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October 23, 2013
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Director Jim Mickle Reflects “We Are What We Are” to Audiences
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Kenny Miles
I find that you do horror festivals and what’s crazy are those people are some of the nicest and most normal people. The people who make the romantic comedies are the. most messed up.
Based on a 2010 Mexican film of the same name which did well overseas, it played at numerous film festivals as well yet didn’t do too well in the art house market. Two producers approached him thinking he would be a good fit for the remake. They know that his embrace of the horror element is used as a vital back-drop and not the main point. He didn’t want to lose focus and maintain the artistic credibility of his roots.
I didn’t want to fall in the pit falls of many American remakes that butcher the hell out of these films. I was afraid that we sort of fallen into that trap. We had the best of intentions. If we were going to do it so we basically turned the story upside down.
I don’t want it to be that all religion is bad. To take the elements of their past that are good and take the elements of their beliefs that are good and go on with hopefully not taking in the worst parts was the focus. With that being said it’s obvious that they could do that pretty easily.
Filmed in Margaretville, New York, director Mickle has now shot three films in the area. One thing he needed to do was to remind himself it isn’t a vampire movie or zombie movie nor anything supernatural. He wanted it to be based in realism as well as an exploration of religion. He continued the critique of religion by implementing the narrative of nature versus nurture. I think with what’s going on there in the end, it is about the argument of nature versus nurture and are we blank slates that anything can be impressed upon or is it that God gene or once you’ve learned something you cant shake it off no matter how hard you try,” he said.
We Are What We Are is currently playing at the Landmark Mayan and various other theaters in America and around the world.
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