Many actors in self-created projects and indie films trip all over themselves in their eagerness to go for the jugular and play up to the dark side, depicting callousness, cruelty or evil with panache, but Webber’s Mark is more mortal than that, more human, more carefully pitched - and, most importantly, more like us. (The party also contains another false note, Michael Cera playing a particularly unconvincing variation on himself, wandering about a Hollywood Hills home with a pistol.) A play date, and tentative real date, with another single parent ( Shannyn Sossamon) turns disastrous, with Mark interrupting a tentative make-out by breathing “I love you” into her ear over and over with the desperate ardor of a man repeating something so strenuously and seriously that it’s like he’s trying to wish it into truth. “Two hours” at a party becomes a drunken overnight stay, with Isaac left in the hands of a stranger. (I am not going to praise a two-and-a-half-year-old child’s “performance,” but I will note that Webber works around his co-star’s in-the-moment utterances and needs so smoothly, and so swiftly, as both a director and an actor that you can’t help but be impressed by their interactions.) And when Mark decides to teach a hard lesson at the end, in part so he can learn it by teaching it, you feel his devastation.īut along the way, and interestingly, every time you want to feel sorry for Mark, he does something that makes you want to smack him. the World 10 Years Later Can you believe it’s been 10 years since Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs the Worldexploded onto the screen Neither. Webber apparently shot the film catch-as-catch-can with his actors, and the loose, improvisational style works for many of the film’s scenes. Mark Webber Looks Back On Scott Pilgrim vs. Mark’s a loser and a bit of a deadbeat - and, at the same time, shell-shocked and shattered. ‘Touchy Feely’ Director Lynn Shelton’s Top 10 Favorite Films Of 2013 Include ‘Her,’ ‘Short Term 12’ & More
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