In The Rep, Greenwood appears as one of two brothers caught in a futuristic Sophie’s Choice dilemma. Set in a dystopian future, a pandemic has created the situation in which there is a shortage of medication. The government has allotted only one vaccine dose per family. A representative travels the countryside deciding who will live. The film takes place entirely in the family home and chooses to focus on the emotional turmoil of a family faced with this harrowing decision. The actors: Jesse Collin, Greg Fiddler, Saleste Mele, and Greenwood all provide strong performances with which to carry the film. Once again, Troy developed the script (with Jesse Collin) proving that he contributes as much to the development of the story as he does to its enactment. Describing his character and the action onscreen, Troy communicates, “There’s are argument between Jude and Bram that escalates when Jude (my character) tries to take the vaccine for himself but Bram’s daughter enters the scene and Jude has a change of heart. However, it’s too much for ‘The Rep’ and he tazes Jude and leaves with the vaccine. The tazing part was difficult to pull off – seizing and falling realistically without injuring myself. Luckily, I had some gymnastics training when I was younger and that helped out a lot. The cast and crew found my twitching on the floor as ‘The Rep’ leaves quite humorous on the day.” Troy Greenwood possesses the ability to create both tragedy and humor in front of the camera and off camera, whether he is trying or not. Perhaps this is why he seems so natural and confident in front of the lens. There is an innate and quiet ease to his writing and performing that is unavoidable. The FAFC has provided proof of this multiple times.
Film Actors Fight Club (FAFC) is a brilliant name…mostly because the images that it conjures reject everything that most of us think about actors. The 1999 film Fight Club, inspired by the Chuck Palahniuk novel is a rejection of consumerism, social norms, and entitlement. While many of these are points that the FAFC might share with Tyler Durden (the ID to the main character in the book and film), they vastly differ in one facet; the FAFC is very self-aware when it comes to how they are viewed and how they view themselves. While Palahniuk made fun of the disassociation and aggression that young white males feel in society (or did he?), the FAFC is more than eager to poke fun at themselves while simultaneously creating serious and emotional works. Actor/writer/producer Troy Greenwood is a vibrant and essential participant in the FAFC, seen in films such as; Diamond Planet, Widow, and The Rep. His many roles and performances in these productions display a seasoned professional who is as effortless in channeling drama as comedy. If one were to make a comparison between the two stars of Fight Club, Greenwood would appear much closer to Edward Norton and his career, sometimes dark and brooding while at other times hilarious in his ridiculousness. Greenwood is the type of actor who often communicates more in a quiet look and temperament than a boisterous approach. His association with the FAFC has provided Greenwood with an eclectic number of avenues with which to display his wide range. Also pleasing to the viewer is the incredibly high production value in the films of this Canadian “group.” One look at these films will convince any audience that the FAFC productions are as professional, accessible, and entertaining as anything the Hollywood and New York industries are manifesting. The first major attention that the FAFC received was at the 2012 Calgary Film Challenge, where their film Diamond Planet took home a prize. The script was written by Greenwood who also played multiple roles in the film. Diamond Planet is FAFC’s way of making fun of the film industry. The backdrop of a film class being lectured by Hollywood producer Ollie Swagger (pun intended) is the vehicle for introducing a series of ridiculous, yet amazingly produced, movie trailers. The production quality is so high and the acting so exemplary in these spoof trailers, it is easy to find yourself thinking that someone has just spliced a high budget trailer into the film. Three minutes later you are shocked back into the classroom only to find yourself quickly transported into another trailer. Spanning genres such as romance, action, and suspense, FAFC proves their ability to create across all lines of entertainment. One of the funniest and impressive of these trailers is for the film Guess Who. The crime/suspense film trailer stars Troy Greenwood as a detective investigating the murder of an unknown woman, hence Guess Who. The black and white format assists Troy and the other cast members (along with an impressive soundtrack) to cement a wall of sincerity in a morbid tale, stark in its melodrama. Guess Who is adept in reflecting back to the audience the humor of their fascination with these types of films, cutting to the heart with surgical skill. Guess Who is as eager to reflect this absurdity back at filmmakers as the trailer is a film noir spoof based on the board game; an obvious nod to the film industry’s willingness to base a premise on any mundane concept that might sell (it has been done many times). Chris Bragg, producer and director of Diamond Planet for FAFC comments, “I met Troy Greenwood years ago when the Film Acting Fight Club collective was still in its infancy. At that point he was an established actor. Troy took a lead role on Diamond Planet, taking some ideas from a group session and coming back to the group a week later with a script that weaved them all together. Again, he stepped into various productions duties during the collaborative shoot, even directing one of the trailer scenes that gets flashed to in the story, on top of playing a major character in the film. The success of Diamond Planet at the Calgary Film Challenge was a major turning point for the group, solidifying it as a creative force in the Calgary community.” In a complete 180 degree turn of sentiment and role, Greenwood wrote the script for the FAFC film Widow. The film, screened at the Calgary Underground Film Festival, is a revenge tale in the same vein as Death Wish or Taken. In Widow, following a horrific home invasion, a distraught husband goes on a rampage to find justice for his murdered wife. Troy appears on camera as one of the hoodlums in an epic slow motion sequence but found most of his efforts focused off camera for Widow. When writing and presenting the story, Troy prefers to take an approach in which all the answers are not so obvious for the audience. He relates, “We wanted a jarring and unique opening sequence so we had this scene where a man is out for what seems like an ordinary jog and then this random person walks up and shoots him. Through the progression of the story we reveal that this random shooter is in fact a husband out for revenge and the jogger was one of the perpetrators. Finding the right park to make for this epic opening proved difficult. We wanted something with levels and movement so that there was more than just a man on a pathway. I remembered an old pathway that comes out from out from under an overpass and weaves its way back and forth through the layered landscape. The ebbs in the pathway and the darkness of the tunnel below the underpass created some really interesting cinematic moments that really draw you into the film before stopping abruptly with a gunshot to the chest.”
In The Rep, Greenwood appears as one of two brothers caught in a futuristic Sophie’s Choice dilemma. Set in a dystopian future, a pandemic has created the situation in which there is a shortage of medication. The government has allotted only one vaccine dose per family. A representative travels the countryside deciding who will live. The film takes place entirely in the family home and chooses to focus on the emotional turmoil of a family faced with this harrowing decision. The actors: Jesse Collin, Greg Fiddler, Saleste Mele, and Greenwood all provide strong performances with which to carry the film. Once again, Troy developed the script (with Jesse Collin) proving that he contributes as much to the development of the story as he does to its enactment. Describing his character and the action onscreen, Troy communicates, “There’s are argument between Jude and Bram that escalates when Jude (my character) tries to take the vaccine for himself but Bram’s daughter enters the scene and Jude has a change of heart. However, it’s too much for ‘The Rep’ and he tazes Jude and leaves with the vaccine. The tazing part was difficult to pull off – seizing and falling realistically without injuring myself. Luckily, I had some gymnastics training when I was younger and that helped out a lot. The cast and crew found my twitching on the floor as ‘The Rep’ leaves quite humorous on the day.” Troy Greenwood possesses the ability to create both tragedy and humor in front of the camera and off camera, whether he is trying or not. Perhaps this is why he seems so natural and confident in front of the lens. There is an innate and quiet ease to his writing and performing that is unavoidable. The FAFC has provided proof of this multiple times.
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