{"id":720,"date":"2009-03-12T22:15:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T03:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=720"},"modified":"2012-02-25T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T21:59:30","slug":"tony-stone-bss-271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/tony-stone-bss-271\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Stone (BSS #271)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Stone is the director, writer, producer, editor, and actor of <i>Severed Ways<\/i>, a film about Vikings that opens in limited release on March 13, 2009.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/tstone.jpg\" alt=\"tstone\" title=\"tstone\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1081\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-720-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo271.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo271.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo271.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo271.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=720-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo271.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo271.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 23:47 &#8212; 21.8MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Unsure of whether he wants to be a Viking or not.<\/p>\n<p><b>Guest:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.severedways.com\/\">Tony Stone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><B>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> The many crew positions that Tony Stone worked, music clearance people who keep weapons under their beds, making a film with seven chapters, how a two week shoot went on for three years, not getting the visuals right the first time, motivations for handheld camera work, accepting art as it is, &#8220;Greedo shoots first,&#8221; contemporary slang transposed into Viking talk, <i>A Knight&#8217;s Tale<\/i>, how far filmmakers can go in &#8220;modernizing&#8221; historical settings, the ethics of killing chickens on screen, Ingmar Bergman&#8217;s <i>Shame<\/i>, helpful ways of agitating both vegetarians and meat eaters through cinema, filming a defecation scene, the appropriate constituency of shit for a beautiful shot, Charles Leland&#8217;s <i>Algonquin Legends<\/i>, abstaining from profiling the Abenaki religion, paganism, anarchy, and secular humanism.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B><\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> &#8220;This fish is pretty killer.&#8221;  Well, &#8220;killer,&#8221; as I understand it, is a recent modifier in the English language.<\/p>\n<p><b>Stone:<\/b> Yes, it is.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> And I don&#8217;t think necessarily that the Vikings were using this or that the Nordic tongue had any answer to &#8220;killer.&#8221;  So why the modernization of etymology here?  Is this an inroad point along the lines of the Viking headbanger who likewise appears in this?<\/p>\n<p><b>Stone:<\/b> Yeah.  It&#8217;s that.  But it&#8217;s also that a lot of the times, you&#8217;d watch any period piece or historical film, whether it&#8217;s Romans or barbarians or whatever else, they&#8217;re speaking in semi-Shakespearean accents in their Old British.  It doesn&#8217;t really make any sense.  And everything&#8217;s very formal.  There&#8217;s no reason why, a thousand years ago, they weren&#8217;t just as casual as us and they had their own vernacular.  So this is using a piece of dialogue &#8212; like &#8220;This fish is killer&#8221; &#8212; is basically more of an accurate translation in my mind.  Because you&#8217;re taking whatever their vernacular was and putting it into our vernacular.  So you understand the tone and the vibe of what they&#8217;re actually saying.  So I actually find there&#8217;s more accuracy in it.  And we&#8217;ve just been so beaten down by the traditional Hollywood stupidity of how I&#8217;m dealing with history in films.  So that sort of explains why I wanted it there.  And of course, the film is trying to bridge the past and the present.  And so it&#8217;s maing these characters have mannerisms that maybe the dude walking down the street has.  Or whatever else. It&#8217;s trying to just not have it be this distant, far off, separate thing.  It&#8217;s trying to make it more current and now.  And it is with us.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b>  But on the flip side, there is a certain point where it becomes ridiculous; i.e., <i>A Knight&#8217;s Tale<\/i>, for example.  In which you have the Nike swoosh in the Middle Ages.  Do you remember this film?<\/p>\n<p><b>Stone:<\/b> Yeah, I do.  I do.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> I mean, it was totally ridiculous.   It was fun.  But at the same time, one does not look to this for verisimilitude.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Stone:<\/b> &#8220;The Boys Are Back In Town.&#8221;  Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> So the question is: how far can you go with this?<\/p>\n<p><b>Stone:<\/b>  Yeah, that&#8217;s interesting.  <i>A Knight&#8217;s Tale<\/i>.  I forgot about that.  It&#8217;s been a while.  But yeah.  They use modern music.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> &#8220;We Will Rock You.&#8221;  Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><b>Stone:<\/b> Then there&#8217;s that amazing part where they&#8217;re going back to London.  And the Thin Lizzy song comes in.  &#8220;The Boys Are Back In Town.&#8221;  (<i>laughs<\/i>) It&#8217;s very incredible.<\/p>\n<p><b>Correspondent:<\/b> I mean, if we&#8217;re talking about Hollywood stupidity, I&#8217;m wondering how&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Stone:<\/b> Yeah. Obviously, there is a level of absurdness to it.  I&#8217;m not going to deny it.  But I think the film is sort of rebellious in a way.  It&#8217;s trying to set up a dialogue.  I don&#8217;t know.  But in a way, like I&#8217;m saying, it&#8217;s sort of modernizing the Viking.  Making him a current character.  Making him more similar to somebody maybe you know is the idea.  I&#8217;m just getting away from that wall that&#8217;s usually put up in terms of dealing with historical material.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1082\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-720-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo271.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo271.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo271.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo271.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=720-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo271.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo271.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 23:47 &#8212; 21.8MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Stone is the director, writer, producer, editor, and actor of Severed Ways, a film about Vikings that opens in limited release on March 13, 2009. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Unsure of whether he wants to be a Viking or not. 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