About Flour - An Interview with the Dealer.
~ Martin 'Mart' Lejeune.
Co-Director and Writer of Flour.
Martin plays the character Grenvil.

Interviewed by Richard 'Rich' Brookes.

Rich: What is your full name?

Mart: Dave.

Rich: We're not playing Star Wars at the moment, Mr. Lejeune.

Mart: No wait, wrong project.
Martin. J. Lejeune.

Rich: What is the capital of Poland?

Mart: P.

Rich: No, the correct answer is Warsaw.
Anyway,
Onto the good shit.
What inspired you to create a film about Flour?

Mart: Well being students we felt we had to do the drug cliche,
So naturally we started writing a film about cocaine addiction.
Exept then i realised Cocaine was expensive and we'd have to use flour which is less fun to snort,
So i made flour the drug.

Rich: that's the only reason?

Mart: Erm social commentary... erm bad erm somthing...

Rich: Alright,
What was the main inspiration for the script?

Mart: Not failing the course.
We basically came up with the main outline in our first meeting,
We knew we couldnt run longer than 7 minutes for course rule type reasons,
And we only had a handful of people would could convince to act in it.

Rich: Would you have run it longer, if you had the chance?

Mart: If we had longer i think we would have aimed closer to 10 or 15 mins but nothing major would have changed

Rich: Were there any key figures who influenced you in your writing, or was it all down to not wanting to fail the course?

Mart: Key figures?

Rich: Yeah, people who inspired you.

Mart: Well we had to take certain things from genre and role with them,
The way the exposition is given to have it explained so we can get on with things after that scene is very Juarrasic Park,
The comedy is very Python or Douglas Adams,
At one point we were going to play it very dark and have people playing the comedy straight faced like the League of Gents, but we desided it wouldnt be as funny.

Rich: And, I mean, with characters like Grenvil, it has a very League of Gents twist.

Mart: Well we still have the characters saying "this is a bit odd" where League of Gents takes their world very serious like nothing's out of the ordanary.

Martin Lejeune is 18, and Living in some southern place. It's his Birthday at the End of August, so be sure to send him a Birthday Card.

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