WebSteve Zirnkilton (born Stephen Morgan Zirnkilton; August 18, 1958) is an American voice actor and former politician from Maine. Saturday Night Live is known for being a very political show, in the sense that they lean hard into political sketches. Then we kind of gave them notes, and they kept going out and coming back. For someone so indecisive, no one reflects on her relationships or a day at work as eloquently as Meredith Grey. And she uses like garden shears, and she cuts my thumb off, and then blood sprays everywhere. It gives the human race, potentially, a lifeline of some kind at the end. I needed Shane and Chris to help me with the graphics. She is the modern urban professional's pope, holding it together on the outside (mostly) while falling down flaky, analytical rabbit holes on the inside -- and threading the show's plots by writing her titular column in voice-over form. Confused yet? Waking up without his memory in the films opening moments, he spends the movie unsteadily unraveling its mysteries, manipulated by those around him, and drifting between two personalities: The childlike, amnesiac Boxer, and the fictional hardass Jericho Cane. The anonymous narrator treats the show as some sort of inter-class social experiment. [9] Zirnkilton received a Legislative Sentiment for his work from Maine State Representative Chris Greeley. We spoke to Cloris Leachmans management, and they were like, Well, Cloris doesnt work for scale.. Marguerite Derricks: When I got the original script, it was almost like a musical. Priscilla Elliott: I mean, I know its kind of a mess, and I also dont really care? TNT aired consecutively all the episodes produced, and shortly after the airing of the last of them, announced it had picked up the show for a ten-episode third season. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Then they started working on Southland Tales, and I got a call one day that theyre shootingDee was helping him shoot all of the pre-roll. It premiered on NBC, and according to them, the series takes a "raw and authentic look" at Los Angeles and the lives of the LAPD officers who police it. Ron Howard is practically a member of the Bluth family, even though his identity as a narrator is never explained on "Arrested Development." But had that musical number not worked, the whole ending of the movie would not have worked, with Pimps dont commit suicide, the connection between Roland and Pilot back in Iraq, none of that would have tied all together. It was in the Cannes Film Festival, starring Dwayne Johnson and all these actors. And at the center of it all: a pair of twins, Roland and Ronald Taverner, played by Seann William Scott. Nick Name Your Narrator Your Narrator as seen in a selfie that was taken in August 2020 (Your Narrator It was obviously a challenge to get made, because it involved a gigantic cow that could speak with limited vocal dialog. Priscilla Elliott: I think the idea was to do something that was going to be commercial, was going to save his career on some level. We had the most insane shooting days. That was another little splinter photography thing, with the real news anchors of KTLA in Los Angeles doing their alternate history 2008 news stuff about the MegaZeppelin and US-IDENT. Then we threw a fake Fourth of July party at my uncles house, and it was, I think, May of 2005. One of Southland Tales most memorable moments remains a car commercial for a fictional, alternative fuel source SUV, the Treer Saltair. We flew to Abilene. He both absorbs content, and is interested in things, and then also has a very strong personal vision. And we didnt have the rights to the song. It feels like if Im going to have riots and the Hindenburg explosion with some kind of futuristic dirigible, I need to justify all of that. The show originally aired on April 9, 2009 on NBC network, and continued its run on TNT network from the start of its second season until the fifth season concluded on April 17, 2013. Marguerite Derricks: The end of the world. Is America the pimp nation? Its always been kind of compromised. Lets put Hustler on the tank. I did the [decal for the] Hustler tank, and then I got to ride around on the beach on the tank all morning. To his surprise, it was accepted. The first draft was very much like an L.A. crime caper. We were firing off massive weapons in Hermosa Beach, where a lot of very wealthy people live. Every episode of "Desperate Housewives" begins with the polished Mary Alice Young recounting the events of Wisteria Lane. And, you know, we made it look at least that good. Acting. Zirnkilton is known for providing the opening narration of all US shows in the Law & Order franchise. He was hired by series creator Dick Wolf. [vague] Zirnkilton has also provided voices for Family Guy and The Rugrats Movie. He was a narrator for Faith Rewarded: The Historic Season of the 2004 Boston Red Sox. Priscilla Elliott: We rented [the giant toilet in the neo-Marxist hideout]; it was from a music video. Another big change is coming your way in Jane the Novela you can expect a brand new narrator. So literally, the whole movie was hinging on this one musical number in my mind. In 2005, Dwayne Johnson was still simply, in most peoples minds, The Rock. Although hed starred in 2002s The Scorpion King, his most recent film, Doom, had been panned by critics, and he was still years away from attaining his now-secure planets biggest action star status. Justin, I need you to narrate this movie. Southland Talesisnt for everybody. He used to produce with his company, RSA, these BMW commercials that were like short films, and they would bring in big directors to direct them. Each actor gives the dialogue their own spin, with some playing it completely straight while others camp it up. I certainly hope we do, and that we will. WebThe protagonist and narrator of Raymond Carvers Cathedral is a middle-aged unnamed man. I was going to maybe take a nap, and these German tourists suddenly parted ways in front of me. "Mars" inhabitants began calling themselves the Marshmallows, which became a signature part of the campaign to make a movie after the show