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Making Soulflakes
Whole Hog Films' first project was always going to be ambitious. Since everyone was putting in time and effort on top of their normal jobs, a sense of fun and ambition was vital. A fusion of art house quirkiness with mainstream, crowd-pleasing ingredients - car chases, fist fights, gun fights - was the intended formula for an entertaining movie. Whole Hog essentially made the film for themselves and hoped audiences would have fun watching the result. |
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"Every now and then, usually as we drove along the same long, straight stretch of road in the New Forest, we'd joke about how it would be great to shoot a road movie there. Neither of us was particularly serious about it, as I recollect."
- Martin Griffin |
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"I've always loved the Coen brothers stuff, but I didn't realise that I needed to make a film until I saw 'O Brother, Where Art Thou'. I loved it and I realised that it was essentially about three guys on the run. I thought we could do that."
- Simon Cooper |
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"Since nobody was paying us, we thought we'd make a film that we'd like to see. We were warned off doing all those elements that we wanted to tackle - like guns, blood, chases and so on. With no money it's a gamble, but we wanted to roll the dice anyway".
- Adam Barton |
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"It's a romantic-comedy-supernatural-horror-road-movie-art flick. Basically a genre picture - but which genre is anyone's guess."
- Robert Patton |
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"We thought we'd try and please ourselves. We were confident we could do that, but whether the film would be any good was another matter enbtirely. Since finishing the film I'm pleased to say that most people thoroughly enjoy it."
- Si |
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