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ARETH EDWARDS HAS A DILEMMA. HIS FIRST FILM AS A DIRECTOR IS CALLED MONSTERS, AND IT DOES CONTAIN ITS FAIR SHARE OF GIGANTIC ALIEN BEASTIES, BUT THE TITLE BE- LIES THE FACT THAT AT ITS HEART IS A COMPELLING ROMANCE. SO DO YOU SELL IT AS A LOVE STORY WITH MONSTERS, OR A MONSTER MOVIE WITH A LOVE STORY?


“It’s a really tough one,” Edwards acknowledges by phone


from his home in London, England. “When you try to get money to make a film, the producers, the first thing they say is, ‘Why is this different? Why do we want to make this? It’s got to be different.’ And you explain exactly why it would be different, and if you’re lucky you go make a film that ends up


being different. Then when you present it back to them and to the marketing and sales people, they’re like, ‘Oh my God, what have you done? You’ve made something differ- ent! How are we going to market this?’ I get depressed because I think, ‘What are you trying to tell me? You’re try- ing to tell me that in filmmaking every film anyone ever


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