Preproduction work on The Animals is gearing up again. I’m hoping to shoot in August or September, depending on cast and crew schedules.
What’s the film about? In an effort to clarify:
In a nutshell I think the film is about a couple that either can’t or won’t change, and how that fact affects both those around them and their own marriage.
The two main characters themselves have no clear arch. That can be disconcerting. Instead the people around them do in response to the aggressive consistency of the main couple. This makes for a film that is flipped on its head in terms of plot structure. The beauty of this is that we are afforded the opportunity to play up characteristics that rarely get seen in film, but are ubiquitous in real life.
Most people don’t change. Not fundamentally. Instead, in their remarkable fear of change, they continually make mistakes and cause pain and suffering to those around them in what amounts to a loop of consistency. It’s in how the peripheral characters react in response to being caught up in that whirl pool that is interesting.
