LOS ANGELES—Director J.C. Chandor’s latest feature, “A Most Violent Year,” might sound like just another gun-happy action pic, but the slow-burning drama was actually born out of a staunch reluctance to continue presenting violence as entertainment. And it might never have happened if Chandor hadn’t needed a job.
“Now it seems quaint to say it, but it wasn’t very long ago when I didn’t know if I was ever going to make a movie again,” said Chandor, 41, who started panicking while editing his second film, “All Is Lost” (his first film was “Margin Call” in 2011).
“I was like, ‘I just made a movie about one guy on a boat.’ I didn’t know how it was going to turn out. I didn’t know if I was ever going to work again, frankly.”
Chandor resented the fact that violence could be used for entertainment, especially considering what was going on in his own backyard.
