{"id":363,"date":"2008-05-21T12:17:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=363"},"modified":"2012-02-25T19:11:59","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T00:11:59","slug":"ralph-bakshi-bss-214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/ralph-bakshi-bss-214\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Bakshi (BSS #214)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Bakshi is the director of such films as <i>Heavy Traffic<\/i>, <i>Coonskin<\/i>, and <i>American Pop<\/i>.  There is also a recent book, <i>Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi<\/i>, now out that collects his work.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/missbear.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"missbear\"  align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_88\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-363-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo214.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo214.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo214.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo214.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=363-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo214.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo214.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 43:33 &#8212; 39.9MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of the Show:<\/b> Caught in a musical daydream.<\/p>\n<p><b>Guest:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralphbakshi.com\/\">Ralph Bakshi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> The role of music in Bakshi&#8217;s films, making good films without a lot of money, emotionally correct songs, daydreaming, Bakshi&#8217;s record collection, the original idea of using Led Zeppelin for <i>Lord of the Ring<\/i>, Leonard Rosenman, Bakshi&#8217;s relationships with composers, Andrew Belling&#8217;s <i>Wizards<\/i> score, the &#8220;Maybelline&#8221; sequence in <i>Heavy Traffic<\/i>, artistic freedom, why Bob Seger&#8217;s &#8220;Night Moves&#8221; was the final song in <i>American Pop<\/i>, the relationship between writing fast scripts and revising in animation, the ending of <i>Heavy Traffic<\/i>, subconscious symbolism, the use of long shots and extended takes, Sergei Eisenstein, <i>Aleksander Nevsky<\/i>, giving Thomas Kinkade his first big break, on <i>Fire and Ice<\/i> not being a Bakshi film, using imagination with pre-existing visual elements, rotoscoping, getting the little artistic details, Edward Hopper, designers vs. montage, operating in the present as an artist, being honest, <i>The Last Days of Coney Island<\/i>, the impending collapse of America, Barack Obama, burning out, American avarice, and Bill Plympton.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/b> <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> I wanted to ask you about music in your films. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s certainly important in American Pop. You pilfered from your record collection for that, as well as the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Maybelline\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sequence in Heavy Traffic. And there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a Niggerman\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from Coonskin, which you wrote. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m wondering if you did this because you have an aversion to Carl Stalling-style orchestral music.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bakshi:<\/b> First of all, I love music. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always loved music. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve loved various kinds of music. Music is part of our lives. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s part of the soundtrack that what we all grow up with. Especially in my day. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know today. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so many things going on. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m talking about yesterday and my day, which are the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. Music is so emotionally important to the movie. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just as important as anything else. If the song is emotionally correct for a scene, the scene plays better. Or the scene plays better than it would have with a different song. So music is so critical to movies. I chose songs that I knew emotionally worked with these scenes that I wrote. Because whenever I listened to music while either driving in a car or sitting at a bar or listening to Coltrane or Billy Holiday \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you daydream. If you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t daydream to music, then you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not listening to good music.<\/p>\n<p>(Lengthier excerpts from this program can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/interview-with-ralph-bakshi\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/entertainment\/2008\/05\/animator_ralph_bakshi_on_why_a.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_89\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-363-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo214.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo214.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo214.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo214.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=363-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo214.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo214.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 43:33 &#8212; 39.9MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ralph Bakshi is the director of such films as Heavy Traffic, Coonskin, and American Pop. There is also a recent book, Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi, now out that collects his work. Condition of the Show: Caught in a musical daydream. Guest: Ralph Bakshi Subjects Discussed: The role of music in Bakshi&#8217;s films, making good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_90\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-363-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo214.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo214.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo214.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo214.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=363-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo214.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo214.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 43:33 &#8212; 39.9MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1085],"tags":[372,110,373,377,374,9,379,376,375,370,371,378],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}