When we interviewed Michel Gondry about a month ago, it was well before all the recent news about The Green Hornet's move to a January release date and conversion to 3D. Somehow Coming Soon wound up doing their interview with Gondry for The Thorn in the Heart after all that mess, and because Gondry has never met a question he wouldn't answer, he provided them with some great quotes about why the film's conversion into 3D is nothing but a good thing.
It's worth noting before we get into it that Gondry is a director, and his job is to make all of his choices seem like good and worthwhile ones no matter how much the studio is twisting his arm, because anything else would be disastrous. Still, Gondry really is more likely to make good use of 3D than any other director besides possibly James Cameron. Here's what he had to say on the matter:
I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in "Science of Sleep" with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.I have a lot of ideas. I'm not supposed to talk about that because people have a lot of opinions, but I'm the one who knows what it really means. It's a tool that I'm really excited to embrace and I have tons of ideas. There's one thing that has never been done and I can't wait to do. That can only be done in 3D. I'm really excited to know that the studio is going for it. It shows, really, that they believe in the film. If they wanted to dump us, they wouldn't have done this.
So what's the "one thing that has never been done" that Gondry's referring to? If you think you can predict how his mind works, you're a whole lot smarter than I am. I'm willing to suspend a lot more disbelief for Gondry's 3D than I am for anyone else, but I'm also not buying his enthusiasm as proof that this was a good idea.
