Gerry (2002)
Gerry (2002)
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Cast & Crew.
Casey Affleck
Gerry / Editor / Writer
Matt Damon
Gerry / Editor / Writer
Gus Van Sant
Director / Editor / Writer
Harris Savides
Director of Photography
Dany Wolf
Producer / First Assistant Director
Goro Koyama
Foley
Andy Malcolm
Foley
Arvo Pärt
Original Music Composer
Felix Andrew
Sound mixer
Leslie Shatz
Supervising Sound Editor / Sound Designer
Todd Beckett
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Sally Sue Beisel
Second Assistant Director
Jay Hernandez
Associate Producer
Jen Wall
Production Supervisor
Matías Mesa
Steadycam
Christopher Blauvelt
First Assistant Camera
Alice Gu
Second Assistant Camera
Mike Blauvelt
Third Assistant Camera
Jason McCormick
Loader
Jim Kwiatkowski
Key Grip
John Mang
Dolly Grip
Jamie Franta
Grip
Brady McElroy
Grip
Walter 'Bud' Scott
Best Boy Grip
Christian Davidson
Grip
A.J. Davidson
Grip
Tony Cady
Grip
Stuart Deutsch
Boom Operator
Christian Burgoyne
Makeup Effects
Mike Donoghue
Medical Consultant
Mary Jasionowski
Production Accountant
Roger Faires
Location Manager
Scott Acito
Production Assistant
J.T. Bock
Production Assistant
Jeff Eveleth
Production Assistant
Danielle Fenati
Production Assistant
Joeby Gibson
Production Assistant
Greg Moutran
Production Assistant
Damon Zwicker
Production Assistant
John "Bear" Whytock
Driver
Ismael Cuadra
Driver
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 20, 2002
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 43m
Budget$3,500,000
Box Office$255,000
Filming LocationsCalifornia, United States
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This Movie Is About.
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Gerry is a 2002 American drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, and starring and co-written by Matt Damon and Casey Affleck. It is the first installment of Van Sant's "Death Trilogy", three films based on deaths that occurred in real life and is succeeded by Elephant (2003) and Last Days (2005).
Gerry follows two hiking companions who both go by the name "Gerry". "Gerry" is also a slang term, used by both protagonists throughout the misadventure, meaning "to screw up". Van Sant revealed in interviews that Damon, Affleck, and his brother Ben had already coined the term prior to the title being chosen.
The plot shares some commonalities with the events surrounding the death of David Coughlin, who was killed after he and a friend became lost in Rattlesnake Canyon in New Mexico. The style was largely inspired by the work of Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr, namely its use of extended scenes playing out in uncut master shots. There are a few direct visual quotations from Tarr's Sátántangó (1994), such as a shot following the two protagonists while tumbleweeds blow around them that mimics a shot in Tarr's film where two men walk through a town as a windstorm blows around leaves and trash.
Besides the work of Tarr, the video game Tomb Raider was cited as an influence on the style. Van Sant had mentioned that he had not had much experience with video games and was struck by the fact that the lack of the ability to cut away from the action in video games meant having to stay with the characters during travel that would normally be glossed over in films. In an interview with Filmmaker Magazine, Van Sant stated "In some ways, Gerry is Béla Tarr fused with Tomb Raider!"
Gerry is frequently cited as an example of non-narrative cinema.