Summary: The Duplass Brothers got into making movies by making movies. Some called it Mumblecore, but it should really be called The Nike Method. Their latest, The Do-Deca-Pentathalon features two brothers locked in an epic (yet secretive) sporting event that they take exactly as seriously as it needs to be taken. But as Mark and Jay Duplass explain in this interview, no matter the type of movie they make, they’ll always focus on the small moments and emotions that arise from them. One example? Battleship. If given the blockbuster, here’s how the pair would have delivered the littoral explosion-fest Mark Duplass: I think inherently, Jay and I are interested in feelings. We’re obsessed with feelings, so even if we made…Battleship…and that was the script we were heading into, we would start gravitating toward how the men on that battleship felt towards each other, and we’d probably have a whole scene about someone angry with someone else because they keep leaving hair on the soap. It’s just what we like. So, we’re almost helplessly and hopelessly ourselves. It’s not an attempt. It just comes out. Right. So specifically, how would you change Battleship? You’d add more hair on the soap, and what else would make it a Duplass Battleship movie? Jay Duplass: I think that it would be, more specifically, as opposed to events that are happening outside, missiles being launched in the air, missiles being launched in the water… MD: We’d hear those in the background. JD: …but we’d be focused […]
