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Scott Cooper<\/a> has reason to celebrate. On the weekend of the Critic\u2019s Choice and the Golden Globe Awards, the 39-year-old writer-director of Crazy Heart boasts an air of self-confidence. And who could blame him?<\/p>\n

His $7 million film has just opened across the country, and is up for several year-end awards. Not just for lead actor Jeff Bridges<\/a>, who has been gaining lots of steam for his marvelous performance as \u201cBad\u201d Blake, washed-up country-western singer. Cooper\u00a0 himself has been singled out, too, nominated for Indie Spirit Awards and a Writer\u2019s Guild of America Award for turning Thomas Cobb\u2019s 1987 novel about the resurrection of an alcoholic troubadour into a moving, music-filled drama that has critics singing its praises and the industry buzzing: \u201cWill The Dude finally get an Oscar?\u201d<\/p>\n

All this from a guy who has never written a screenplay before, or directed so much as a high school play. To say nothing of a movie that was abandoned by its now-defunct studio (Paramount Vantage), and then acquired by Fox Searchlight. That\u2019s the same studio that had a little luck last year releasing a film called Slumdog Millionaire, after Warner Brothers left it orphaned.<\/p>\n

As everyone knows, Hollywood loves a Cinderella story, and this year, Crazy Heart is it.<\/p>\n

Cooper, wearing a black tie, sports jacket and jeans, recognizes his good karma. When told by a reporter he seems self-confident, he thanks them for the compliment. \u201cI guess I was born under a lucky star,\u201d the goateed, spiked-haired filmmaker says, summing it all up.<\/p>\n

Born and raised in the artistic community of Abingdon, Virginia amidst the Blue Ridge Mountains, Cooper cut his teeth on bluegrass music, listening to the likes of Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley and Doc Watson. His musical education continued by tuning to his father\u2019s record collection that included Townes Van Zandt, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m always drawn to people who write about their life experience and do it eloquently like Michael Stipe of R.E.M., Jeff Tweedy of Wilco,\u201d says Cooper over coffee in a Philly hotel room. \u201cThen these guys like Cash and Merle Haggard. That gave me personal insight into what this man Bad Blake was and is, and what to take into his personal life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Originally, Cooper had intended to make a dramatic film about country star Haggard, whose roughhewn life mirrors that of Crazy Heart\u2019s fictional Bad Blake.\u00a0 But that didn\u2019t work out as the novice Cooper had hoped.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent some time with Merle at some shows and on his bus,\u201d recalls Cooper. \u201cAnd he had a lot of ex-wives, so I wasn\u2019t able to retain his life rights. But I used him, Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Townes Van Zandt, some of the people who helped shape my musical world view, and made it fiction as opposed to a straight biopic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooper, whose previous show business experience came strictly as an actor, found the perfect blueprint for his film in Cobb\u2019s novel. \u201cI tried to stay true to the spirit of the novel, but if you are a filmmaker you try to personalize it in what you want to say,\u201d says Cooper. \u201cSo I took liberties by personalizing it as I know it, basing things on people I knew who suffered through alcoholism, or some of the great radio heroes I grew up on and how they wrote about their life experiences. But I think it\u2019s a faithful adaptation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the novelist saw the film, he said he cried. But I guess his expectations were so low because I never directed anything before, it certainly didn\u2019t give him high hopes.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Cooper read the book, only one actor stood out as the embodiment of Bad Blake:\u00a0 Jeff Bridges.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wrote it for Jeff,\u201d states Cooper. \u201cIn fact, when I first wrote the screenplay I sent it to Robert Duvall<\/a>, a mentor of mine. He said, \u2018Scott, I love this script, and I\u2019d like to make it, but there are two things I need, and if I don\u2019t get them, I shouldn\u2019t make this movie. One is (music producer) T-Bone Burnett, and the next is Jeff Bridges.\u2019 He said if he can\u2019t get Jeff, he can\u2019t make the film, because he was the only one who could play this part.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a musician and very good guitarist, and shares a physicality of the people like Waylon and Kris Kristofferson. But he\u2019s certainly deserves the praise he\u2019s getting. He\u2019s just a remarkable, wonderful actor and it\u2019s now his favorite film. He thinks it\u2019s his best work.\u201d<\/p>\n

