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What truly amazes me is how director Ivan Malikin thought about the idea of combining Magnum P.I. with James Bond. Maybe asking him would help. Oh wait, I never did. Nevertheless, initially, it was just the spark in Ivan’s eye, but I must admit, it would be a reason on how he started it all.
In the year of 2010, I can remember that Ivan and I were both fellow film directors, helping each other out in various film projects. He was working on his first feature length film, Dace Decklan: Private Eye, as I was starting out with more serious roles in acting. He was holding auditions for his film so I asked him if I could try out, taking it more as practice. Who knows if this was the event that either helped me win a role or aid in my downfall? Either way, I was clearly not ready for what happened next. Ivan ended up offering me the role.
At the audition, we only received a few pages of the screenplay. ‘Okay,’ he said, ‘but first you have to read the entire script,’ and so I did. This, of course, came as no surprise to any actor with an ounce of professionalism. Unfortunately, most of us do not. But let us get back to that later in the article.
Suffice it to say, those who have seen the film reffered to, It is completely politically incorrect. Stereotypical comedy that incorporates comedy, teenage jokes, mocks faith, and has music. Now that this is in the past, the biggest cringe, for me at least, is that there was no attempt at the obligatory nudity, which is essential in B-grade films. Then again, there was a wall filled with photos of dicks and there were plenty of dildos.
The paragraph I just quoted would be reason enough for most actors to turn down the role. But not me. I think I am fairly liberal about most issues. Still, there was something in the dialogue of the script that I couldn’t shake off. I told Ivan to take it out. Even though it is a stretch to call Dace a piece of art, Ivan Dusseau classifies it as one and was unwilling to budge.
We were at a standoff, but obviously Ivan won because I ended up doing the film. I told myself that if Nicolas Cage was willing to eat a live cockroach in The Vampire’s Kiss, then I could surely say a single line that made me uneasy.
I refuse to share that quote because it still gives me goosebumps til this day. It is more or less like the ones that James Gunn tweeted many years past that costed him his Pouring gig and made him an outcast among his colleagues for some time. Then again, he was rehired because they missed the profit he made. Thankfully for me, I am not deeply rooted in the film business so whenever it does come to bite me, which I know it will at one point, it will have zero impact on me.
Some things can really wow you in a negative way, and now it has been a decade since we started working on Dace. It should not become much of a surprise to you, but we had a solid idea of making a B grade film. There exists an audience for films that are made poorly, and are poorly executed. We cashed in on that theory while producing our film. Just look at The Room from the year 2003. Sadly, we missed the opportunity, as most of our colleagues do, and as novice filmmakers, we lacked crucial knowledge about marketing and advertising. As a result, Dace remained a rare underground film until the previous year, when it appeared on Amazon and Tubi TV. Now, many years after the fact, those people are really enjoying it.
It’s impossible not to laugh! It is a story of an absolutely useless private investigator who is looking for his missing friend in the middle of the jungles in Rambosia and who is trying to prevent an evil plot of world domination based on the idea of blue pills that make men erect permanently. It is filled with love and lust, animation, absurdity, blood, and comic-style violence
Recently, I saw this on the streaming service Tubi, and oof, I’m still cringing. I would definitely not want my children to watch this. I was contemplating the idea of purchasing every copy available, but sadly, I don’t have enough bitcoin. On a more serious note, however, I could fully understand how much enjoyment we had in filming this.
Well, for some of us, it did. This flashes me back to why it is critical to go through the script. At first, the missing comrade that Dace Decklan seeks was at the beginning played by an actor called George. So, when we were rehearsing with the orchestra at the sound studio, one time when we took a break, he put a question to me. His concern was why his character was singing these lines that made no sense to him. So, I told him, “It is because you end up having sex with your daughter in the end scene.” He blinked and insisted that that was not the case. So, I asked him whether he had read the script, which he said he had, of course he would have known this detail had he read the script.
I relayed this informal exchange to Ivan and I said it would be a joke if he were to call and say he was going to back out of the movie and I was happy to let him know this. Well, that came true for the next day. Except it was not funny. The scenes had been filmed. Very costly scenes involving firearms, different locations, and a significant nada of time was spent. Scenes that could not be re-shot.
At first, Ivan planned on simply substituting George with a different actor and refraining from any explanation in the context of the film. Then Ivan had a brilliant idea which, to be fair, I considered one of the dumbest things I had ever heard when he initially mentioned the idea. Fortunately, all the scenes of Rados from the past had already been shot with George so Ivan simply recast the current day Rados as a woman (played by Suzy Markovski) explaining that the character underwent a sex change. He made the new Rados wheelchair bound as well since Dace had broken Rados’ back in an earlier scene. The forced casting change actually made the film even more frantic and better because of that.
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