A brand new picture out called The Argue, starring the sensationally brilliant yet deranged
David Argue.
If you'd like to see what a director looks like who's had to direct David Argue, this
is him, Mark Embrough, an actor himself, but you had to put up with David, Argue and
his eccentricities I guess, the best way to describe him would be Australia's Robin Williams.
How did you work with David?
Well you give him an idea and off he goes, and then you all try and keep up with it,
or stand back, yes exactly mate, stand back, but it's always different you know.
Well of course you know with this film it wasn't just shooting like a local shoot, you
had to go round the world, you went round the world in 21 days, with David Argue and
his mum, and was there a certain amount of control needed or did you just step back
and say go for it kids?
Well there was as much control as we could have, control is probably not the right word
because you're trying to actually create something so soon as you would make the word control
it sort of takes the oomph out of the creativeness, but we had a really basic story that we went
around the world, revisited all these places where his mum and dad had skated.
So the story basically is a true story about the Argue's who were you know, I guess they
came out of boredom in a sense and some marvellous bite stunts that David does in the show that
his father used to perform, and of course his mother was a brilliant ice skater.
And there's that lovely scene shot at Rockefeller Center where David is dancing or skating
with his mother, and it's a very nostalgic moment, it's sort of like I found the film
to be sort of funny in parts, but also quite moving, it brings a tear to the eye because
anyone that has a family knows that that family had, they have their repercussions with things
that happened to them, and I guess even during the shoot that would have happened between
his mum and David.
Yes, we're in spots where they were, like that scene.
I mean, the last time she had been there she was skating with her husband David's dad.
So I think it's had that touch with everybody a little, as you say, we're all touched by
walking in the paths where our loved ones or friends have been.
I was really glad that we could get that emotion and tell that sort of side of the story for
Pat, and also comments on, I mean, because most of the rest of the film is pretty contemporary,
it's in your face, you know, like it's quite a new style in that sense.
There are some beautiful moments if you like, travelogue.
I love going to Venice, I think that everyone should go to Venice before they die, someone
said that, but the way it was shot, and with David, you know, the real David argue, Roll
of Skating in St Paul's Square, just stunning.
Bill Moser, who was our director of photography and main cameraman on the shoot, was just fantastic
at getting this done, and he would literally run after David skating, or he would put the
camera in a good spot.
I mean, we're talking the beauty of the place and those scenes, I mean, Bill did a marvellous,
and there's more than that in this film because we shot with a very small crew, we were always
on the road, we made it up as we went, and that's what the spirit of this film wants
with everybody.