That says a lot from a man who has been nominated for four Academy Awards and has acted in scores of films over a career that spans four decades. Cooper says his influences for filming Crazy Heart came from the films of a different era, an era in which Bridges, son of Lloyd and brother of Beau, made an early mark, appearing in such films as The Last Picture Show, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and Stay Hungry, efforts helmed, respectively, by \u201cNew Hollywood\u201d filmmakers Cooper respects: Peter Bogdanovich<\/a>, Michael Cimino<\/a> and Bob Rafelson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt all harkens back to \u201870s filmmaking, where characterization is emphasized more than plot,\u201d relates Cooper. \u201cI had to address that he was a man who ultimately realizes he has flaws, and has faults, and has to ultimately find that redemption if he\u2019s going to grow as an artist and person. And in order to get that across, I think you have to see it. And I made it impressionistic because it is a movie, not a documentary. And you have to take liberties. And it seems to have worked, at least for my money and for Jeff Bridges\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooper says he and Bridges \u201cworked very closely for a year, working on the music together and shaping the character. I inundated him with music that influenced me while writing. And I gave him lots of concert footage of Waylon performing, some Highwaymen and Cash. So he really embodied that outlaw sensibility of these guys. He carried it from town to town and show to show, so we really had a collaborative relationship from the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crazy Heart was shot cheap and fast. Cooper says that the acting part of it came easiest, since his background is in performing in front of the camera. \u201cAs an actor, I was able to calibrate all the performances, from Jeff on down to the smaller parts. We used a lot of non-actors. Robert Duvall said \u2018They don\u2019t have bad habits, so you can direct them easily.\u2019 So that was the easiest thing for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most trouble Cooper had was getting it all in within the three weeks allotted for filming. “The most difficult thing was the logistics. I had only 24 days to shoot it in three states. There were ten musical numbers, and one of them was live in front of 12, 000 people who didn\u2019t know I was shooting. Those were challenges I encountered because I never directed before. But in terms of telling the story, working with the actors, production design, telling the story, I really steeped myself in those great films of the 1970s.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooper\u2019s relationship with Duvall certainly made things easier. The two met while making Gods and Generals, and have worked together on such projects as the mini-series Broken Trail and the upcoming film Get Low with Sissy Spacek<\/a>. With financing coming from CMT (Country Music Television), Duvall helped get things together with his co-producers, and found support from the studio when everything came together. But, according to Cooper, Duvall, who has directed such indie films as The Apostle, allowed first-timer Cooper do his own thing.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe really loved the film and didn\u2019t come into the cutting room,\u201d says Cooper, who considers Duvall one of his closest friends. \u201cI had Jeff (Bridges) come in, and Maggie (Gyllenhaal<\/a>, who co-stars) would stop in, too. T-Bone (Burnett) also. They all were really supportive from my first cut on. Mr. Duvall and I talk every day, sometimes a few times a day. We talk about actors, technique, directors\u2019 styles.\u201d<\/p>\n

One thing Cooper learned early on was to give the actors their own space. \u201cIf you are directing actors of this caliber, you don\u2019t want to overly direct people. You want to get them to feel comfortable in a room. You need to get them to feel safe and take risks, and fail if they need to. If you do, you will find success. If you direct with a heavy hand, people don\u2019t get relaxed. They feel it and get tense and it just doesn\u2019t work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, the music in Crazy Heart is essential to its success. Working on the songs were Burnett, the legendary producer\/performer and the man behind the music in O Brother Where Art Thou? and Walk the Line, as were the late Stephen Bruton, to whom the film is dedicated, and newcomer Ryan Bingham, who also has a small part in the movie.\u00a0\u201cT-Bone created an alternate universe of part country music, part delta blues, part Texas romance,\u201d says Cooper.<\/p>\n

