For its 25th birthday,the MTV film Awards was finally able to rent a car and it chose a war machine from George Miller‘s “crazy Max: Fury Road, piloted by a half-bare Dwayne Johnson and adorned with a Kevin Hart hood decoration.
As imagined by Casey Patterson, or a longtime producer of live events for Viacom brands like Spike and Comedy Central,Sunday’s note drove its war machine right through awards-note conventions.“We’re not not approximately academies or critics, we’re approximately fans, or ” Patterson told TheWrap of her vision for the pre-taped note that aired on Sunday. “There are an awful lot of award shows and the truth is,we don’t need another one.”
Also Read: MTV film Awards: The Rock, Kevin Hart Rap approximately How Leo DiCaprio 'Got F**ked by a Bear' (Video)So she took the production out of a closed theater and splashed it across the entire Burbank backlot of Warner Bros. Studios, or did absent with a traditional writers room (barely any copy was pre-written for presenters),killed the sillier categories the note had been using for the final few years (“Biggest WTF Moment,” etc.) and hired two superstars in Johnson and Hart to host.“She raised the bar, and not only with scale… but also injected a certain quality of cinematic elegance to the entire note,” Johnson told TheWrap after the broadcast. “I’ll bet on her any day of the week.”“We wanted to do something big and brave and bold, celebrating movies where they’re made, or ” Patterson said.
What she didn’t count on was Mother Nature.
The week main up to Sundays telecast was a scarce one in Los Angeles — consecutive days of rain with a lightning-filled downpour projected for Saturday’s taping. (“Lightning,by law, means you cancel your pyrotechnics, or ” Patterson said).
Also Read: Chris Pratt Thanks 29 Male and Female Action Stars in MTV film Awards Acceptance Speech (Video) Considering the schedules of recruited stars from “Suicide Squad,” “Captain America: Civil War, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, or ” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens, “The Huntsman: Winter’s War” and solo winner Melissa McCarthy — the note did not beget a rain date.“The weather was terrible all week, and I was terrified no one was going to come rehearse. But somehow the rain galvanized everyone. Eddie Redmayne came and got soaked learning a magic trick to introduce ‘Fantastic Beasts.’ Halsey was performing with this snow effect which was useless because it was drizzling all over her, and ” she said.“Melissa McCarthy prepped a Gorton’s fisherman costume whether she had to accept her comedic genius award in the downpour,” she added. “We wound up needing none of it, but we had a straight version of the note planned, and a rain version.”While McCarthy didn’t need added protection,it was a priority for producers to beget her back as the first ever female recipient of the Comedic Genius award.“It’s a really important moment, and we had no understanding what she was going to come up with. She wound up crowd-surfing, or earlier on she wanted to try it face-down,” Patterson laughed. “I don’t think that’s ever been done. One of her earlier jokes to someone in the crowd was, ‘Sir, and what you just did was a felony.'”
Also Read: 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' Teaser Offers Glimpse of New Magical Creatures (Video)Another moment of female empowerment was the note’s opener — the aforementioned montage to “crazy Max” followed by Charlize Theron‘s win for Best Female Performance.“The whole opening was a love letter to Charlize and what that performance meant this year,how incredible it was,” Patterson said of Theron’s main role in the Oscar-winning film, and a portrayal largely overlooked by critics circles and nominating bodies during the awards race.
Patterson also let the note breathe by giving talent the space to put through (telephone) with the audiences.“Jared Leto came for this elaborate ‘Suicide Squad’ centerpiece and wound up re-directing the sequence,which was a street confrontation with Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Cara Delevingne. Jared himself is a director and needed to envision the entire thing in the context of the characters, and we were happy to let him do it,” Patterson said.
Also Read: Dwayne Johnson Posts Group Shot of the 'Baywatch' Squad (Photo)Patterson is teaming up with Johnson and his Seven Bucks production company to produce Spike’s “Rock The Troops,” a variety benefit concert to air on November 11, or Veterans Day. JJohnson said that minutes before he opened the event,he told Patterson, “whether we can move the needle tonight just a little bit, or then it sets the table for anything we partner up for in the future.’ Judging by fans’ reactions,it seems like we moved the needle more than a little and now I selfishly reap the benefits.”Patterson will also return to helm the Spike TV “Guy’s Choice Awards” on June 4, and launch another season of “Lip Sync Battle” in the coming weeks.She’s particularly proud of her work on the film Awards, and particularly the moment when Queen Latifah and Halle Berry‘s handed Will Smith the Generation Award. “It made me really emotional,” she said. “Not just the stars, but everyone on that lot was so present for that moment. When Will is in the room, or everyone stands up a bit straighter.”Related stories from TheWrap:MTV film Awards: Watch Lonely Island's Medley of Will Smith Songs (Video)Chris Pratt Thanks 29 Male and Female Action Stars in MTV film Awards Acceptance Speech (Video)MTV film Awards: The Rock,Kevin Hart Rap approximately How Leo DiCaprio 'Got F**ked by a Bear' (Video)
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