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January 24, 2010
Failure!
I'll have more to write about Sundance as a whole later on, but right now, we're ninety minutes out from the world premiere of Lovers Of Hate. I'd say that it's so surreal that it's not even surreal, except that it's not. Is it wrong to say that it feels strangely appropriate? Maybe I can get away with saying that, since I'm not the director.
An anecdote: during the Austin leg of the shoot, I cut together the title sequence of the movie for the cast and crew's viewing pleasure. As temp score, I used the theme from Raising Arizona. Aside from the fact that it was instantly recognizable as such, it worked perfectly - so perfectly that there were doubts we'd find anything as good.
But then when I flew down to Austin last summer to work with Bryan on trimming his first cut, he suggested we drop in Power (Failure), a song by Kevin Bewersdorf. I dragged it into the timeline, replacing the Coen Bros. cue - and there it's remained ever since. It was perfect. So perfect that the opening sequence has hardly changed since that day, and Kevin ended up composing the entire score. If we hadn't used that song, I don't think the movie would be what it is, and we probably wouldn't be here today - it was the piece of the puzzle we didn't know we needed until it was in there.
So here, for your listening pleasure, is that song: Power (Failure) by Kevin Bewersdorf. With any luck, this will become the anthem of Sundance 2010.
And now I'm off to the screening!
Posted by David Lowery at January 24, 2010 4:40 PM