William H. Macy Has A Big Pitch That Shows How Violence Plays Out
“I’ve tried to sell this a couple of times,” William H. Macy said on Wednesday’s episode of the Films To Be Buried With podcast, hosted by Ted Lasso Emmy-winner Brett Goldstein. “I wanna do a thing where, you take three episodes to have you fall in love with one of the major characters and then shoot him.”
The catch: the character doesn’t die.
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“But don’t write him off the show. And every week, you can see what a bullet does to a human body. You can see how it wrecks his marriage. You can see how he gets infections. You can see how he has to learn to walk again or use his hands again. You can see the deep, dark depressions,” Macy said. “Let’s tell the truth about it, because I swear to God, you kill one person, there’s nothing more dramatic than that.”
Macy said he considers most movies too violent.
“You kill 18 people, it’s just porn,” he said. “The only thing you can do to make that more dramatic is kill 18 more.”
Macy was asked about the worst movie he’s ever seen.
“Oh, boy. I rarely get through them,” he said. “I think at the end of the day, one thing any story has to be is true. It’s got to be true to the human experience. And I think the test is if you put it out there and a couple of million people see it, that most of them recognize the issue and it moves them.”
He declared that too many films these days are damaging the world.
“What offends me is films that aren’t true. And I guess the most obvious example — and I can see the will to live just fade from people when I get on this kick — but I think Hollywood is doing a lot of damage to the world with our portrayal of violence. It’s not true, and it’s not a good place to be lying when it comes to our portrayal of violence.”
He said it’s “cost me a lot of work.”
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