A Chat with Tom Savini 2

I love tom's reaction to james mention of the giant claw, he's awesome!

he is such a nice guy!!!

I'm confused. I'm seeing the same interview as the first one.

I would love to live next door to Tom Savini

any one else notice Jame's name on Toms Arm. any way great interview

It's so funny. These movies mean so much to us, but having been to many horror conventions, i've learned to most of the actors its just a job, they could care less about the finished product. We obsess over this stuff much more then they do.

Dude, you know you're a big deal when Savini has a tat of your name on it. Well done "James" lol!

One of my favorite films Savini did the effects for was "Maniac" (1980) starring Joe Spinell. Savini actually gets his head blown off in that film.

I'll take Kyro Syrup, food coloring, cheese dip, melted rubber, and fake faces, and bodies, over CGI any fucking day!

WHAT DID YOU BEEP OUT!!!

Savini is a national treasure. I bet he's misunderstood by many. A great interview.

This website kicks ass.

great interview... he came off as a total dick in your first interview but he seemed really cool and friendly this time. lucky!

Savini came off a lot better this time. Maybe he took his chill pill. Overall seemed like a genuine interview. Nice job James!

Very nice stuff James, nice to be able to meet a guy like that and chat. Thanks for posting =)

Thanks James for the great interview. It was very interesting in contrast to the boring "blah blah everything is so great" in most of the interviews with the big names in the movie business.
And I also agree to Savinis critique on CGI. I liked Avatar but it really annoys me how everyone has to use a computer instead of real material. Same with 3D. It`s great to have all this but it should be used at the right location and not just everywhere.

I love that guy's work so much... I always find myself repeating the phrase "Tom Savini is a god" to people :) He's just so inspiring and I love his little cameos on the films he's making the FX for. A great interview.

Another great video, It's cool seeing your skills evolve. I like these interviews with people who don't normally get interviewed. That should be your thing, interviewing C list actors, directors, ect... and their take on the movies they've done and the industry as a whole.

Intresting... I like learning different things from your videos man. Good stuff.

Nice video as always, Savinis a legend and quite rightly so.

hes not a bad guy hes a good guy

Tom Savini is the man!
The headshot in maniac lol, when i saw him I knew that something gruesome was going to happen XD
It seems he performs the worst deaths possible on himself, to make sure the fx are done properly.

I loved his expression when you mentioned The Giant Claw. Priceless.

Hey james u forgot to ask him about that stunt he did in DAWN OF THE DEAD that way u could do a short vid on where he dropped in the movie.

At least tom didnt draw his knife at your throat like last time. Did he remember you or does he do that to everyone?

I met Tom a year or so ago at Motor City Comic Con and I gotta say I was very let down. After talking to Tom Sullavin for 20 some odd minutes going to see Tom Savini and having him say maybe 15 words if that was not worth the 20 bucks for his Autograph.

i love tom. ive met him several times and hes not a prick. hell i was parked behind him the other day. he is a busy dude an can get caught up in stuff. i love this interiew to as well as all of jame's stuff. an yea, the video wasent workin well for me either.

The commercial works fine but the picture is scrambled. Audio is ok though. I can watch the other videos fine except this one. :(

AMAZING VIDEO
AMAZING INTERVIEW
James you rock
:)

Great video James
and great interview too
Tom Savini is GOD
;0

Hey James/Mike, I'd love to hear more about all of your encounters with Tom Savini. I mean, the stuff that happened when the camera wasn't recording. I've heard a lot of good stories and bad stories about him. He definitely seemed a lot cooler in this 2nd interview than the first. Either way, both interviews were great to watch. Keep up the great job of giving us fun stuff to watch.

When you bleeped him, I'm going to guess that Tom said "I betray Machete" or something that indicates that he's a bad guy in the film.

@maxthepunisher... it worked okay for me. Must be something wrong your end.

On topic: That was an awesome interview James. Tom Savini is a legend.

Is it me or is this vid not working. The audio is there, no video. All scrambled!

As a film editor / sound recordist I know how annoying it is to overlap dialogue in films. I agree with Tom that is sounds more natural to the ear, the characters become more 'real' and so forth. But when recording, it's VERY difficult to get all the actors voices on the same or adjustable levels, to do so requires multiple mics and a lot more people and time to accomplish. Then once you've accomplished the difficult act of recording the dialogue with each voice on separate tracks (keep in mind that the residual sound of the other overlapping voices is heard in the other tracks too, at varying volumes and distortions) the editor then has to balance out all the voices, and make sure that the audience is able to pull enough information from the spots that overlap, a tedious process to say the least.

