With decapitations, caffeine-crazed zombies and a katana-wielding Scottish mortician , on the surfaceJim Jarmusch’s last slow-burning masterpiece. But it isn’t. Strip away the genre trappings and they have more in common than you might think . Both take place in small-town America -- in this case the fictional Centerville -- shot not far from Jarmusch’s home in upstate New York.
“There’s an intended blatancy to this film,” he says, responding to the criticism that George Romero had already said all this fifty years ago withJarmusch acknowledges that he is echoing the post-horror master, but says the message is even more important today as the world stands on the brink of ecological collapse. “I’m not generally interested in didactic filmmaking — this is meant to be an entertaining comedy.
planning that Simpson would write the film’s theme song. “I called him, got talking about what kind of songs I wanted it to sound like, referencing artists like George Jones or Patsy Cline, that had a sort of rhythm that we were looking for,” he says. “I am just a big Sturgill fan, and the idea was that it had to sound like a country song from the early sixties that had disappeared through the cracks, and we had ‘uncovered’ it.
Jarmusch is still calm, even lackadaisical, talking about issues that clearly concern him. But there’s a definite hint of frustration. “All these old white men just want to focus on the profit margins,” he says. “Don’t these people have children? I don’t understand how these people can be that venal. How can they allow the mass extinction of species because of the profit margin?”
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