{"id":10458,"date":"2011-01-09T19:46:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T19:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=10458"},"modified":"2011-01-10T04:20:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T04:20:07","slug":"david-puttnam-on-producing-in-1983-local-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/01\/09\/david-puttnam-on-producing-in-1983-local-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"David Puttnam on producing in 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DLEG7wHcSTc\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10459\" title=\"David Puttnam interview 1983\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/David-Puttnam-interview-1983.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Puttnam\">David Puttnam<\/a><\/strong> was on a roll as a producer in the early 1980s and an interview from the time provides an interesting snapshot of his career at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Recorded in 1983, presuambly to promote <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Local_Hero\">Local Hero<\/a>, Puttnam was riding high after the commerical and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6vW8VrB_a8g\">Oscar success<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chariots_of_Fire\">Chariots of Fire<\/a> (1981).<\/p>\n<p>He discusses a number of different issues including:\u00a0working with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Forsyth\">Bill Forsyth<\/a> after turning down his previous film <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gregory%27s_Girl\">Gregory&#8217;s Girl<\/a>; a legal dispute involving locals in Scotland; the role of a producer;\u00a0his reputation for giving young directors a break; how he got into the film industry; the importance of music, the three key elements to a film and the &#8216;vivid&#8217; differences between a gross and net deal.<\/p>\n<p>(It begins with an interesting anecdote about gun control)<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DLEG7wHcSTc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DLEG7wHcSTc?fs=1&amp;hl=en_GB\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Puttnam\">David Puttnam<\/a> at Wikipedia<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0085859\/\">Local Hero<\/a> at the IMDb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Puttnam was on a roll as a producer in the early 1980s and this interview from the time provides an interesting snapshot of his career at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}