was canceled. We had one hour to get those SWAT vehicles on and off some of the most expensive, high-security real estate in all of Los Angeles. He can also be heard debating his murder skills and willing himself into (non-)action with thoughts like, "I will not kill my sister, I will not kill my sister, I will not kill my sister." [For Sarah,] doing the talk show just before, it let her work out the comedy chemistry with the other actresses. Even fictitious addresses aren't within the range seen on the real street (e.g. Web94%. We rented two Sony HD cameras. I was leaning hard into that. Southland Tales is the second film fromRichard Kelly, released five years after his cult hitDonnie Darko. Each viewing offers new insight, plus the chance to look for the many socio-political, literary, and musical Easter eggs Kelly in the film. And he brought me over and said, I want you to rent Kiss Me Deadly and watch it, youve got to watch Ralph Meeker. Im like, Oh, my god, Ive got to go back and watch that.. And I just thought, this ties into [Wallace Shawns character] Baron von Westphalen, and the clean energy, and the idea of his fleet of vehicles. Death is inevitable, and in some ways beautiful, she reminds us. All you have to do is come sign a release. And Richard, really, god, he was so supportive of everything I did. The dialogue in the film is fantastic, even when its ridiculous (or rather, because its ridiculous). Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch After I saw the first cut of Richard Kelly's "Donnie Darko" (2002), I was left dazed and confused, but somehow convinced that I might have seen something. It was the best time. Zirnkilton was the narrator for TLC's Code Blue: New Orleans and the syndicated series Arrest & Trial. Were just going to go for it.. It was so much fun getting to show up with this roundtable of incredible comedy heroes coming in. Richard Kelly: I dont think we even had to rent out the bar, because we knew the owners. No one wanted to pay for this, because we were scraping together whatever dollars we could get out of Sony to fix some of the MegaZeppelin stuff at the end, and just make the ending look at least presentable, at a base level. Menu. And everything Angela Chase feels is real: her crush on Jordan Catalano, her tension with her longtime friend Sharon, the prosaic pressures of high school. [12][13] Zirnkilton narrated Ruby Ridge: Anatomy of a Tragedy on Investigation Discovery. Which all stemmed from a meeting that I had with Benicio del Toro, maybe six months before I met with Dwayne. Thats the universe that your movie exists in, the Kiss Me Deadly universe.. At Fandom, we like hunting for offbeat and off-the-wall films and TV shows that might become your own secret treasures. Hes done dozens of movies, huge blockbuster movieshe did Mulholland Drive for David Lynch. From Kevin Arnold to Gossip Girl, we selected narrators -- often omniscient, (almost) always poetic -- who have defined the past few decades of television. And in the shadow of 9/11, it just felt like I needed to swing for the fences, and try to address all of the things that were happening in the world. Priscilla Elliott: We were doing the scene where they steal the ATM, and at the same time the blimp is going to get shot out of the sky. So what is a narrator? One is the 2008 stuff, in the three days that lead up to Boxer, Krysta, the Taverner twinsa lot of the characters are out in Lake Mead in Las Vegas, and then they all come to L.A. Richard Kelly: After 9/11, that image felt much more weighted. I was trying to do that on Southland Tales. And every stunt that you see in the movie, whether its a squib, whether its an ice cream truck flipping over, or an ATM being ripped out of a wall, practical stunts and effects stunts: Every single one of those that you see in the movie, we had literally one take to get it right. He factors into one of Southland Talesmost notorious sequences, a psychedelic musical number where Abilene ambles around an arcade lip-syncing to The Killers All These Things That Ive Done, accompanied by a chorus line of women in platinum wigs and vinyl nurses uniforms. One of the films most repeated lines is Pimps dont commit suicide, which is spoken by Boxer Santaros/Jericho Cane in reference to the films complicated body-double plot, and then becomes the final piece of Timberlakes narration as the time-split Roland/Ronald Taverner clasp hands, initiatingpossiblythe end of the world. With jaunty nonchalance, he shepherds us from one mishap to the next, revealing subtle twists, zany motivations and anecdotes like Gob's dead childhood parakeet. In Southland Tales, Justin Timberlake plays the omniprescent narrator who represents the trauma of Iraq War veterans. It might have been Vidiots; it was one of those video stores that has every movieyou know, when those used to exist. When Veronica Mars called herself a "marshmallow," a legion of fans was born. I will continue working on Southland Tales until the day I die, whether or not we get to make more of it or not. Which I love. Part of the joy of being a fan is finding odd and obscure gems that you end up falling in love with. Dwayne is very good at taking direction. I dont think I ever put something together that he didnt like, or wanted any kind of changes. This omniscient narrator's matter-of-fact observations supply many of the comedic effects, heightening the adult fairy tale about a pie-maker who can revive the dead. But to build an SUV with CGI wasnt crazy. It can be a provocative moment in the movie. Now I know what it's like to be a chick.Cooper: If you want to be a chick that's a different bar. I suppose my biggest concern is that one of my favorite shows (i.e. I remember us discussing it being like a nod to the classic MGM musicals that we were doing, because there was a classic look about the girls [in the All These Things That Ive Done sequence] all having that kind of Busby Berkeley look where they all had the same wigs and they all looked alike. Ive always loved him. Southland Talesis an apocalyptic tale set in the future of 2008. I am so grateful that someone gave