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Welcome to The Treatment.

I'm Elvis Mitchell.

A film I like to think of as being a combination of design for living in American

graffiti finally is available in the intended version by its director, Mark Christopher. That film

was 54, which was released initially in 1998 and had hints of a much more interesting and

denser narrative. It's set in Studio 54. During its peak era, just as it was on its decline,

the film stars Brian Phillaby, Breck & Meyer, Salma Hyack, and in a really interesting performance,

Mike Myers, as Steve Rebell, its writer-director is sitting across me. First of all, Mark, thanks so much for being here.

Thank you for having me. And the film really, especially in this version,

feel kind of like Design for Living and American Graffiti. Talk about the intent of the film,

well, you know, actually... And with a bit of cabaret thrown in. Yeah, well, cabaret is,

was really one of the inspirations, and we actually pay homage to it. In a few scenes,

we kind of do a shot for shot homage in a couple of places. But very much cabaret

because it is about this world on the edge of falling apart. It's a world on edge. It's a world

an exciting, fun world, right? The Weimar Republic or the end of the 70s. And at the heart of it is a

love triangle between two men and a woman. Which is why I said design for living. Yeah. Yeah. So very much

Cabaret really influenced it. And it was, you know, Bob Fosses is one of my favorite filmmakers.

And that film was a film that I made my crew watch endlessly and so that we could

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