More bits from Maddin’s commentary below – all quotes are his.<\/p>\n
“It’s the only one of my movies that I can actually re-watch with any degree of comfort.”<\/p>\n
Louis Negin as Dr. Fusi [below] – cast because he reminded Guy of certain silent actors, particularly a guy who was cut from Greed<\/em>. Also because of his hands, of course. Appeared in Rabid<\/em>, played Truman Capote in 54<\/em>, and returned as the blind seer at the intro\/outro of Saddest Music<\/em>. Amy Stewart as Veronica\/The Ghost [bottom screenshot] – “the ultimate child brunette.” She returns in My Winnipeg<\/em> as a Maddin.<\/p>\n Tara Birtwhistle, replacing Alice Krige who got sick at the last-minute. Wearing “the same cheap wig I had Isabella Rossellini wear a few weeks later”. Tara played Lucy in Dracula<\/em>, here portraying Guy’s aunt Lil and renamed Liliom, “a name I obviously borrowed from Fritz Lang’s Liliom<\/em>, not even knowing that Liliom was a male name until I watched the movie after filming this.” On aunt Lil: “I thought I would give her a character in this movie that she never got a chance to be… In real life she’s just a sweet, bridge playing, tea-sipping spinster.”<\/p>\n Melissa Dionisio as Meta [below], “the result of some kinda local star search here” “Sorry for all the blurry intertitles. I forgot to focus the camera. … I usually use intertitles to clarify the plot, but here they seem to be just giving everyone an eye-ache.”<\/p>\n Darcy Fehr, playing “Guy Maddin” [below], appeared in Hospital Fragment<\/em>. Chas, the impotent patriarch. “I’d been reading a lot of Euripydes, which I devoured like Mexican comic books”.<\/p>\n “That’s my mom, by the way.” [below] She was made to wear blacked-out glasses so she couldn’t see the autobiographical shame on display. “We filmed this scene without my mom really knowing. I have yet to explain it to her”. David Stuart Evans, as semi-evil police\/hockey captain Shaky, also appeared in Clive Barker’s The Plague<\/em>.<\/p>\n Mike Bell as Mo Mott, of course played the engineer in Nude Caboose<\/em>. Mo Mott is the name of an actual Winnipeg hockey player.<\/p>\n Victor Cowie as Maddin Sr. [below], appeared in Careful<\/em> and Archangel<\/em>. “The first actor I ever hired.” Premature Maddin biographer Caelum Vatnsdal (the awesome fake Jesus in Heart<\/em>) has a bit part somewhere.<\/p>\n “I like it when stories artificially tie up loose ends.”<\/p>\n The DVD also has a behind-the-scenes bit on Brand Upon The Brain!<\/em> and a bunch of new shorts. FuseBoy<\/strong>, a 2005 short set at a fuse box starring Guy, Shaky, Mo and Dr. Fusi from Cowards<\/em>. Dr. Fusi’s performance is actually edited in from his audition tape, also included here. Rooster Workbook (aka The Cock Crew)<\/strong>, a mental blend of female nudity and roosters, the closest thing spastic Maddin has done to porno (closer than both Sissy Boy Slap Party<\/em> and Nude Caboose<\/em>). I don’t know who played the nude girl because he lists 13 actors in the credits. Zookeeper Workbook (aka Maldoror: Tygers)<\/strong> involves a man getting eaten by a tiger and a woman juxtaposed with a dog. Chimney Workbook<\/strong> has a girl welding, bunch of birth metaphors and I couldn’t tell you what else. Somehow related to Rooster Workbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Guy Maddin: “My editor John Gurdebeke and I, hoping to release the powerful nectars of remembrance, have attempted to cut the film using a facsimile of the way we visit memories: We skip past the drab routines and the overly familiar events of yesteryear in our haste to arrive at our favorite and still potent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84,64],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-guy-maddin","tag-silent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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