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Show ‘D6 The Salt Lake Tnbune ENTER AINMENT Wednesday, December 17, 2003 Cruise pushed hardforhis scruffy, bloodshotlook in ‘Last Samurai’ amura earnin bushido,’ the way of the warrior If ‘fom Cruise looks kind of bloodshot and disheveled in The Last Samurai,” don’t blame Marshall Herskovitz or Edward Zwick Che ind director, $100 producer-cowriter respectively, of the million historical eed] I Itw t i il it ine pialr Ne ] i ma face ur that guy inter It spoke to him, | think, very personally,” iys Herskovitz ‘I think people have an image of Tom from some of his films, like ‘Mission: Impossible,’ but then there’s the Tom who did Magnolia \s Ed likes to say he’s really i characteractor deep inside, He ictually really wants himself completely to it. in a part and transform.’ Herskovitz and Zwick have He Immerse Bringing the changing world of 19th-century Japan to the screen was something both men were keento do. “It was really a remarkable time in Japanese history,” says Herskovitz, who, with Zwick and screenwriter John Logan, delved into the history books and Cru vil War career litayry Imperial Arm Nathan veteran and hired by the Falls Co., named for the town in uprising of the tradition- bound irriors, the amurai. Turned sour by his i ement in the Indian Cam paigns tha lecimated tribes acre the American West, Al ren has become a drunken cynit reenary His time n 1870s Japan Algren living as he among the [t's a Wonderful Life.” Their "808 TV Si ea & FILM SOCIETY| TOWER THEATRE "522.705: ‘Albert Finney nae ELEPHANT 5.00 7-00 900 BROADWAY CENTREwonmrsmn “SCROOGE'c) The Color Musical series, “thirtysomething,” set in the Philadelphia ‘burbs (whence Herskovitz hails), was a bench mark of baby-boomer_ self reflection. 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The decision to shoot in New Zealand, home of the Hobbits and warriors of Peter Jackson’s village. “It was a very long and very tough shoot, just in terms of the physical demands,” says Herskovitz, on the phone from Washington. At times, the production crew swelled to 1,200: 300 to 600 Japanese extras, 400 New Zealanders, and a U.S. contingent of200 to 300. “When Tom turned to us one day and said, ‘Well, this is the biggest movie I’ve ever worked on,’ weall got alittle bit scared,” (Noon) (3:00) 5:30 “3.00 10:30 when they were enrolled at Japan to train in Western-style com changes Cruise 70s, the American Film Institute. In 1985 they formed the Bedford in f hat to deal with an 1.00 4.90) archives. “Japan had just opened itself up to the West in 1854, andin the space of20 years they had completely transformed the society and a lot of people were having trouble with that. The samurai class was being dispossessed, and a bunch of them wererising up in revolt. It was a very dramatic period.” It was also a very dramatic shoot. Production crossed three continents two weeksin Japan, seven weeksin Los Angeles andfive monthsin New Zealand, where a team of 200 carpenters built a 19th-century samurai known each other since the mid \ nself samurai lived. ae idd | its troops ive yt t The ren ( Dear i the Born on the 4th of July’ and t i t iid wer Impulse uj | epic i ‘Tom was really fascinated by the whole concept, and how and Again.” Separately, Zwick directed Denzel Washington and Mat thew Broderick in “( jlory” and Washington and Meg Ryan in “Courage Under Fire.” Herskovitz, who directed 1993’s “. Jack the Bear,” has produced the films “Traffic” and “ I Am Sam.” for Showtimes. EENORE 80 yop 466-3797 HSS HAL BOS ATE Oe ear etra 015 DUPLEX (PG-13) 2:00 5:00 DR. 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