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The coming-of-age sub-genre is \u201cthousands and thousands of hours of TV shows and films,\u201d explained Alec Baldwin Friday night during a talk for his latest Sundance feature production Beast Beast.<\/p>\nThe coming-of-age sub-genre is \u201cthousands and thousands of hours of TV shows and films,\u201d explained Alec Baldwin Friday night during a talk for his latest Sundance feature production Beast Beast.<\/p>\n
So how do you make it fresh?<\/p>\n
Baldwin who serves as EP on the Danny Madden directed and written teenage pic with his producing partner Casey Bader are in the business of shepherding and launching young filmmakers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe see a lot of things. I watch a number of films and I\u2019d say it\u2019s three categories: 20% is either good or great, 20% is horrible, and 60% of it is OK,\u201d said Baldwin at the EW x NRDC Sundance Film Festival Panel Series: TheFutureParty Presents: Beast Beast panel yesterday. Joining him were Madden, his brother Will Madden who stars in Beast Beast as a gun-loving fanatic, and actors Shirley Chen and Jose Angeles. Baldwin and Bader came across Madden\u2019s short, Krista, which Beast Beast is based upon, and they were blown away, followed by Madden\u2019s great script.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I don\u2019t see it on the page, I just walk away. You can\u2019t make a good movie without a good script,\u201d said Baldwin, \u201cWe read this script and said \u2018This is an opportunity.\u2019 All of the characters had their own voice, the dialogue was specific.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beast Beast follows charismatic small-town theater kid Krista (Chen) who finds herself increasingly drawn to Nito (Angeles), the new student in her high school who catches her attention with his impressive skating videos. But their lives become intertwined with that of her gun-loving neighbor, and events reach a breaking point. The film pulls on contemporary themes revolving around teens, social media and guns, facets of the script that wowed Baldwin.<\/p>\n
Said Baldwin, \u201cWhen I was young, the news was a component of media that had its own segregated time slot: you could watch the evening news at 6pm or 7pm and there was a morning paper and there was an evening paper. You didn\u2019t have the 24-hour news cycle that you have now, which the consequences of which is almost like the death of innocence and childhood. Kids grew up when I was younger in a world in which all that was bad, was something that was served up at a certain time and then it was put away. Now, kids are growing up in a world, where it\u2019s all day long on your phone, on TV and on CNN. It\u2019s global warming, and a shooting, and the President is a maniac. And this goes on, and on. It\u2019s a constant bass line, and this drumbeat of this pain and difficulty that everybody who is young has to grow up in that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Baldwin was shared how impressed he was by Madden\u2019s ability to get Beast Beast off the ground as an indie feature.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I first started in this business, it would be \u2018Oh, well, we go to Joel Silver\u2019s office at Warner Bros.\u2019 Instead, it\u2019s \u2018we made a pot of coffee, we did a Kickstarter.’\u201d<\/p>\n
With the costs of indie film and video content declining since the 1990s, raw talent has boomed in abundance online, which has its upsides and downsides.<\/p>\n
Says Baldwin, \u201cIt\u2019s a strange time. Lorne Michaels \u2013who is my dear friend\u2013 made a joke once: \u2018The motto of YouTube is broadcast yourself. Sometime\u2019s it\u2019s nice to have a layer of executives and producers in between you and the camera to make sure that not everybody is really broadcasting themselves.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Continued Baldwin, \u201cBut there\u2019s a wonderful byproduct to the way we do things now where everybody has access to cameras and equipment and can make their own films.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beast Beast is playing in the NEXT section at the Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n
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