“Dick Johnson Is Dead,” a new Netflix documentary, may be the happiest film about death you’ll ever see.
. As Dick underwent this new chapter, rarely relinquishing his signature grin, Johnson concocted stunts that would simulate his death and supply comic relief.“I was actively seeking to make decisions about how the film would come together at the last possible moment because what I wanted to do is to create maximum unexpectedness, maximum shifts of emotional tone,” she said. “The wish was always to build the fantasy work in response to the observational material that we’ve created.
“I thought all of the fantasy sequences were going to be his death,” Johnson said. “And then at a certain point, I was like, ‘Why are we still killing him? Can’t we take him somewhere else?’ The producers were just begging me to stop killing Dad. They felt sort of desperate for joy and pleasure because they were also really emotionally attached to my dad.”
“My father in so many ways is like these sort of terrible colors of America: light-blue shirt and khaki pants,” Johnson, who wears vibrant attire, said affectionately. “And I am the exuberance of the colors that exist all around the world. I wanted to bring that cathartic, energetic, euphoric energy into the film, to push against decline, smallness, shrinking, conformity, all of those things. That was coming from me, this wish to inject some glitter and some orange into the movie.
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