Empire_Australasia_-_February_2017

JOSEPH HOWES — 6

HIGH NOON

What do you think the film was about?

It was about a cowboy [Will Kane] who

was worried about this evil cowboy

coming back, because the main

character was worried he would kill

him because he sent him to prison.

But why wouldn’t anyone help the

marshal in his fight?

They were afraid they would get killed

as well.

Would you have helped him?

Not really...

Why not?

I don’t want myself to be killed.

And what if you were the marshal?

At one point he’s leaving town but then

he changes his mind and comes back,

saying he’s never run away from

anything. I’d probably just continue with

my run, to be honest. Because I don’t

really want to kill myself in a battle.

So what do you think of the marshal?

Did you like Will Kane?

He’s brave and bold and doesn’t think

about how he might hurt himself.

At the end, you were quite nervous.

Why was that?

If he was going to win or lose or not, it

just made me tense.

Did you mind that it was in black-

and-white?

No, not at all. I think I might prefer it in

black-and-white than colour.

What would you give the film out of

five stars?

Four, because I don’t see the point in

going back for guns. Why would you go

back to fight? Is it the most precious

thing in your life? Why would you go

back for it?

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ILLUSTRATIONOLLYGIBBS

ilm school. On the other hand, if you can’t go to
a ilm school, ilms can now be made very
inexpensively. It’s tough to get a job in a major
studio, but it’s easy to get a job, if you look
around a little bit, on one of these low-budget
independent ilms. And I would say get a job on
that ilm, for two reasons. One, you’re going to do
your job and get paid. But number two is, look
around, see what everyone else is doing on the set,
and learn production while you’re actually in
production. I started as a writer and saw what the
directors were doing, and I thought, “I could do
that!”, and I did. It was a little shaky at the
beginning but you learn as you go along.

What’s next? Please tell us you’re working on a
Death Race 2075!
I don’t have another Death Race but I’m working
on a treatment, I have an idea about the leader of
a country who loses faith in the traditional system,
feeling that it’s all corrupt, and decides that he

doesn’t need the courts any more, he can decide

who is guilty and he just kills them. So that’ll be a

futuristic science iction ilm based somewhat on

what is actually happening today.

DEATH RACE 2050 IS OUT FEBRUARY 22 ON

DVD AND BLU-RAY.

Left: Roger Corman in the 1970s. Below left:

Burt Grinstead as Jed Perfectus in Death Race

2050. Below right: Folake Olowofoyeku as

Minerva Jefferson. Bottom: Manu Bennett as

the Death Racer Frankenstein.

Weird, camp, gory, hilarious

— Corman’s latest iteration

of the Death Race series

forgets the grittier versions

to recapture the B-movie

spirit of the 1975 original.

The cars and SFX are

gloriously crappy, and

Malcolm McDowell is great

as a Trump-esque president.

Not exactly good, but fun.

DEATH RACE

2050

★★★★★

RATED MA15+

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