Posted by Jerry Cavallaro in Actors, Director, Exclusive, Featured Articles, Headline, Indie, Interview | 2 comments
WAMG Interview: Marianna Palka and Jason Ritter
One month ago, I posted my first movie review for this website. It was for the film Good Dick, which is an extraordinary independent film that I highly recommend. I truly loved it and cannot wait to see it again. It is extremely well written, beautifully directed and the acting is top notch. Jason Ritter delivers his best performance and it put him towards the top of the list of actors I’d love to work with. I was lucky enough to attend a showing that Marianna Palka (writer, director, producer and lead actress) and Jason Ritter (lead actor and producer) were in attendance for a Q & A following the film. I was able to meet them and they happened to be two of the nicest people I have ever met working in the film industry. They agreed to an interview on the spot and we tried to set something up. After several failed attempts, I finally spoke to them last week. Our 15-minute interview turned into almost an hour long conversation about Good Dick and independent films in general. The following is the audio from the interview, almost in it’s entirety. The only stuff I removed were some technical errors and the part where we discussed a special contest. But if you check the contest page or click here, you can find out how to win the signed Good Dick poster we talked about. Enjoy!
Jerry Cavallaro -Â www.AreYouStuckLikeChuck.com
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- DVD Review: ‘Good Dick’ | We Are Movie Geeks - [...] A few months ago, I named Good Dick on of my favorite films of 2008. I attended a screening ...
I absolutely loved this movie! Pulls me in, every time I watch it!
I found myself thinking, how these characters are very much like the people I see around me everyday. Complicated, interesting, emotionally twisted, flawed human beings, just looking to be loved and accepted.
Some people, like the character that (Jason Ritter) plays, are an open page when it comes to giving their heart away. Eager to take risks at love, even if that means opening your heart to a shit load of pain. Like an addict, knowing full well the consequences that will have to be paid seeking out this alluring drug, nevertheless, they are driven to seek it out, like a moth to the flame…
Ritters character, has an innocent charm about him. A boyish lovable quality, that is undeniable.
You can clearly see the flaws in him, but strangely, you look away, taking a risk on him, in the chance that he will redeem himself once again. He is relentless in his efforts to win the heart and attention of this emotionally damaged, and yet highly intelligent woman. How many people do we know like this is our own lives??? These irresistible charmers that seem to win their way into our hearts against our own better judgement?
Palka's character, clearly a highly intelligent woman, who can verbally bash a man into a bloody pulp, has been verbally and sexually abused by her father, since she was a little girl.
We later see her emotionally unravel, as Ritters character, bravely tries to pull her out from her isolated world, breaking the routine of her dysfunctional patterns.
I am constantly reminded as I watch this film, how real these characters are! They are not unlike so many of the dysfunctional people around us. Misfit, loners, abused and wounded by the predators of this world, left to cope with the damage they leave behind.
It takes tremendous courage to open your self up to love and healing, after such abuse and betrayal of trust, has been broken. These two characters portray that there is hope in the healing power of love!