Article: Men?(interview with motion picture director Neil LaBute)(Interview)

Some people admire Neil LaBute's films. Others are horrified by the kinds of men he makes movies about, saying that it's a reactionary, sensationalist, careless vision. Is it? Here Lucida Rosenfeld talks to the controversial director about the male maelstrom

LUCINDA ROSENFELD: Your films paint modern masculinity as heinous, particularly through the characters of Chad [played by Aaron Eckhart] in In the Company of Men [1997] and Cary [Jason Patric] in Your Friends & Neighbors [1998]. Is it that assholes make good movie characters, or do you see yourself telling it the way it is?

NEIL LABUTE: The depictions aren't necessarily definitive, but I think ...

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