Creating the Women in Trouble
When you first discover a film surrounded by a mainly female cast, would you automatically think that it was written and directed by a man? Would you raise an eyebrow even more if you knew he was one of the writers on the 2006 film Snakes on a Plane? Those thoughts immediately came to this reporter’s head when I first got introduced to the film Women in Trouble. The wonderful thing, after watching the film, was later on catching up with director and writer Sebastian Gutierrez. The director was able to let me pick his brain for a moment on what sort of idea blossomed into this feature length picture.
Although he has more writing credits to his name than directing, his newest creation, Women in Trouble and it’s sequels have given him more power to bend the series to his will. However, his fascination with topic of women merely stemmed from his own family life more than anything. Gutierrez goes off about,”…growing up in a house full of women. Lovely, neurotic, crazy women who are running around always in a rush,” being his key source of inspiration for writing the script. That further explains his interest in the exact locales the ten women are put into throughout their situations within the one day the film is set in.
“I was interested in those private moments that we don’t usually see. In movies we usually cut away when we get to that point. Now they get up and go to the bathroom, what are they talking about? What’s the secret that they’re sharing?” Although Gutierrez appears to make a trip to the restroom sound like a secret club ritual, there is that point where we are never completely satisfied with our hunger for knowing more about the opposite sex.
“I’ve always been fascinated by women, you know. They go to the bathroom together, all the time, and they do all of these things together that men don’t do. I always wonder what’s happening there.” Gutierrez definitely does wonder, as some of the women get in hairy situations, like being trapped in an elevator or dealing with infidelity. Throwing them into these difficult situations would clearly bring out the most emotionally from each actress, but also showing the curiosity about the nature of women from his viewpoint. “I find that women have emotions much more accessible than men. So, in a story like this, for them to go from zero to a hundred pretty fast is a very useful thing.”
The overall fascination and wonder that Sebastian Gutierrez ended up turning into his own knowledge once he sat down and created Women in Trouble. Now the director is already done with initial filming of the sequel Elektra Luxx and is in the middle of pre-production of the third feature in the series entitled Women in Ecstasy. One thing is for certain, Gutierrez does seem to know what he’s talking about when it comes to women, and you can see that in limited release on the big screen this Friday, November 13th.
Well done lady. Well done. great work
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