Friend of the World
Friend of the World is a 2020 American black-and-white dark comedy film written and directed by Brian Patrick Butler in his feature film debut, starring Nick Young and Alexandra Slade. With the tone of an absurdist stage play, it is structured like an episode of Black Mirror or The Twilight Zone and pulls from inspirations such as John Carpenter's The Thing and Chris Marker's La Jetée. The surreal experimental film takes place post-apocalypse after a devastating war. A young filmmaker emerges from the destruction in an old bunker and discovers a military general who claims they are the last two people alive. There has been debate about what genres define the film; it has been categorized as a psychedelic film, a surrealist film, and an end of the world film.
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| Screenplay by | Brian Patrick Butler
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| Music by | Stefan Krut
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| Running time | 50 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Language | English
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- The film has been described as Samuel Beckett and Jean-Paul Sartre meet John Carpenter and David Cronenberg.
- The film's executive producer Kerry Rossall has appeared in two movies that influenced Friend of the World: John Carpenter's They Live (1988) as an actor and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) as an actor and stuntman.
- The film coincidentally shares a release date with two films that influenced it: David Cronenberg's body horror masterpiece The Fly (1986) and Francis Ford Coppola's war epic Apocalypse Now (1979), both released on August 15 in their respective years.
- Some exterior scenes were shot at Sunset Cliffs and a bridge at the Tierrasanta entrance to Mission Trails Regional Park. The bulk was filmed at Gray Area Multimedia, an underground studio in downtown San Diego.
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