me the resources to make this. 2023 TV GUIDE, A FANDOM COMPANY. Hes so in command of his entire body, and all of that training from working in pro-wrestling, and delivering those huge monologues, and doing very precise acrobatics and hitting all those marks. We were shutting down the Santa Monica Pier, sections of it, for hours at a time. And then Shane was working on some of the news screens, because we had shot a lot of the KTLA news footage. We handed those out to Cannes, we handed out copies of the graphic novel. Which then leads us to some deep form of existential dread. At the subway station you wait fifteen minutes on the platform for a train. Your internal diary is jealous of her introspection, which underscores the themes of every "Grey's Anatomy" episode. Across four seasons of NBC's successful comedy, his internal monologue tells us things like, "I knew something was wrong because no self-respecting man would ever turn down a talking monkey." isn't exactly omniscient -- he is often clueless about what is entering others people's brains. He started eating this enormous meal, and I had my whole visual presentation there to show him. Weve got a charred mold of Dwayne that we made. Its a partial mold of his bodyit might have been [from] Scorpion King. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sx5D76nLdk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvMkIQKroM0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7eJJLlVD8o, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWF_OGev1V0, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dVYtVrycks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApPpqv7k3Bw, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLsyUZ2nGbo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IU73PlEwS4M, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKsWbuobBss, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sU9n8hswx6A, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBq_J08srVA, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W23NIyNbnM, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3WtWUarFTs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR5fJPv1ge8, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YY9VKPCOK4, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6dIGQfMhQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCFwJWAMCSE, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvfoqJdJpKM. WebSouthland - Full Cast & Crew 77 Metascore 2009 -2013 5 Seasons NBC Drama TV14 Watchlist Where to Watch A rookie and a seasoned no-nonsense cop are at the center of Club talked to Kelly and a few others involved in the making of Southland Tales about its creation, its legacy, andagainst all oddsits future. TNT began negotiating a move from NBC shortly after the show cancellation, a process that took nearly a month. WebA subjective narrator is a narrator who sees events through a character's eyes and knows the thoughts and feelings, and viewpoints of that character. Institutions and surveillance and all of these ideas, so very much in the world of Philip K. Dick. Youre just taking money and flushing it down the toilet if youre not leaving it inside the movie. About Us | Copyright Inquiry | Privacy Policy | Contact Us. With jaunty Ditto the raconteurs of "Revenge," "Burn Notice," "Red Band Society" and any other series we omitted. Your mom's a tough lady. I was able to map out the choreography and the style from reading the script and hearing Richard talk about Justins character, what he was going through, what this kind of music-video-like number was that we were doing. And then I thought about how were telling the story about Iraqi war veterans and PTSD, and how thats interlaced into the story and thinking about veteran suicides and that horrible reality that we face, that our veterans face. Beyond the basic plot, viewers can also develop theories on Southlands mythology and the impending apocalypse. Southland (stylized as SOUTHLAND) is an American crime drama. He said yes, right away. Cops are suppose to hold the line between chaos and civilized society. Why do the police/detectives show each other the number 4 on their fingers at various times. Yeah, I thought that was okay.. In an effort to cut costs (and save time on the films highly truncated shooting schedule), Kelly and a small team began assembling footage well ahead of principal photographyincluding the nuclear attack on U.S. soil that kicks off the movies plot. We had already recorded Teen Horniness Is Not A Crime.. WebImprove your language arts knowledge with free questions in "Who is the narrator?" He has been the announcer for the Kennedy Center Honors, and for the past seventeen years he has been the onstage announcer for the Top Cops Awards in Washington, D.C.[citation needed]. I always told him, if I was going to get a vanity plate for your car, thatd be what it was: SCP CRP. This is well into 2007, where Im in preproduction on The Box. WebA narrator who is limited to reporting in third person on only one character can do so close or from a distance. There are a lot of interesting characters in the Southland of Los Angeles, likeamnesiac actor Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), ex-porn star turned talk show queen Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), and twin brothers Roland and Ronald Taverner (Sean William Scott). So in the prequel, you see all of that, all the characters, all that stuff, drama unfolding over those three days in animationits literally the characters animatedand then it takes Boxer all the way to the point where, on the early morning of July 3rd, he wakes up on the beach. Club are serious journalists, we felt moved to ask Kelly about one particular bit of stock footage included in the Doomsday Scenario Interface sequence. No cause of death reported. Steve Zirnkilton (born Stephen Morgan Zirnkilton; August 18, 1958) is an American voice actor and former politician from Maine. One of the most challenging things aboutSouthland Talesis that it walks a fine line between self-awareness and pretention. XOXO. 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