Screaming Huckabees

[b.miller]

thanks, youtube.

this is incredible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_OyW71AJ8E

and this one's even better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9iEm2qdJpE&NR

[mmm skyscraper]

Both removed by user.

could you describe them?

[grady]

Damn! I want to see those clips! Here is the description I was able to locate after a quick few google searches.

from the following site: http://hollywood-jester.com/archives/11190

But the drama is not over. The car scene takes several more hours to shoot, and as the sun fades, the accumulated tension erupts. Ms. Tomlin begins shouting at Mr. Russell: she is unhappy with the way she looks. She wants to try the scene a different way. She taunts him with a few expletives and curses at the other actors too. Their patience worn, the other actors laugh at her outburst.

Later, unfolding himself from the back seat of the Chevrolet, Mark Wahlberg jokes that his next project will be a nice, easy action film.

and then a little bit more

And then Ms. Tomlin is berating Mr. Russell again.

This time, the director turns on her angrily, calling her the crudest word imaginable, in front of the actors and crew. He shrieks: ‘’I wrote this role for you! I fought for you!'’ Mr. Russell ends his tirade by sweeping his arm across a nearby table cluttered with production paraphernalia. He storms off the set and back on again, continually shouting. Then he locks himself in his office, refusing to return. After an uncomfortable, set-wide pause, Ms. Tomlin goes in to apologize, and Mr. Russell returns to the shoot.

Unbeknownst to both of them, a member of the crew has videotaped his tirade. The recording makes its way around the Hollywood talent agencies. Asked about the incident later, Mr. Russell says: ‘’Sure, I wish I hadn’t done that. But Lily and I are fine.'’ For her part, Ms. Tomlin admits that both she and Mr. Russell lost control. ‘’It’s not a practice on his part or my part,'’ she says. ‘’I'd rather have someone human and available and raw and open. Don’t give me someone cold, or cut off, or someone who considers themselves dignified.'’

This must be the Zen part.

[b.miller]

i was linked from a guy who saw it on defamer:

http://defamer.com/hollywood/david-o-russell%27/tomlin-vs-russell-the-i-heart-huckabees-outtakes-245292.php

hopefully the clips will pop back up. they're pretty amazing. the first is Lily Tomlin blasting off in a car scene with Hoffman and Huppert and Wahlberg sitting there like children having to listen to parents fight, then the second starts with Tomlin yelling again then cuts to Russell going absolutely batshit crazy. It really doesn't do justice to describe it.. you just have to see it.

[grady]

They're back, but who knows for how long. The second clip is really the one to watch though. Wanna see a primadonna go on a fucking tantrum.

The first clip is available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlhKsizs62c

The second clip is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I79ytf15fYQ

[the mongoose]

No wonder the movie sucked.:)

[viddy]

I've heard David O. Russell was a nutball. Now I see what people have been telling me about. sheesh. I got this clip in an email as a quicktime file.

[grady]

Those clips are all gone again!

[GforGroove]

OMGGGGG!!!!!!!!

fucking nutz ahaha... !!!


huckabees couldn't have better outtakes...
love it 1000x more.. LOL..


im seeing them in daily motion with no problem

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1hvs5_david-o-russell-screams-at-lily-tom

[koisk]

http://www.zberry.net/bin/ihh1.flv
http://www.zberry.net/bin/ihh2.flv

You can view them with this: http://www.martijndevisser.com/blog/article/flv-player-updated

[Strangelet]

is it not unsettling to anyone else that all the actors just walked away while this madman is berating a woman and throwing things around her?

[b.miller]

they were probably used to it.

[grady]

b. miller is probably on the right track here in regards to actors being used to behavior like this from directors.

I point everyone in the direction of the following book.

Rebel's on the Backlot (http://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Backlot-Directors-Conquered-Hollywood/dp/0060540176) by Sharon Waxman.

Waxman is the LA correspondent for the NY Times. This book is a somewhat cursory, reportage, but very enjoyable snapshot of the filmmakers that gained prominence in the post-Tarantino world of Hollywood in the mid-90's. The book focuses specifically on Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher, Spike Jonze, David O Russel, and Steven Soderbergh.

It's a very illuminating portrait into the creative individuals responsible for the very prominant films that emerged in the later half of the 90's, specifically, culimnating in the stellar year that was 1999.

There are digressions to other individuals including: Wes Anderson, Kimberly Clark, Darren Arronofsky, etc. However, the primary thrust of the book is the director's listed initially in the first paragraph.

If you happen upon the trade paperback copy, there is an additional appendix with some added reporting by Waxman on the production of I Heart Huckabees. A majority of this section is repetition from the pieces published in 2004 prior to the film's release, however, for those that didn't read those pieces in the NY Times, they provide a more piercing glimpse into the hysteria/madness that is the creative process of David O Russel expounded upon in some of the book's prior sections.

I don't want to make this seem like a damn amazon review, but the book is really worth a read, especially if you like any of the following films:
Fight Club
Boogie Nights
Magnolia
Out of Sight
Being John Malkovich
Three Kings
I Heart Huckabees
Punch-Drunk Love
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rushmore
Pulp FictionThe book provides wonderful jewels of anecdotal information on each film's respective production that more than likely was omitted by studio PR dept's in attempt to paint their writer/directors in the most praising and golden shining light possible.

[GforGroove]

is it not unsettling to anyone else that all the actors just walked away while this madman is berating a woman and throwing things around her?

did you saw the other clip? Lili is a madwoman too, especially with Dustin Hoffman.

It's not new David O'rusell it's a prick i mean look at his white suit = jerk
but.. usually in great movies is like this, they can't handle their geniuses haha..

I think she realkly fed him up to do this AWSOME scene.

[kagenaki koe]

is it not unsettling to anyone else that all the actors just walked away while this madman is berating a woman and throwing things around her?

in the other clip (another scene before this), you dont see or hear the director all that much. it was a scene where the actors were in a car, the camera was set up right outside the drivers side so you could see the driver, Hoffman and tomlin in the front seat, wahlberg in the back behind tomlin (naomi watts was behind the driver but out of the frame).

tomlin was cursing at the camera (looking and pointing directly at it) fuck you fuck you fuck you......then about halfway thru the clip you hear naomi watts chuckle, tomlin quickly turns to her and yells "well fuck YOU too!:D

[grady]

Michael Showalter and Paul Rudd recreate the fight.

link (http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/video/michael_showalter_paul_rudd_reenact_i_heart_huckab ees_onset_blowup_56061.asp?c=rss)