4.6 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2014
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Director Kenneth Branagh talks about why Shakespeare and action movies have more in common than you think.
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0:00.0 | Jack Ryan is back. This time, in Jack Ryan Shadow Recruit. It's the fifth film about the Tom Clancy Everyman Good Guy turned hero. |
0:09.9 | This time Jack travels to Moscow to uncover a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy. |
0:15.9 | He's played by Chris Pine with a supporting cast that includes Kevin Costner and Kira Knightley, |
0:21.8 | plus the film's director, Kenneth Branagh, who plays the Russian mastermind behind the terrorist plot. |
0:27.8 | Kenneth Branagh joined Elvis for a conversation following a screening of Jack Ryan's shadow |
0:32.7 | recruit as part of the film Independent at Lackma screening series. |
0:37.4 | Wow, that's a big full house. Thank you very, very much for coming. Thank you. as part of the film independent at Lachma screening series. |
0:39.5 | Wow, that's a big full house. |
0:40.7 | Thank you very, very much for coming. |
0:41.2 | Thank you. |
0:43.8 | There's always so much stuff I wanted to talk to you about. |
0:46.6 | And one of the things I was thinking about, I mentioned to you backstage, |
0:49.9 | is as I was watching this, I kind of thought of, |
0:52.5 | Spy who came in from the Cole, |
0:56.6 | and that kind of sort of gray feeling of lots of dark rooms and sort of like sunless skies and you were saying that wasn't a movie you watched to get ready |
1:00.9 | for this. It was. It's a black and white movie that has a very sort of heavily atmospheric |
1:08.5 | in the way it sort of broods on the preoccupations of the central |
1:12.9 | character and one of the things I said to Chris Pine when we were doing this and one of |
1:18.8 | the reasons I wanted to do it because he was already attached and the script came to me with |
1:21.7 | him attached and I was very excited to work with him was the opportunity to watch him thinking inspired who came in |
1:29.9 | from the coal a lot of it is watching Richard Burton think and react to to the |
1:35.3 | the events of that particular story so also with Harris Zambe Luchos director of |
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