- Title: USA: ROBIN WILLIAMS TALKS ABOUT HIS LATEST FILM " ONE HOUR PHOTO"
- Date: 11th January 2002
- Summary: PARK CITY, UTAH, UNITED STATES (JANUARY 11, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) WIDE /PAN MOUNTAIN TOP VIEW OF PARK CITY MID VIEW OF PARK CITY SLV PEOPLE SKATING AT ICE RINK WIDE OF SKIERS ON THE SLOPES SCU SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL BANNER PARK CITY, UTAH, UNITED STATES (JANUARY 14, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) SCU SOUNDBITE (English) ROBIN WILLIAMS SAYING: "Hello, Brad, Jennifer.
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- Location: PARK CITY, UTAH, UNITED STATES AND VARIOUS FILM LOCATIONS
- Country: USA
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- Story Text: Robin Williams is introducing his new film "One Hour Photo" to patrons of the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. He talked to Reuters on Monday (January 14) about the film, the festival, and Prince Harry's alleged predilection for pot.
Amid a snowy backdrop, with skiers on the slopes, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah is heating up.
Studios are signing deals and what was once an film festival of indie unknowns is fast becoming a star-studded hang out where the actors like Robin Williams show their films.
Williams, at Sundance promoting his new film "One Hour Photo,"
commented on the celebrity culture at the Robert Redford-fronted indie fest.
"Hello, Brad, Jennifer. Good luck, you little lovely couple -- you with your washboard abs and you with your beautiful, perfect hair. I wish you the best as I slide past you on the way down, playing dark, nasty people, I wish you all good, good luck here in Sundance," Williams said is one of his thousand funny voices. He was commenting on Jennifer Aniston who brought her hubby Brad Pitt to the premiere of her new film "The Good Girl," which was just picked up by Fox Searchlight, who beat out Paramount classics and other suitor for domestic and various other rights to the picture.
Meanwhile, Fox Searchlight has already got a deal for "One Hour Photo," a film by writer/director Mark Romanek and stars Oscar-winning actor Williams as Seymour "Sy" Parrish who works as a film developer in a one hour photo shop.
Sy, as he looks through the family photos he processes, begins to focus on the pictures of a particular family who are repeat customers. Sy sees the loving embraces Nina shares with her husband Will. He witnessed every family holiday and vacation. He has watched their son Jake grow from infancy to a nine-year-old boy.
Williams says it's a character that many people can relate to:
"Basically his life is his work, but for him photographs, and specifically developing photographs, he finds it a craft and he's also, he's lonely. He's very much isolated, but still functioning in society as a ... trying to find another life, once again, through these pictures. I can only say that he seems very normal, almost hyper-normal until you find out other things about him."
Photo development is a responsibility Sy Parrish takes very seriously and he also takes seriously the content of the photos. Sy cherishes this family's moments more than the family living them. When he realizes their perfect life isn't as perfect as he thought, Sy's dreams are shattered and just as he takes responsibility for preserving the perfect moments, he feels obligated to correct the imperfect ones.
"Everything is not idyllic with them. And even he finds out and it ruins his fantasy. It's like when you find out ...
what? Prince Harry smoked pot?!" Williams joked.
Despite Williams' comedic talents, his role in "One Hour Photo" is a serious one -- similar to the serious role in "Good Will Hunting" that won him an Academy Award. Williams will, no doubt, meet up with his "Good Will" collaborators, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, at Sundance. They're there with their independent film contest, Project Greenlight. And those are just a few of the big names that prove the Sundance Film Festival is no longer a small gathering of unknowns, but a now a commingling of those looking for their big break and those who got theirs years ago.
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