\nOne of the big reasons why he chose to make Collateral<\/em> was the way Stuart Beattie\u2019s script captures an entire story in a very short period of time. The whole movie is \u201clike the third act of a traditional drama.\u201d He likes how it doesn\u2019t go backward to offer more detail into these characters\u2019 lives, and instead we\u2019re just catching them at this moment. (I like movies that movie in real time or that all the action takes place during a short, specific time frame.\u00a0 Movies with those parameters seems to really move and probably because of necessity to get the story told. – Craig)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nVincent is being intentionally rude upon first entering Max\u2019s cab, but it\u2019s not because he\u2019s a jerk \u2014 he\u2019s testing Max to see if he\u2019s a man with an aggressive streak. Had he been, Vincent would have quickly changed cabs. (And we just thought Vincent was rude.\u00a0 It’s these little touches that make viewing a movie repeatedly fun. – Craig)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nHe and Cruise worked out where exactly Vincent came from, and while nearly none of it is mentioned in the film their collaborative backstory is pretty detailed. \u201cIf he was in a foster home for part of his childhood, and he was back in public school at age 11, that would have been sometime in the 70s. He would have been dressed very awkwardly. He would\u2019ve probably been ostracized \u2019cause he\u2019d have looked odd. We postulated an alcoholic, abusive father who was culturally very progressive, he was probably part of Ed Sadlowski\u2019s Steelworkers Local, he was a Vietnam veteran, he had friends who were African-American on the South side of Chicago. The Checkerboard Lounge is thirty minutes away on the Calumet Skyway. The father was probably an aficionado of jazz. There was a great jazz scene on the South side of Chicago, but it\u2019s almost as if the father blamed the son for what happened to the mother. The father never tutored the boy in jazz\u2026\u201d And so on. (Look at the attention to detail!\u00a0 Funny thing is there are other actors who’d be like, let’s do the scene, I don’t need the background stuff.\u00a0 – Craig)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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