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his date, left, to
his girlfriend,
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to watch dozens of romantic comedies
"because all of a sudden, I was living
and filming one." Here is some more
of what he had to say about his dat-
ing/movie making experience.
JN: Your film has a nice, breezy feel-
ing and really does seem as if you
caught something as it was happen-
ing. How difficult did it turn out to
be to make it look so effortless?
MB: It took us a year in the editing
room to take 120 hours of footage and
piece together a story, and I had two
really talented editors. We knew the
basic story because it really happened,
but it took us a year to make a movie
that you would be interested in watch-
ing because who cares what Myles
Berkowitz is like on a date? The only
way you care is if we tell the story in a
funny, entertaining way that you can
identify with and say, "Hey, that
reminds me of me."
JN: When you were starting to go on
these dates, what was the criteria for
the women you would be dating?
MB: Anyone who would go out with
me. I was very tough about that. If
you weren't going to go out with me,
then damn it, I wasn't going to go out
with you.
JN: Did you have it in mind to
specifically date Jewish women?
MB: Well, 'I was already in my early
30s, I had already been married, and
I will tell you that it wasn't as big an
issue for me at that point in my life
as it was earlier. Probably because
when you're in your 30s and single,
you're facing a life of being alone and
suddenly some of your requirements
aren't as important to you anymore.
Even though religion is a very impor-
tant requirement, I was more con-
cerned, as many people my age are,
with finding someone that I could
fall in love with.
JN: How did your marketing degree
help you in 20 Dates?
MB: I realized that there were hundreds
of movies made by studios and inde-
pendent companies every year and I felt
from a marketing perspective I had to
make a movie that would be so unique
that it would stand out from a business
standpoint to a company, and then to
the media, and then to audiences.
JN: 20 Dates isn't strictly a documen-
tary. Do you have a phrase to
describe it?
MB: It's a screwball/romantic comedy
that documents dating, single life and
guerilla filmmaking. I think that's the
most accurate way to describe it. It's
the first romantic docu-comedy. I cre-
ated my own genre there.
JN: Would you qualify 20 Dates as a
date movie?
MB: Absolutely. Because people who
hate dating, or have nightmares about
how they were on dates, or are living
through the horrors of dating can go
see this movie, watch me on dates and
leave the theater feeling very good
about themselves.
JN: Do you think 20 Dates is a corn-
mentary on romantic illusions?
MB: I set out for it to be that, and I
contradict my opening premise which is:
There's no such thing as a Hollywood
ending when it comes to romance. And
then, not only do I meet a wonderful
woman, but she agrees to go out with
me, we fall in love and we're engaged.
It's the typical, classic Hollywood ending
to this story. I didn't think those existed.
So what I started out to prove, I actually
disproved, and that sometimes magic
does happen in our lives, because it hap-
pened in mine.
20 Dates opens today at the
Maple Art Theatre.
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