Prince Avalanche | movie | 2013 | Official Featurette
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Transcript
00:00 (electronic music)
00:02 - What about the equal time agreement?
00:08 - The equal time boom box agreement
00:09 doesn't apply in this case, all right?
00:11 That's just for recreation.
00:12 - Oh, come on!
00:14 - Hey, I'm Paul Rudd.
00:15 - And I'm Emil Hirsch.
00:16 - Please check out Prince Avalanche,
00:19 now available on demand.
00:21 - Prince Avalanche, watch it now on demand.
00:25 - I suggest you start the machine, keep it going.
00:28 - Alvin. - Yeah?
00:30 - You have your tool belt on backwards.
00:32 - The film has a very traditional odd couple dynamic,
00:35 and so you kind of have these two characters
00:38 at odds with each other, and in a lot of ways,
00:40 the comedy comes from the kind of conflict that they have.
00:42 - You didn't write in it, did you?
00:44 - Yeah, I worked the puzzle.
00:46 - Oh, don't do that.
00:48 Don't do that, please.
00:49 It's a collector's item, it's an antique, it's rare.
00:52 - I think this character that I'm playing, Alvin,
00:56 is a guy who thinks he knows who he is,
01:00 and I don't think he really does.
01:02 - You gonna hit it in with your hand?
01:04 (gentle guitar music)
01:07 - Lance is a very immature young guy
01:10 who doesn't really like nature.
01:12 They hopefully kind of learn
01:16 a little something from each other.
01:18 - You know that paint is poisonous, right?
01:25 - The title Prince Avalanche actually came to me in a dream.
01:28 This was just a title that I thought
01:33 had such a mystery to it, and an intriguing quality,
01:35 and kind of a poetry that I thought,
01:37 well, let's make something called Prince Avalanche.
01:40 - I reap the rewards of solitude.
01:42 - I get so horny out here in nature, don't you?
01:47 - Enjoy your hot fish.
01:48 - I've known David for a long time,
01:51 and I always wanted to work with him,
01:53 and this sounded like a really cool experiment.
01:58 (screaming)
02:02 - He's the kind of director where he'll call you up
02:05 with a week's notice and say,
02:06 we're gonna make this amazing, crazy movie,
02:09 and you believe him, and you believe in him.
02:12 - We filmed after a fire had really affected this area
02:18 in and around Bastrop, Texas.
02:20 The canvas of the film is the backdrop of a forest
02:22 that has been charted, so it's the toothpick sticks
02:25 of burnt pine trees, as far as the eye can see,
02:28 for miles and miles through the hills, and the ashes,
02:30 and the rocks, and the rubble.
02:32 - It looked like nothing I'd ever really seen.
02:34 It was the impetus for actually making the whole movie.
02:38 - You shouldn't smoke.
02:39 - I know it's bad for you.
02:40 - No, I mean, you shouldn't smoke.
02:43 - You look stupid.
02:44 (laughing)
02:46 - In a lot of ways, it kind of mirrors
02:50 what the actors are going through themselves,
02:51 kind of the rebirth of heartbreak,
02:54 and the rebirth of guys trying to reinvent themselves,
02:56 and really find their voice,
02:59 just as you kind of see the little blossoms and buds
03:01 of the new forest about to engage in the old forest.
03:05 - How did you live your life up to this point
03:08 without knowing how to gut a fish,
03:10 or build a tent, or tie a knot?
03:11 How did you live this long and not kill yourself
03:14 for being such a boring loser
03:16 who thinks he's so smart and good at everything?
03:18 For your information, you're not!
03:20 (dramatic music)
03:23 - I thought that this job would be good
03:25 for me to figure out a way to be happy with my life.
03:28 - I'm just gonna be an adventurer.
03:30 - "Prince Avalanche."
03:33 Watch it now on demand.
03:35 (upbeat music)
03:38 (upbeat music)