A Vivid-bound Spike Jonze on smashing cameras and smashing success

By Andrew Purcell
Updated May 27 2016 - 3:13am, first published May 21 2016 - 12:00am
Spike Jonze with Max Records on the set of <i>Where the Wild Things Are</i>. Photo: Supplied
Spike Jonze with Max Records on the set of <i>Where the Wild Things Are</i>. Photo: Supplied
Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore in <i>Her</i> directed by Spike Jonze. Photo: Supplied.
Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore in <i>Her</i> directed by Spike Jonze. Photo: Supplied.
Film director Spike Jonze.
Film director Spike Jonze.

The last time Spike Jonze broke a camera, he was skateboarding backwards along a smooth stretch of Shanghai pavement, filming Joaquin Phoenix running through a crowd on the set of Her. Many of the extras chosen to people his shot didn't speak English, and on take three, one man misunderstood his instructions, faced the wrong way, and didn't see the director coming. Jonze rammed into him at full tilt and went down hard on the cement.

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