How to give Budha an Indie-boner:

How to Give Budha an Indie-boner:

1) Cast Christian Bale
2) Cast Steve Zhan
3) Have Warner Herzog direct
4) Have subject matter about pre-vietnam Laos
5) Give it a bad-assed name like "Rescue Dawn"

And it helps when you make Steve Zhan say things like this too:

"We were rehearsing and Peter had the camera and sometimes Peter rolls while we're rehearsing, and as we were coming up on this ridge, and it was all jungle and it had been raining all day. Christian turns around and says something and we keep going. We were rehearsing it, and as Christian turns around, we heard this huge loud noise and we turned, and this… I dunno. In Kentucky, it would be a 300-year-old sycamore [does big crashing sounds] just down this hill…BOOM! Like 50 yards in front of us, not even that, and we all just stopped, and Christian and I kept going, and we kept walking and Werner was like, "Were you filming?" Unbelievable, this thing growing for 300 years and we just happened to be there with Werner Herzog and he doesn't get it on tape. You can tell he was like, "I can't believe we didn't get that on film" which would have been truly brilliant."

Wow, awesome set story and manages to reference his connection to Kentucky in one fell swoop. WHY AM I THE ONLY STEVE ZHAN FAN!?! YOU PEOPLE KNOW WHO HE IS! YOU KNOW HIS FACE, YOU JUST DON'T KNOW HIS NAME. DAMN YOU AMERICA! LET'S MAKE STEVE ZHAN PARIS HILTON, THAT WOULD BE INFINITELY MORE INTERESTING.

Rescue Dawn's Christian Bale & Steve Zahn - ComingSoon.net