Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole | show | 2003| S1 | Official Featurette
This feature-length documentary traces the journey of the Haisla people to reclaim the G'psgolox totem pole that went mi | dHNzX05kblBMNllnTjd3
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00:00 [screeching]
00:01 There is a fantastical, supernatural element to the story.
00:04 She's not the devil, she's not even evil.
00:06 My character, which is very exciting
00:09 to be able to talk about her, is called Verna,
00:11 which is an anagram for raven, and so I am the raven.
00:15 This was definitely a character
00:17 I could not go halfway with.
00:18 Your life will take a complete change of course tonight.
00:22 She isn't human.
00:23 You could say she's the executor of fate
00:25 or the executor of karma.
00:26 Verna really is a shapeshifter.
00:28 She manifests to each person at the moment
00:30 before their death as they can see her.
00:32 I'm candy.
00:33 You're candy.
00:34 Verna is offering each of these people
00:37 the most honest conversation
00:39 they will ever have in their lives.
00:40 I could have done this just about any way I wanted to.
00:43 People with a lot of privilege and a lot of power
00:45 have an opportunity to do good things.
00:47 I will adopt every cat in here and donate it to an orphanage.
00:51 Or to do bad things, and she offers them an opportunity
00:54 to make a different decision.
00:56 You're the clever one.
00:57 But you shouldn't be here, and you don't have to be here.
01:00 What was really important to me
01:01 was that there was a through line.
01:02 Carla Gugino doing a bunch of roles
01:04 is not of interest to me.
01:06 Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
01:08 Should watch where I'm going.
01:09 What I was really interested in is a character
01:12 who isn't of this world,
01:14 but is able to seamlessly be in this world.
01:17 Always like a raven, looking at things
01:20 from a vantage point, from a perch.
01:22 That's where the sort of supernatural
01:24 and fantastical elements come in.
01:25 You feel it.
01:27 Both of you.
01:28 In the air.
01:30 She sees you from the inside out as well.
01:32 Tell me.
01:33 And don't lie.
01:34 Is that everything you wanted it to be?
01:37 She allows people to tell the truth
01:40 in a way that I think we rarely do.
01:42 Here we are.
01:44 Fuck it.
01:45 I got mine.
01:47 Mike Flanagan mentioned at one point,
01:49 he said, "Each of the Usher family members
01:51 "are like a different instrument."
01:53 Verna is like a symphony.
01:54 That is what he created.
01:56 She might tie the piece together as a character.
01:59 (bell dings)
02:01 (whooshing)
02:03 (whooshing)
02:06 (whooshing)
02:08 [BLANK_AUDIO]