{"id":244287,"date":"2011-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/film-review-interview-with-hesher-creator-spencer-susser\/"},"modified":"2011-05-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T07:00:00","slug":"film-review-interview-with-hesher-creator-spencer-susser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/film-review-interview-with-hesher-creator-spencer-susser\/","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: Interview with “Hesher” creator Spencer Susser"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Writer, director and editor Spencer Susser lines up a shot for "Hesher." (Courtesy Newmarket Films)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Por Scott Marcas |<\/strong> Cr\u00edtico de cine SDUN<\/p>\n

Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is loud, unwashed, uncouth, violent, and has just taken up residence in the garage of a highly dysfunctional family grief stricken over a sudden loss. He\u2019s also the character that makes \u201cHesher,\u201d Spencer Susser\u2019s feature debut one of the freshest and funniest black comedies to come down the pike in ages. Susser, a 34-year-old writer, director and editor, is the only American member of Australia\u2019s Blue-Tongue Films, a collective responsible for last year\u2019s Academy Award nominated \u201cAnimal Kingdom.\u201d And if this film is any indication, expect to hear a lot more from him in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cHesher,\u201d which also stars Natalie Portman, Rainn Wilson and newcomer Devin Brochu, starts its exclusive run on Fri. May 13, at Landmark\u2019s Hillcrest Cinema.<\/p>\n

Scott Marks:<\/strong> Hesher is the most original character I\u2019ve seen come down the pike in some time. How would you describe him?<\/p>\n

Spencer Susser:<\/strong> Hesher is someone who was basically abandoned as a child. We don\u2019t really get into his backstory, but to me he was someone whose parents didn\u2019t want him. He\u2019s put up these walls to prevent himself from ever being hurt again. He\u2019s become a kind of a proper loner. His relationship with this family and this grandmother (Piper Laurie) gives him a chance to feel again and to actually care. Here is this person who doesn\u2019t judge him at all. It\u2019s critical. It\u2019s the movie.<\/p>\n

SM:<\/strong> Everything you just said in your description of Hesher applies to T.J. (Devin Brochu)as well.<\/p>\n

SS:<\/strong> Hesher is the kind of a guy who has nothing to lose. He doesn\u2019t care if he lives or dies. T.J.\u2019s mother just died and he feels like he has nothing to lose. You can\u2019t hurt this kid. He\u2019s been hurt way worse than anyone could ever hurt him physically. When Hesher first meets him there is something about that quality in T.J. that reminds him of himself.<\/p>\n

SM:<\/strong> What a joy it is to watch Piper Laurie act. She still works occasionally – she was in \u201cHounddog\u201d and \u201cThe Dead Girl\u201d\u2014but not often enough for my taste.<\/p>\n

SS:<\/strong> I was so honored to get to work with Piper. She totally got it. In a lot of ways she got it just like the grandmother in the film. Part of what I think is important about the movie in terms of maybe a message (if there is such a thing) is to listen to what people say and not how they say it. Hesher has a lot of really good stuff to say; it just so happens that every other word out of his mouth is \u201cf***.\u201d If that turns you off, you will never actually get to hear what he says. Everything has a double meaning in a way. So when Piper read it she just saw past all that stuff.<\/p>\n

SM:<\/strong> It\u2019s been a long time since I was this impressed by a debut feature. It would break my heart if you suddenly followed this up with the next X-Men sequel. I don\u2019t care how many zeros there are on the paycheck, please don\u2019t go over to the dark side. Thanks for two great hours in the dark.<\/p>\n

SS:<\/strong> Thanks so much. It\u2019s hard to get independent films made, so you make them to avoid doing what (Hollywood) keeps doing. You can\u2019t market independent films like you do the big blockbusters. I\u2019m a huge believer in trying to make things fresh and do stuff that you don\u2019t see every day. I want to make movies that I want to see.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Scott Marks | SDUN Film Critic Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is loud, unwashed, uncouth, violent, and has just taken up residence in the garage of a highly dysfunctional family grief stricken over a sudden loss. He\u2019s also the character that makes \u201cHesher,\u201d Spencer Susser\u2019s feature debut one of the freshest and funniest black comedies to […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":244288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Film Review: Interview with \"Hesher\" creator Spencer Susser","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}