{"id":10970,"date":"2012-09-06T15:39:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=10970"},"modified":"2013-03-27T17:27:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T17:27:34","slug":"lawless-nick-cave-and-john-hillcoat-talk-westerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2012\/09\/06\/lawless-nick-cave-and-john-hillcoat-talk-westerns\/","title":{"rendered":"LAWLESS: Nick Cave and John Hillcoat talk Westerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nick Cave. You\u2019ve probably heard of him. The legendary lead singer of The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds, also in Grinderman, has been crafting beautiful, obsessive, lyrical songs about death and violence for decades. Film-making is just one of his hobbies. His latest offering is Lawless, for which Cave wrote the screenplay adaptation and worked on music with Warren Ellis. Wonderland<\/em> talks to Cave and long-term film collaborator John Hillcoat, who directed the film. <\/p>\n

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How did you guys start hanging out and working together?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nick: We met on the Melbourne scene; such as it was back then. John was fresh out of film school, we knew each other anyway and he was involved in the first video we did for the Birthday Party \u2013 the infamous Nick the Stripper<\/a> video. We sort of worked here and there ever since. The scriptwriting actually started with \u2013 we were closer in that way with The Proposition.<\/p>\n

Was there something about America you wanted to emphasize? <\/strong><\/p>\n

N: I think that there\u2019s an idea within America of its immortality and invincible nature. That\u2019s an American thing and that\u2019s at the heart of the story, so yes. Obviously, within the story the characters aren\u2019t immortal, and that\u2019s the way the film ends. I think that\u2019s something that America\u2019s understanding about itself at the moment. That it\u2019s actually not invincible and not immortal. <\/p>\n