SFC: Hi Rebecca, back again! Okay so let’s finish with a quick word on what you see the future holding for you personally and where would you like to be in 10 years time? And then we’ll go into your Top-20 films.
RC: Well I’m not sure about 10 years. I do want to be a screenwriter, but I’m kind of afraid I’ll lose control – I know a lot of companies will put ten or twelve writers on a script after you’ve written it in the first place. I was talking to my professor about that and he said you have to be conscious of the fact they’ll always be looking for a way they can stick some naked girls in there – and I was like ‘No! - I don’t want any naked girls in my movies!’ So I think I may have to become a producer or something, so I’d like to work at a company like Metanoia or Origin, where at least you know they’re making morally-sound films. So that’s probably what I’ll end up doing in the next few years anyway.
But knowing me, I wouldn’t want to get up and go to movie set every day, so I wouldn’t want to be a director. I feel like what I’m doing career wise will be dependent upon if and when I get married. I’m always going to be a writer because that’s just who I am. I’ve always got some sort of film or media project I’m working on (at the moment I’m editing a World Youth Day webisode series), but when I’m really honest with myself, the quantity and degree of work I do in the future will depend on marriage and family life, which is extremely important to me.
SFC: And finally Rebecca, your Top-20 films and a brief word as to why.
RC: Okay well if it’s okay with you, instead of giving a list of my favourite classic and award-winning films (that make it look like they’ve actually taught me something in film school!), I’d like to give a list of films that I really enjoy. So the following are movies that I have seen multiple times and continue to watch, some of which have had an impact on my life and career. So, in no particular order:
1. The Lord of The Rings Trilogy - the second being my favourite of the three; why? Well two words: Orlando Bloom. But besides Orlando Bloom, I love archetypal fantasy films.
2. The Passion of the Christ - the best depiction of Christ’s passion on film ever made in my opinion… I actually cried!
3. Rear Window - a classic Hitchcock film. I saw it years and years ago and absolutely loved it.
4. The Godfather series - and yes I did like the third one! I know other people hated the other two but I liked them. I like it even just for the family dynamic.
5. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - It inspired my non-homicidal fascination with firearms and other weaponry.
6. Love & Basketball - a classic black teen film, it was the story of my life – I love that movie.
7. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - morally objectionable, but it still cracks me up. One of films you watch years later and realise how morally corrupt it is – stealing cars taking day off school etc. |
