There was some “better” and “worse” in Harpoon’s shooting schedule, too. At a certain point, we also realized that we had to try it, for better or worse, just to see how it would play out.” There were lot of discussions between me and Mike and through doing test screenings with our friends and seeing how well or how badly some of those tonal shifts were going to work. We can think that we’re in a love story, but then minutes later in can turn into a tragedy or horror… Between the writing, the shooting, and the editing, it took a year and a half to get everything together. “What we always kept coming back to is, we need a movie that feels like how life really is. “It was very important to us that all three of these people have what their characters believe are justified reasons for acting” they way they do.Īt turns survival thriller, dark comedy, and straight-up horror movie-with some disgustingly effective gore thrown in at key moments, sure to please the Fantasia crowd- Harpoon is easily a movie that could give its audience tonal whiplash, something Grant and his producer Michael Peterson were determined to avoid. “There’s nothing fun for an actor, or for a writer, or a director to play the quote-unquote bad guy,” he elaborates. But some people straight-up don’t want to recognize or discuss that… You don’t have to like these people, but you have to understand who they are.” Aside from the more extreme examples of rotten behavior to be found in Harpoon once the situation gets really bad, “A lot of the things that these people do to each other feel pretty common to me. “It’s been so interesting-in a lot of the Q&As, people are either onboard” (pun, I assume, unintentional) “with following these kinds of people, or they vehemently reject the idea and are dismissive of these characters because of the bad things they do,” says Grant. There’s violence, there are lies, there’s betrayal… and that’s before the whole “facing imminent death together” thing forces Richard, Jonah, and Sasha to either work together (and/)or splinter further apart. “My original pitch to my producer was Knife in the Water by way of ‘Seinfeld,’” says writer/director Grant. Oh, and as their boat breaks down in the middle of a day trip and they’re all trapped at sea without food, water, or a way of communicating with the outside world. Rounding out the cast is the voice of Brett Gelman (“Fleabag”), narrating the devolving relationship between the trio as old wounds fester and new ones come to light. There’s Richard (Christopher Gray), a preppy daddy’s boy sporting khakis, a fashy, and a raging set of anger issues Jonah (Munro Chambers), a woe-is-me type who leans more than a bit towards the “Nice Guy” end of the spectrum and Sasha (Emily Tyra), Richard’s girlfriend, desperately trying to keep the peace between the two ostensible best friends despite some questionable behavior from her own past. In Rob Grant’s Harpoon, screening on Saturday, July 27 at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival, the company is different: Three lifelong friends who secretly can’t stand one another. In Life of Pi, the poor castaway at least gets to hang out with a rad-as-heck tiger. If the movies-or, y’know, basic common sense-have taught us anything, it’s that being lost at sea isn’t fun.
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