Mark Murphy Director Q&A 2 | Transcript

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Transcript:
Interviewer:
Hello everyone we're here today with Mark Murphy for another instalment of our Q&A sessions. This time around, we're just going to get to know Mark a little bit more, so Mark, how are you? Are you good?

Mark Murphy Director:
I'm very good thanks how are you?
Interviewer:
I'm good thank you.
As a director yourself, who are some of the directing Heroes that you have, who inspired you or whose movies you always go rush to see?

Mark Murphy Director:
Well I mean it's it's a bit of a cliche, but obviously Steven Speilberg, I think is an influence for everyone in the film industry, but I guess outside of him, there are a few. Tim Burton, the film that I saw that made me want to work in film was Tim Burton's Batman in 1989, I saw that several times, and it was like okay, this was my moment when I was like “This is what I want to be doing”, so I guess Tim Burton is one of them. Although, since the Planet of the Apes film he did it's sort of went down. I sort of feel like Helena Bonham Carter is the curse on that one, that's when they met and she was in all his films afterwards. David Fincher, anything he does I'll make sure I see. I still regard Seven as his best work and also Alien 3, I know no one else likes it but I love it. Terrence Malik just because of his interesting story, and I think Thin Red Line is truly one of the greatest films made. Lastly used to be Michael Mann, Last Mohicans and The Insider were incredible films, and then he just went downhill with Ali, so he's sort of off my list. But for a time he was one of those people that whatever he was doing, I'll go and watch.

Interviewer:
I know you mentioned Spielberg, do you have a favourite Spielberg movie?

Mark Murphy Director:
Yeah, well my favorite movie of all time is Jaws. I know for a lot of people it's like, “Really? A shark film?” But if you actually watch the film it's a masterpiece of character interaction. The three men on the boat. Yes, it was officially the first Blockbuster, the first film in America to surpass a hundred million at the Box Office, although when you count inflation a lot of films did that before. We think of Blockbuster these days and they tend to be sort of generic cookie-cutter action films, Marvel films but if you watch Jaws now, you'd actually see it as a much different film. That and Indiana Jones in the Last Crusade, I think is a fantastic film and then obviously Schindler’s list is pretty good as well.