The New York Times features an interview with filmmaker Gus Van Sant by Blake Nelson, the author of the book the Paranoid Park is based on. The story (if you haven’t heard already) is about a skateboarder who accidentally kills a security guard and then goes on the deal with all the feelings that go along with that. Van Sant talks a bit about skateboarding:
I had been a skateboarder in the ’60s, which was a long time ago, but I didn’t think that it was so much different. I worked on a film, “Skateboard,” in 1978, so I met the skaters of that time. That type of culture almost gets like gang culture or surf culture, territorial. I didn’t think it connected with the characters in the “Paranoid” story. They go to a skate park where the hard-core skaters are, but the real lifer skate people were only an inspiration to your characters.
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[Link: The New York Times]
