Steven Soder-burnt: Retiring Director Says He Used His ?Last Good Idea? While Making ?Side Effects?

As Steven Soderbergh said at the Film Society of Lincoln Center's preview screening of Side Effects on Wednesday, "There?s Movie A and there?s Movie B and there?s Movie C." �The director was making the apt point that Side Effects could have been a heavy-handed movie about a) Big Pharma or b) �insider trading, two of the film's main motifs. �But Soderbergh chose c), �a much subtler and entertaining third path, and judging from the Manhattan audience's enthusiastic reaction to the picture, his instincts did not fail him. �

Following the screening, Soderbergh took part in a Q&A session with cast members, Rooney Mara, Jude Law and Vinessa Shaw and Side Effects screenwriter Scott Z. Burns. When one moviegoer asked the director, "Did you ever feel like you might have missed an opportunity for a bigger conversation about Big Pharma?" Soderbergh responded: �"I didn?t want to see that. What I loved about what Scott [Burns] did is that that issue was just a Trojan horse to hide a thriller inside of. I feel like, as a movie?that you stand in line and pay to see?I didn?t want to see a serious movie about Big Pharma. I really didn?t. I feel like I can read about that. It?s all over the news. It?s everywhere."

Alluding to his self-proclaimed retirement from filmmaking Soderbergh continued, "That may be a result of the fact that I?m in the twilight of my career. I honestly wanted to make something that...was connected to movies I saw when I was growing up that I thought were fun."

Burns chimed in to explain he generally starts "writing from a place where there?s something I?m upset or passionate about. So, obviously I…

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