'New Moon' Director Chris Weitz Dishes On Movies Within The Movie
During Bella's three-way date, Weitz sneaks in over-the-top fake movie posters and titles.
BEVERLY HILLS, California — If you believe what you read, "New Moon" directorChris Weitz may be on the verge of retiring from film. Lucky for his fans, then, that the "Twilight" sequel has several Weitz mini-movies buried within.
As we first reported months ago, in the soon-to-be-classic "New Moon" scene where Bella Swan takes Jacob Black and Mike Newton on a "three-way date," they attend a mindless action film called "Face Punch." Before attending the movie, Newton recommends a "stupid" romantic film called "Love Spelled Backwards Is Love," and sharp-eyed fans will notice several other fake flicks advertised on movie posters throughout the pivotal scene.
Recently, we caught up with Weitz and got him to spill the beans on where all these goofy movie ideas came from.
"Well, if you are going to use a poster for some movie, it either has to be an existing movie that is cleared by law, which means it has to be something that ['New Moon' producer] Summit [Entertainment] released at one point" or a movie that doesn't exist, Weitz explained. "[Mostly,] those are names of movies I made up and then the production design department made up posters for them."
The first of these had such a funny title that actor Michael Welch, who plays Mike, even included it in his dialogue, which veers quite a bit from Stephenie Meyer's written depiction of the "New Moon" moment.
" 'Love Spelled Backwards Is Love' was one of my list of 10 possible romantic-comedy titles," Weitz said. "I think it's kind of the stereotypical worst-romantic-comedy-in-history title.
"There's also one called 'Hours of Tears,' which is supposed to be a very serious European art-house film; I made that title up as well," Weitz said, grinning. He urged fans to watch for its poster, along with another movie about parking meters.
The funniest thing about the fake movies, Weitz remembered, is that when he was trying to invent cheesy titles for bad movies, he kept discovering that most of his ideas had indeed been made into real movies. Take, for instance, "Face Punch," the name of the movie-within-the-movie that they see.
"It was hard to arrive at ['Face Punch']; I made up 10 titles for action movies, and eight of them didn't clear because they had already been used!" he marveled. "I was trying to make up the stupidest titles possible, but they had been made."
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