The filmmaker says it was essential to find a song that would work as a connecting device for the events depicted in the lead character\u2019s life. \u201cHe (Bad Black) hasn\u2019t written a song for years, and the song he writes is about reconnecting with his son, finding a younger woman that will reawaken him artistically, about his life on the road, the lonely life. Out of the story comes \u2018The Weary Life.\u2019 Once we had that song\u2014a thread through the film\u2014I tailored this script to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The song was authored by Bingham, who was living out of his truck a few short years ago. He was playing in a small club in L.A. when Colin Farrell (who has an unbilled cameo in Crazy Heart) found him. \u201cI met with him, and I told him I wanted him in the movie,\u201d recalls Cooper. \u201cI told him, \u2018Take the script, and if something hits you, write something.\u2019 He takes the script home and the next day, he calls and says he wrote something. He comes to T-Bone\u2019s place, sits on his coffee table and starts playing this song. I sit behind him, watching T-Bone\u2019s reaction. T-Bone\u2019s jaw starts to drop. You never know when the legendary T-Bone is moved like that. And we said, \u2018That\u2019s it! That\u2019s the song, that\u2019s the narrative thread!\u2019 And Ryan did it overnight.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Farrell, who plays one of Bridge\u2019s former backup men who has become a slick country star, Cooper explains that \u201cI wanted someone very surprising in the role.\u201d And he got that with notorious hellraiser Farrell.\u00a0 \u201cCountry music comes from the Irish-Scottish heritage, and he\u2019s, of course, Irish,\u201d says Cooper. \u201cHe had been doing some work of late which I really liked, like In Bruges, Cassandra\u2019s Dream. He was getting away from the bigger fare, doing more personal stuff. And Colin has the dark charisma that I thought would be perfect, along with the star quality that lets you buy him as a big country star.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I had a sneaking suspicion that he had spent some time in a pub. He\u2019s very communal and (I figured) he could probably sing. And sure enough, with T-Bone at the helm, we pulled a great performance out of Colin\u2014he\u2019s getting some of the best reviews of the film.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooper is not sure what his next project will be, but it seems like his acting career will be taking a back seat to writing and directing. He\u2019s mulling over adaptations, perhaps of an author he believes hasn\u2019t been well-represented in Hollywood, like William Faulkner or Flannery O\u2019Connor. Or a biography of a music legend, like Bob Marley, Miles Davis, or John Coltrane.<\/p>\n

But whatever Cooper\u2019s tackling next, it will have to wait until the Crazy Heart hubbub quiets down a bit. Already, he\u2019s had to pass on one project that sounded pretty good.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a chance to meet the Coen Brothers for their new film, but I am out promoting Crazy Heart, which is sort of a bummer,\u201d Cooper says, relating to a potential acting assignment in the Coens\u2019 ballyhooed remake of True Grit. Bridges is on board for the project as Rooster Cogburn, and Duvall, of course, co-starred in the 1969 original. “My two biggest supporters as an actor are Jeff Bridges and Robert Duvall, so there you go.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, what was it exactly that made Scott Cooper decide that going to the other side of the camera was right for him\u2014and in the process, passing on the opportunity to partake in such a juicy project?<\/p>\n

\u201cMy urge for directing comes from becoming a bridesmaid and not expressing myself artistically,\u201d says Cooper. \u201cWhen you are acting on stage, it\u2019s different, but on film, you only get a very short time to act, between cuts. And unless you have a body of work, like Jeff Bridges and Robert Duvall, it takes years and years of experience to get started.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I felt that if you\u2019d like to be a complete filmmaker, you should take a page from the guys I respect\u2026Sean Penn, Duvall, Eastwood\u2014writers and directors, although Clint doesn\u2019t write– but Ed Harris, Billy Bob Thornton\u2026complete filmmakers. And I have a long way to go, but I think I am in that camp where my talents will align.\u201d<\/p>\n

Please check-out the article “The Lost Films Of Jeff Bridges<\/a>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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