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it's obviously as you know just such a huge comedy it's there's never been anything quite like it I don't think I'd
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never seen a comedy like it's also like a huge I mean without any jokes it was a
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huge movie meaning just as far as like visual I mean a fact to shoot oh yeah it was a yet explosive it was as big as any
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war movie you know we we I mean as far as the look I mean been such I mean he's obviously you know does get the credit
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you know um but he's often not credited enough I think with how great a director
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he is you know he is like a real camera mover who knows how to where was it oh yeah where'd you shoot it Hawaii
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we didn't need the authentic background why we needed to see a couple trees cast happy there's two there's
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a thing about a movie in comedies uh probably dramas too it's just these uh whatever you call them word packages
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that just are Transcendent that are funnier as time goes on you know and I I think one of them that's less
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controversial would be the Tom Cruise Les Grossman I want you to take one step back and literally [ __ ] your face or
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your own face yeah which one was it I'm not sure but that's the that's the kind of thing and again like Monty Python I
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don't know where that influence came from but those type of lines that nonsensical thing
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um I assume it wasn't a guy alone in a room or you're together at that point where you're kind of riffing what that
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character say or character uh came out of you know we you know we wanted Tom to be in the
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movie very badly and he it was kind of um he was like well I read the script and there's he's like there's no like
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Studio presence like why don't we create like a studio uh character you know and
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I just had a really bad experience working for Harvey Weinstein and so um on a movie that I directed and I I
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thought shocker and whatever happened to that guy go ahead um I and I just wanted to like I just
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wanted to um I wanted to somehow memorialize that bad experience and um and so that's how I got that
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character you know wow it's even funny just that like that Ray I remember Joel Silver one time he goes
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hey was that character based on me and I go no he goes damn it okay I wanted it to be based oh funny well the Popeye
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forearms and the hands and then the Tom Cruise uh which you know everyone loved the new Top Gun I mean he gets shinier
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and brighter when I look back and I see him now and I look at him in that movie when he's doing the dance slapping the
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ass at the end it's like yeah the guy is really funny he's so funny and he's so committed you know um yeah and I
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remember kind of because he has some really hard charging lines in that in that movie
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um writing him these lines he's gonna say Tom Cruise is gonna say this like yeah
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it is before we had seen him in any of the tests and hair and makeup and stuff well without saying the line which were
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the ones that were the most scary or you really couldn't use it was too far no maybe you can't you know we had sort of
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like Ben's a really smart director we you know if if we were to sort of pile the script up in all the pages that were
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written it would probably look like a phone book or a three phone book stacked on top of each other Ben is really good
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at um we would always sort of shoot like sort of you know an A B and C category of jokes within the scene and then
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alternates alternates alternates we had sort of these alternate scripts that we would go okay now we're gonna do one
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where you say this and so in the edit you know when we could you know when Ben was sort of testing the movie uh he was
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able to see you know oh this this you know went a little too far let's dial it back and you know that could be
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something simple just like too many f-bombs in a row or something