Tyson, a revealing look...

TYSON Directors Statement Mike Tyson, a figure of staggering complexity and iconic impact on the world stage, has been a friend since 1985 when he came by the set of THE PICK UP ARTIST to meet Robert Downey. We spent hours talking-- about love, madness, crime, sports, sex, boxing, money, and death. I was left with a certainty that I would eventually want to use him in some future film. Fourteen years later, I offered Tyson a role in BLACK AND WHITE which involved resisting successive, aggressive sexual overtures by both Downey and Brooke Shields, and, in another scene, the providing of advice to a Wu Tang Clan gangster on murder and its possible consequences of a life in prison. Three years later, I used Tyson again in a street scene with Neve Campbell and me in WHEN WILL I BE LOVED. For years I have been looking for a project that would allow for a new form of presentation suggested by current radically shifting and radically impatient responses to modern life and media. I wanted to make a movie that would serve the thematic complexity and multiple layers of character and behavior by splitting the screen into separate images moving in shape, size, and rhythm, complicated by overlapping sources of dialogue and music. A full portrait film with Mike Tyson as its subject not only allowed for the exercise of that technique but actually demanded it. I approached Larry McConkey, the world master of steadicam operators and asked him to try a two-camera (both the Panasonic ...

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