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Stephen King is one of the most respected storytellers of his generation – or all -. The prolific word barely covers man’s production, from the first works like “Lot de Salem” to more recent masterpieces such as “Revival”. For decades now, King’s works have inspired dozens of variable quality television films and television. During all these years, King made only one of these films itself in the form of “Overdrive Maxi”, a really crazy piece of cinema with a wild story behind it. At least a small part of this story involves none other than David Lynch.
King recently appeared as a guest “The Kingcast” And discussed the film. Released in the summer of 1986, the film was based on the new “Trucks” from the New “Night Shift” collection. He resumed after a strange comet who passes near the earth, causing the life of trucks and other machines. They quickly start killing people. Most of the story takes place when the Dixie Boy truck stops where a cloth group finds herself trapped. Chaos follows.
“At that time, I was doing a lot of cocaine and I drank a lot,” said King. This explains why King apologized several times of having made the film over the years. The author also explained that Lynch was just filming her masterpiece “Blue Velvet” nearby at the same time.
“I thought I knew how to make films,” said King. “I learned so much” maximum overmultiplied “. It was like this intensive seminar.
The crew, as it turned out, especially did not speak English, which made production on “maximum overdrive” extremely difficult. “The only thing I learned is how to swear in Italian,” joked King. It became a problem when a member of the King crew, the operator of cameras Daniele Nannuzzi, tried to explain why a blow he wanted to accomplish was not going to work. The tongue barrier bothered.
“I had a certain way that I wanted to move the camera and he would say:” No, no, not Stephen! It crosses the line! “I couldn’t really understand it,” said King. “The way you draw a trio is the first year English, and this cross is like a seminar.”
David Lynch tried to teach Stephen King a cinema rule
What Nannuzzi was trying to explain was something called the rule to 180 degrees. I am not a filmmaker, but basically, the rule says that when you turn two people, you stay on the same side of 180 degrees because if you cross this line, it spoils the ability of the public to know where the characters are located Compared to each other and the environment. The people of film Riot made an excellent video explaining it, that you can watch here.
For experienced filmmakers, this is an accepted rule. For King, a writer, it was a foreign concept. Enter the deceased, great David Lynch, who recently died at the age of 78. King came across Lynch after finishing the shooting one day and decided to run this little number of him. Lynch did her best to explain it to King, but things did not go exactly.
“I had finished shooting for the day, and I said,” Can I speak to you for a minute? “He wears his brand white shirt, he had khaki pants, he smoked a cigarette, I smoked a cigarette and I said:” What is the line? “He tried to Explain how, if you have the camera on one side, you can pull the other side, and if you have it, you can pull the other. Really confusing.
The film turned out to be how it turned out, which was a bit of a shipwreck. King was not nice to his work on “overdrive maximum” over the yearsBut the film continued to find something dedicated. The co-host of “The Kingcast”, Eric Vespe, is one of these fan, which triggered the conversation in the first place. If nothing else, it is wonderful enough to imagine that these two legends meet in the 80s to have such a discussion on a cigarette.
You can enter the Collection edition of “overdrive maximum” on Amazon Blu-ray.