Press Kit: Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited 12/26/18
PRESS KIT: TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN REVISITED 12/26/18 TO KILL OR NOT TO KILL Logline: In the future, militant feminists brainwash an American draft dodger to assassinate the Welsh minister of prostitution. Synopsis: In a dystopian future, American draft dodger Billy Hampton, 19, is brainwashed and programmed by militant feminists to assassinate the Welsh minister of prostitution. Lurching unwittingly toward his goal, he makes a series of furtive connections with outsiders like himself, including a feral child, a gentle prostitute, a sadomasochistic delinquent, a lovelorn androgyne, a hippie dope dealer, and a mute nymphomaniac, while at the same time fending off predators who would sell him into sex slavery. Eventually, he is forced to focus on his mission and face the dreadful dilemma tormenting his psyche: to kill or not to kill. Bill Paxton plays “Billy Hampton” in Taking Tiger Mountain Revisited, directed by Tom Huckabee and Kent Smith, co-written by William S. Burroughs. PRESS KIT: TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN REVISITED 12/26/18 DIRECTOR’S STATMENT In 1974 Kent Smith, 29, and Bill Paxton, 19, fledgling filmmakers based in Los Angeles, produced approximately half of a feature film in Wales with an amateur cast and crew. The script by Smith was based on the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III. Their stash of 35mm B&W negative was comprised of “short ends” from Bob Fosse’s Lenny. Their camera was an old Arriflex adapted for Techniscope, a wide screen format that required half as much stock as normal 35mm. They intended to shoot in Morocco, as dictated by the script, which was informed by the works of Paul Bowles, Albert Camus, and William S.
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