{"id":18028,"date":"2014-11-17T04:11:27","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T04:11:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-11-17T04:11:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T04:11:27","slug":"Matthew-McConaughey-on-Gus-Van-Sant-s-The-Sea-of-Trees--It-s-one-hell-of-a-survival-story-","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=18028","title":{"rendered":"Matthew McConaughey on Gus Van Sant&#8217;s &#8216;The Sea of Trees&#8217;: &#8216;It&#8217;s one hell of a survival story&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In The Sea of Trees Matthew McConaughey plays Arthur, a man who has lost his way in life and treks into the thick forest at the foot of Mount Fuji looking for existential answers. Sounds right up the philosophical alley of Rust Cohle in True Detective. \u201cThey are very different projects and characters yet they are both poetic,\u201d McConaughey tells EW. \u201cI say another title for this film is \u2018You\u2019ve got to go through annihilation to get to salvation\u2019. It\u2019s one hell of a survival story.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gus Van Sant is directing\u2014currently shooting in rural Massachusetts and then Japan\u2014and it costars Ken Watanabe (above, standing) and Naomi Watts. McConaughey says Gus Van Sant is the right man for the material. \u201cGus is a wonderful voyeur and a really gentle soul of a man. He\u2019s got the right sensibility for a film like this. He listens and considers any ideas that I throw at him and I undeniably trust the direction he gives me,\u201d he says. \u201cHe\u2019s a lot of fun to create with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>McConaughey also has a prediction for how audiences will react after seeing The Sea of Trees. \u201cEveryone is going to leave the theater and have their own walk and talk through the parking lot to muse about its meanings, what it was about and what it wasn\u2019t, what was real and what was a dream.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SOURCE:<\/strong><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/insidemovies.ew.com\/2014\/09\/11\/matthew-mcconaughey-on-gus-van-sants-the-sea-of-trees-its-one-hell-of-a-survival-story\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sea of Trees <\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7f_Ie6AfTco\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Sea of Trees Matthew McConaughey plays Arthur, a man who 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