Michael Douglas and David Smick on the Timely Doc ‘America’s Burning’

David thick He was trying to make a decision on the title of his new documentary on the section in America. “I had a number of naked smart titles,” he said. It is the executive producer Barry Levinson who told him: “Dave, have you ever heard of” dangerous naval animals on the Cape Code coast “? No, because they call him” jaws “. So, I went with” burning America “, because I thought: You can photograph it.
SMICK was first shown “Burning America” a year ago at the Tripika Film Festival. Narrated and executive produced Michael DouglasThe film includes interviews from characters such as James Carville and Lyon Baneita because it separates the dispute between people on both sides of the political spectrum. It also promises optimism about urging people and politicians to seek unity. At the time of the first show, Douglas notes, “Perhaps it was more seen as the top. Now, it reduces the estimate of what happened since then.” But still, he says, “The message is more important and stronger than ever.”
SMICK, Chairman and CEO of Johnson SMICK International, as well as a selling director and director, is trying to maintain this positive view. “I am optimistic about its nature, but there are many challenges that we did not face a year ago,” he said. “We discover that we are one stagnation away from the main social disorders if we are not careful.” SMICK refers to “underlying economic anger” on the distribution of wealth in the country, although our economic system is “envy of the world.”
“We are doing a great job, except that we have this basic potential cancer that can spread, and all we need is severe stagnation, and then we will see the anger comes out of wooden works, and people will be shocked, I think.”
Although the world has changed since the premiere of the film, thick says he has no need to add a conclusion or code for its flowing release. “I didn’t think it should be updated,” he said. Although it is more open to exploring the topic, perhaps longer. “You go to these offers, and I see the audience. I wish I had two hours because there are many problems that you can reach, but you are limited. I think if we expand them ever, it would be because someone came and wants to do a chain.”
The man who wandered in the “Good Granding Grandeen” line was brought in the Oscar -winning performance of Wall Street as a genius blow, but thick also got a welcome collaborator with Douglas. The actor came on board when the director sent him early to the film, as SMICK presented his own novels. “He had an excellent voice comment for him. They didn’t need me,” he noticed. Do not agree to your thick, “I have a very soft sound, not very special. I said to my producer, Ian Michaels,” we must see if there are celebrities that can dominate this. I said, “I would like to have someone to focus, but I left to the center, annoyed by the fact that the country is very divided. I think there is part of the country that we can never agree with, but someone [people] It can be behind a movie that can be represented about 70 % of the country or 80 % of the country. He was the first in the list Michael. “
Douglas was taken immediately. “I have resonated with all the concerns I possessed, which was the loss of our middle class, and the huge amount of money that the Supreme Court allowed in our elections and our lack of both parties. I thought it was a good message, if I could help in supporting it.”
Thick wants everyone to know that Douglas’s balance has been obtained – not only read a text and made some promotions. “His contributions were enormous,” he said. “I would like to say, minimum, that its changes are 55 % more powerful in the movie.”
Douglas says he was happy to introduce his name to the film to attract attention. “But the interesting and frustrating point was the difficulty of getting the distribution,” he revealed. “There were a lot of companies that, when we showed this at first, I think it was a little afraid of it. Although the attempt was really from the two parties, and the lack of a party or another.” He adds: “Glory to Amazon, and I am happy because they came [how] Expect what was coming. ”
Despite the filming of one of the greatest film heads in Rob Riner in 1995, “The US President”, Douglas says he is not interested in ambition to the White House in real life. “No, no, I am 80,” he said. “This is the magic age.”
Thick, for his part, says that people are constantly coming to Douglas to repeat the lines from the movie. “This should happen like 10 times a month,” he says.
Douglas responds, “In the” American President “, I knew how the text has ended. This is the big difference.”