"99 Homes" Actor Andrew Garfield reveals how he prepares for his role in the film. This visceral real-estate crash drama leaves burner on so to speak as the theme of housing market crisis confronts the society.
Business Insider reports that Andrew Garfield, famous for playing the titular role ing "The Amazing Spider-Man" and such roles in "The Social Network," is playing the role of Dennis Nash in the movie "99 Homes." This film of Ramin Bahrani is about a father (David Nash) who becomes homeless together with his son and mother because they have been evicted from their home. The setting of the movie is in Florida sometime in 2010 wherein the housing market collapsed. The problem of the story escalates when Nash has found himself working for "the real estate broker who evicted him, Rick Carver (played by Michael Shannon), when he can't find any other work."
Reports say that in order for the actors and the director to find the reality of the situation of "99 Homes", they spent more time in Florida just "shadowing brokers and meeting people who were directly affected by the housing crisis." While they immerse themselves in the area, Garfield had experienced a somewhat frightening situation in one instance.
Bahrani also revealed what he realized while making the film. He said that during the market crisis there were so many scams and it was mind boggling. "The combination of these scams and the violence, I realized I was making a social film in the guise of a thriller," Bahrani added.
"99 Homes" is a movie that exhibits a some sort of shady documentary that is "forging that went on to cause foreclosures, and schemes to make a quick buck like stealing air conditioners from vacant homes." The director is also confronted with the reality that there's a violent aspect of the setting since those real estate brokers that he met in the place were carrying guns due to the fear of being evicted.
Garfield, on the other hand, needed to experience or at least know the predicament of people being evicted from their own homes. In the interview, Garfield told Business Insider that "a lot of them felt betrayed and not seen or taken care of by their country."
Star Tribune says scenes of eviction in "99 Homes" are played out repeatedly, and the scenario comes either with tears, or blood, and that each time an eviction occurs, it always reflects a "tragic sense of invasion for the turned-out families spilled onto sidewalks."
If you put yourself in the shoes of those families evicted in "99 Homes," what would do? How would you respond? Leave your comments below.