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Stars in "The Art of War" Snipes Talks to
AC Team's Suzanne Kai was invited to participate in a round table conversation with action star Wesley Snipes in Hollywood. She found a multi-faceted dynamo. Wesley, the international star, the film producer, and yes, Wesley, the publisher of hot, new writers. Snipes walked into the room with the energy and charisma of a star, wearing a colorful jacket, and ready to talk about his new movie,"The Art of War" co-starring Marie Matiko ("The Corruptor"), Donald Sutherland ("Instinct"), and Anne Archer ("Clear and Present Danger"). Here are highlights of the interview, which was interspersed with Wesley's laughter. Q: One aspect that makes "The Art of War" interesting and unique is that your character is not the typical action guy... he wants to get out of this racket, and really, he thinks it's going to be this easy assignment and once he finds out what's happening to his partners, that's when he becomes motivated to go on the offensive. The idea that your character is not some James Bond, Rambo guy... He really wants to lead a normal life. He doesn't necessarily want to do this.
And I always try to say to myself, Wes, if you are going to play a character that has all these prerequisites, and it's based on either real experience, or a real occupation or a real person, the people who do that should feel, yes, they should feel like, yeah okay, that's right. That's the barometer in which I set for myself. And then everybody else, we hope they like it. Q: Can you tell us about the genesis of the project? Snipes: Conceptually, I think the project was written with Jet Li in mind, and then they brought it to us??quot;What do you think you guys at Amen Ra Films can do with it?" We said great! We can make a good political suspense who-done-it. Good political thriller, and on top of it we can add the action. Now, the suspense thrillers, I think, work consistently. They are timeless, really good ones. Hitchcock films, you can watch now, you can watch it ten years from now, you've watched it ten years before. Some of the stuff that Harrison Ford does in terms of his political thrillers, you still like them, you still watch them. Then you add the extra element of the action on top of it, man, you got a whole different genre of movies. And then you raise the quality of action films, so people don't go and say, "Oh, another action movie. Oh yeah, mindless action." No, no, not this one. And that's how we put it together. Found Christian, and said hey man, this is what we want to achieve: we want to make it slick, we want to make it make sense, first and foremost it has to make sense, that the story has to be tight, and we need to cast it with some good actors, and then we'll handle all the action parts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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