{"id":52582,"date":"2020-08-24T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-bill-ted-face-the-music-interview-being-excellent-is-a-practice\/"},"modified":"2020-08-24T14:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:16:00","slug":"the-bill-ted-face-the-music-interview-being-excellent-is-a-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-bill-ted-face-the-music-interview-being-excellent-is-a-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"#The \u2018Bill &#038; Ted Face the Music\u2019 Interview: Being Excellent is a Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#The \u2018Bill &amp; Ted Face the Music\u2019 Interview: Being Excellent is a Practice<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><em>Welcome to <strong>World Builders<\/strong>, our ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of conversations with the most productive and thoughtful creatives in the industry. In this entry, we interview director Dean Parisot, screenwriters Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson,\u00a0and hear a little from Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter about\u00a0the blessed, delusional optimism of Bill and Ted Face the Music.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<p>Be excellent to each other. Party on dudes. You can have one without the other, but their might is mightier when paired together.<\/p>\n<p>A most excellent ampersand should link the two philosophies, and within that bond are two bodacious champions of positivity. Thirty-one years after their first <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>earance, we need Bill &#038; Ted more than ever. The world outside our windows appears pretty grim. To survive it requires an impossible zeal.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, the chances of <strong><em>Bill &#038; Ted Face the Music<\/em><\/strong> coming together seemed unlikely. Rumors swirled for years. Hopes rose and fell. If not for the intense dedication of its stars, its screenwriters, and its fans, the third film would have never materialized.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1gPGeAYo3yU?feature=oembed\" title=\"BILL &#038; TED FACE THE MUSIC Official Trailer #2 (2020)\" width=\"700\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ed Solomon<\/strong> and <strong>Chris Matheson<\/strong> first developed Bill &#038; Ted as part of an improv session, inhabiting the best buds who punctuate every emotion with a \u201cwhoa\u201d or \u201cexcellent.\u201d They couldn\u2019t shake the characters, eventually developing them into 1989\u2019s <strong><em>Bill &#038; Ted\u2019s Excellent Adventure<\/em><\/strong>, where <strong>Alex Winter<\/strong> and <strong>Keanu Reeves <\/strong>would become their stewards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re meaningful,\u201d says Matheson. \u201cThey\u2019re not our children, obviously, but they feel like our creation and alter egos and imaginary friends. We really like them, and we wanted to do right by them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Solomon thought the chances of closing out the trilogy were impossible. Then again, he thought the chances of a second film were impossible. And even the chances of the first film screening theatrically were at one point bleak as well. <em>Bill &#038; Ted<\/em> always found a way, and once Solomon entered the realm of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>, he discovered the impenetrable passion of the fanbase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt a responsibility to the fans,\u201d he explains. \u201cTo them, the existence of the third <em>Bill &#038; Ted<\/em> movie seemed to actually matter. Because Bill &#038; Ted meant so much to us, I started to feel this personal responsibility to make it happen. I felt like if we could get this made for them, we would somehow honor them in a weird way. It was their voices who made the financiers ultimately feel like it was worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As society sinks into a funk, the philosophy of Bill &#038; Ted fortifies. These are incredibly curious creatures failed by teachers beholden to textbooks. When they came face to face with history, their minds were blown by its majesty, and they were able to take its wonder to the streets of San Dimas and into the audience beyond the movie screen.<\/p>\n<p>Bill &#038; Ted are not dumb; they just don\u2019t know what they don\u2019t know. That\u2019s us, dudes!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bill And Ted Face The Music Reeves Winter Interview\" height=\"600\"  src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bill-and-Ted-Face-the-Music-Reeves-Winter-Interview.jpg\"  width=\"800\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>Director <strong>Dean Parisot<\/strong> found faith in his heroes.\u00a0While their passion for learning endures in <em>Bill &#038;Ted Face the Music<\/em>, the utopian dream they were promised by Rufus (George Carlin) in the original film failed to realize. When the future comes calling once again, they help for the sake of helping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBill &#038; Ted might be delusionally optimistic,\u201d says Parisot, \u201cbut their delusions prove to be correct. We all have things as we get older that we wish we had accomplished that we didn\u2019t. We defined ourselves when we were teenagers, and then we try to live up to that, but happenstance and luck and everything come into play, and you don\u2019t get there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rather than wallow in their bogus ordinariness, the two friends hold on to what they have: each other, their wives, and their daughters. The band is family. The family is the band.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the biggest reason for making this movie,\u201d he continues, \u201cbeyond loving these characters, loving the franchise and having personal friends involved, is learning that it\u2019s not about the songs, but it is about playing them together. That appeals to me in a time where we\u2019ve gone the other direction in so many ways at this moment in history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Being excellent to each other is a practice. With the new film, Winter and Reeves wanted to champion the optimism of their characters, but they also wanted to show the work that went into their fight for excellence. Their purpose has pertinence, and it\u2019s a cause more could adopt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s relevant all the time,\u201d says Reeves. \u201cI guess now, it has more impact just because of the situation that we find ourselves in. The idea of \u2018Be excellent to each other,\u2019 I think, is a very good idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Interview Bill And Ted Face The Music\" height=\"600\"  src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Interview-Bill-and-Ted-Face-the-Music.jpg\"  