Episode 51: Collateral

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team discusses Collateral’s gritty portrayal of Los Angeles at night, the film’s tightly-contained plot and structure, and why the dual character arcs of Max and Vincent feel so complex.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:09.1	Today we're talking about collateral, the 2004 film directed by Michael Mann, screenplay by Stuart Faddy.
0:15.7	I'm joined by the lessons from the screenplay team, Trisha Arand. Welcome back.
0:19.4	Thank you so much. Hello, everybody. Brian Bittner. Hello, hello. And Alex Cayeros. Hi. So collateral, I've been thinking
0:27.0	about it, and it might be one of my favorite movies. It's kind of like low-key, always been
0:32.0	like up toward the top. And now that I've been thinking about it more actively, I think it is just one of my favorite
0:38.1	movies.
0:38.6	It has this really, really great type script.
0:41.7	And I feel like it's one of the best showings of Michael Mann.
0:44.3	And there's this sort of like emotional connection I have with Michael Mann.
0:48.8	And the first time I saw like Heat and this movie and all these things.
0:53.9	So revisiting this was really fun because it's always fun to watch this movie.
0:58.9	But also realizing how much I appreciate it and that it continues to age well is really
1:05.8	impressive to me.
1:06.5	So there's all those things that I want to talk about.
1:08.7	But the video for collateral is special for also several reasons.
1:13.1	First of all, it was the first midpoint video, which need I say more.
1:18.5	But it was also the first time I collaborated with someone else on a script, Brian, this was your first script for lessons from the screenplay.
1:28.5	It was.
1:29.4	Tell us about that.
1:31.5	Yeah, I had written an article about collateral, which you read and we sort of were talking
1:37.1	back and forth about it.
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