Enter the Void

Gaspero he takes you into it in a way that um I'm sure a lot of people will hate it I mean people see the guy is like speaks to you the most right now no I don't I mean there's a part of me like so I'm getting ready to make a film called mosquito ball this war movie and and these young kids went through I don't if you know the Pacific Theater campaign and with the battles of teroa and gu canal and okanawa these were hellacious awful [ __ ] violent fights and the Japanese wouldn't surrender and they believed in Emperor horo so they would fight to the death you know Bonsai charges and sepo they would kill themselves before they would be taken prisoner and in World War II you had these young American kids who in our movie were were college football players who Pearl Harbor hits and they immediately joined the military and they have to go fight these [ __ ] horrific battles like just people's throats getting blown out and torturing and killing and suicides from the locals suicide and and so to me one of my goals with this next film is I want to try because been a lot of good War films and just like there' been a lot of good westerns and I always said well I never got to make one so I want to try and make a western I was American primeval been a lot of Great War films Great War films but I never got to make one so my take is to try and bring people into the experience of how but you have you have made more films World War II oh okay you're right I made I made Lone Survivor but I never made a World War II film um and there have been a lot of great ones you know from Private Ryan to hexel Ridge to Private Ryan was probably the first one that was realistic though right yeah I mean like that that opening which which is like why Steve for anyone like you ask me who I look up to Steven Spielberg he is so far in ahead the goat of my business to think that the guy who did [ __ ] Jurassic Park in ET God love V Close Encounters then it's like oh you know the and Spielberg was always like the good boy of the of the cuz it was like he was growing up with like Copa and Scorsese and Michael man and these guys were like [ __ ] yeah they were just [ __ ] hard partying [ __ ] um you know hard drinking hard drugging hard [ __ ] filmmakers and Stephen was like the good goody good kid right like well little stepen he's got to go home soon put the wait let don't keep the girls in the garage Steven's still here and then Stephen's like oh really and then he makes um you know Saving Private Ryan or Schindler's List Right and these move like he goes oh really you don't think that I know how to do War Saving Private Ryan was like another [ __ ] level level um so to answer a question Spielberg who I look up to still the most and I think he's on a whole another level based on the the scope of his work but Gasper if I'm thinking about the thing I got out of watching this film that I would try and use in my own way for for mosquito ball for a war movie is the idea that you want to try and take the audience into what it would have been like to try and get on that [ __ ] beach and you know in the case of my film there was a battle of teroa and they were trying to get a Shore but they [ __ ] up the tides so they came in and the tides were too low so those landing craft all got stuck on the tides uh on the coral reef and they started getting bombed by the Japanese who were hiding in the caves and they brought their big guns out so these kids were getting blown up before they even got to the [ __ ] beach they were getting killed and their you know best friends are body parts are floating in the [ __ ] oceans and there's sharks and there's giant surf waves and they're getting rocked before they've ever even got so I'm like okay well how do I want to show that what like like and I look at a movie like Climax and I'm like all right different horror bad acid bad LSD but my God you're W like I had to stop watching it and I knew I was coming in here today and I'm starting to have an anxiety attack because I want to get sleep to do you know to talk to and I'm [ __ ] watching this movie and I'm all worked up because he's taken me into the [ __ ] experience and he does his movie into the void is about DMT and he you into the experience of DMT so for anyone um who doesn't ever want to experience and you know things that you've touched and I've touched watch you can watch these movies and you can be like whoa I I'm getting that feeling and that's a that's a real accomplishment for a filmmaker and and I it's immersive so watch it but don't let your wife I'll definitely watch it do not let I don't want this [ __ ] I don't want don't worry she's not going to it is not for everyone I can't talk her into watching anything that she doesn't want to watch she only watched American primeval because I told her it was going to be really awesome and she loves Yellowstone in 1883 but there was like we're violent it's [ __ ] violent well it's also it's that time period