width=\"800\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>Bill &#038; Ted\u2019s warm-hearted openness is a beacon for today and tomorrow. Keeping their torch lit is an honor for the actors. They\u2019re happy that so many are responding positively to it today, but they imagine we would respond well to it no matter when the film came out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe <em>Bill &#038; Ted<\/em> movies have an inherent sweetness,\u201d says Winter. \u201cAnd they have a theme of inclusivity, of people being kind to each other and coming together. That was certainly the story that Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon set out to write with the third one, many years before there was a COVID or a situation like we\u2019re in today. It just so happens to be something that may bring folks some joy in this particular time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Battling banal wickedness is at the center of all three <em>Bill &#038; Ted<\/em> films. Sure, reality as we know it might tumble into non-existence, but the ultimate stakes rest within the family unit. Before Rufus ever arrived, Bill &#038; Ted were already facing a hellacious future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of darkness and pain in their lives,\u201d says Matheson. \u201cWe didn\u2019t consciously ever think of it, but that was there. They both have broken homes, no mothers, incredibly cruel, brutal fathers, and nobody except each other when you get down to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, in the new film, Bill &#038; Ted don\u2019t just have each other. They have their wives and their daughters. Failing themselves and their future would result in failing their family. As children of deadbeat dads and absent moms, the duo understands and fears the heartache of parental defeat better than anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe psychological ramifications seemed to play out in this movie more,\u201d says Solomon. \u201cTed is much more conflicted, especially when he goes forward and deals with future versions of himself. He\u2019s very tormented, and that\u2019s something that Chris and I both love about Keanu\u2019s performance. It\u2019s darker, but it\u2019s also got a lightness in it. There are multiple levels to Ted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Keanu Reeves Alex Winter\" height=\"600\"  src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bill-and-Ted-Face-the-Music-Interview-Keanu-Reeves-Alex-Winter.jpg\"  width=\"800\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>Filling in the gaps between <strong><em>Bill &#038; Ted\u2019s Bogus Journey<\/em><\/strong> and <em>Bill &#038; Ted Face the Music<\/em> was a tremendous appeal for Reeves. Acknowledging the pain at Ted\u2019s core was crucial, and it elevates the awesome power of his optimism. There is strength in good cheer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been many years since we\u2019ve seen them last,\u201d says Reeves. \u201cDuring those years, they\u2019ve lived life, and they\u2019ve got more mature daughters. They\u2019ve been together with this kind of pressure of this destiny. They were given the responsibility of uniting the world through their music that they haven\u2019t been able to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The language and the movements returned quickly to Reeves and Winter, but they couldn\u2019t neglect the doubt that builds within these two after their band Wyld Stallyns\u00a0withered. Being excellent to each other is made all the more Herculean beneath the shadow of uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does that look like?\u201d continues Reeves. \u201cWe played these guys who are still familiar but not caricatures of themselves. We had to be present so that we felt the weight of these guys, as well as their joy and their lightness and their spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Directing\u00a0<em>Bill &#038; Ted Face the Music<\/em> was like hosting a party for Dean Parisot. He made sure his actors had what they needed, and then he let them do their thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese two guys have known each other their whole life,\u201d says Parisot. \u201cThey\u2019ve played these characters in two movies before. We then lived with this film, developing it \u2014 for me, it was six or seven years, and for them, it was eleven. Once we got to the set, those guys worked like crazy. You want to create an environment where they can succeed, and they didn\u2019t\u2019 need any help from me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reeves Winter\" height=\"600\"  src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Bill-and-Ted-Face-the-Music-Interview-Reeves-Winter.jpg\"  width=\"800\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>The chemistry between Reeves and Winter dictated the visual language of <em>Bill &#038; Ted Face the Music<\/em>. The gravitational pull between the two actors was too strong to ignore. The movie bent to their will.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe discovered that Bill &#038; Ted don\u2019t really work very well in singles,\u201d says Parisot. \u201cThey\u2019re constantly in a two-shot because they\u2019re constantly working off one another. They\u2019re so talented as physical comedians. It\u2019s not contrived, they\u2019ve just been best friends forever. They\u2019re working off one another all the time that when you\u2019re cutting, you tend to remove yourself from that experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Winter and Reeves are not sad to see Bill &#038; Ted go, because they can\u2019t leave. They\u2019re not going anywhere. Bill &#038; Ted are tied to their beings, and they wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a strange and very lovely thing to have in your life,\u201d says Winter. \u201cYou\u2019re in your day, you\u2019re in your head, you\u2019re in your world, which has got nothing to do with public life, and some five-year-old comes running up to you to tell you how much you mean to them. It\u2019s pretty amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Reeves, the feeling is mutual. No matter what else he\u2019s done in his career, Bill &#038; Ted remain a cornerstone to his personal and creative life. Nothing gives quite like Bill &#038; Ted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such an honor to work with Alex,\u201d says Reeves. \u201cThe way that we can share our sense of humor and laugh in the work. That\u2019s something I don\u2019t get anywhere else. It\u2019s pretty extraordinary. I\u2019m very grateful for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Focusing on the negative is a natural gut reaction. It\u2019s easy. Finding excellence in each other demands effort, but if we can uncover the good qualities of others and ourselves, then\u00a0we can party on. 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