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Van Sant's Vision

By AAN Staff
october 2, 2003  02:05 pm
Van Sant's Vision
From the unconventional My Own Private Idaho and the experimental Gerry to the "feel good" Hollywood hit Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant has consistently defied expectations. Van Sant's latest film, Elephant, a fictional account of two teenage boys on a murderous rampage at their Portland high school, may be his most shocking work yet. Some say the movie, clearly inspired by the 1999 killings at Columbine High School, is little more than a snuff film. Willamette Week's David Walker talks to Portland's prodigal filmmaker as he prepares for the storm of controversy likely to result from his insistence on following his own vision.
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