To top all of this off, if ultimately comes down to style and preference too, for example, another movie that's famous for overlapping dialogue is "The Goonies" . I know many, many people that love that movie, but personally, I came to hate the characters as most of the dialogue is a jumbled, overlapping mess of kids yelling at each other. I personally found it very annoying and distracting from the story I was trying to get involved it.

So, all the power to you Tom, but if you want to use overlaps, be prepared for a hell of a lot of ADR.

Btw, Savinis description of Jason Vorhees as a "hydrocephalic, mongoloid pinhead" was very amusing.

You know, I keep hearing horrible things about Savini. But I remember a time, like, when I first got internet, more than ten years ago when Savini had one of the best websites around. He had this cool gallery where he showed his daily life and his family, and he personally replied to EVERY MAIL he received. I sent a couple and he always replied with something nice, even if at the time, my english was still almost unintelligible (french dude here).
I heard that later he had to close the website because he kept receiving insulting messages about his family as well as threats.
I'm willing to bet that's why he's a little bitter. He opened to his fans and what he got in return is typical of internet : trolling, namecalling and all that shit.

Anyway, the interview shows he's still not all that bad when you know how to approach him.

Savini was a prick at the convention I met him at. I heard nobody liked him. I guess you have to kind of be somebody for him to give you the time of day.

This guy is a bigger nerd than you! XD

Great interview. You really get to know people like this instead of asking arbitrary questions like everyone else.

Nice video Jamez!
It waz nice to see what he had to say about the new Clash Of The Titans.
I've seen the remake, but not the original. But what ive seen of the original it looks better

Hey, think about it this way you guys: If those shitty "reality" shows can have overlapping dialogue, so can our movies.

I'm having a problem with my pic...where is it?

One movie that would have been allllot better with overlapping dialog would have been Independence day. Remember that scene where they are driving to DC and have that back and forth in the car where David says "I don't wana argue I don't wana argue. Lets just get there." Because it wasn't overlapping the argument from the father character it came off rather lame almost like he's panicking instead of trying to actually stop the other talking to make his point which that sort of thing is perfect for when you layer the dialog.

@JustCody
"when did the purpose of movies become imitating real life to perfection?"

Who said anything about imitating real life to perfection? The line should be drawn way before that. However there are a lot of things that just jump at you. Like how everyone just hangs up without saying anything. And of course the fact that there is no overlapping dialogue.

It may be that I've read too many books in my life and my expectations for realistic behavior is too high. Of course there really can't be overlapping dialogue in a book, but most of the other stuff is there.

whats with the bleep at the end, i dont get it.
and i hate you

The Phantom would still scare the shit out of me.

So because someone doesn't like something, they are immediately classified as mindless? I'm pretty sure that throwing around offensive generalizations is much more a symptom of being brainwashed than simply offering an honest opinion.

My problem with overlapping dialogue is that I have never seen a combination of writers and actors that could make it look natural on the big screen, but I wish someone could make it work. It always comes across as cheesy to me. Also, when did the purpose of movies become imitating real life to perfection? For fuck's sake, if I want to watch real life all I have to do is open my eyes.

Thank's for the awesome interview James, you're seriously good at being an interviewer. I couldn't really tell if I liked the guy from this interview, but I definitely wouldn't mess with him :D

To everyone who thinks overlapping dialogue is distracting or sucks. Congratulations. Hollywood has turned you all into mindless people who don't want to think when watching a movie. How can overlappind dialogue be confusing when that's the way we speak. You hear it everyday (Not so much in here, because we Finns think it's not polite to talk over someone, but that's beside the point)

The National Firearms Museum is already exhibiting at least 1 gun most likely more from Machete. And the Maltese Falcon is there the original Falcon is right there in the Museum in the NRA headquarters building in Fairfax Virginia.

Not sure if you would want to make the trip James but right now they have guns from more movies on display than ever before. And even some things that aren't guns like the actual Lightsabers and one of Han's Blasters from Star Wars.

If you go to NRAmuseum.org you can most likely find information on it. Not too much of a rush all these things should be there for at least another 9 months.

Did you ever find time to ask about other locations where things happened in the Mall you visited?

Great work, modern movies have lost the texture and dialoge flow of the oldies sad

that's the best interview i've ever seen on make-up and the horror genre.just wow.

Man oh man. He is a legend!!!! What a beast!
It seems like him and James have a lot in common. I can totally picture them sittin' down having a beer discussing colored contact lenses or something. Ha. Good stuff.

Grim Pinata
Because the movie came out in fucking 1981.