{"id":72238,"date":"2022-01-25T15:11:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T09:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/2nd-chance-director-on-making-a-doc-about-an-inventor-who-shot-himself-almost-200-times\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T15:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T09:43:21","slug":"2nd-chance-director-on-making-a-doc-about-an-inventor-who-shot-himself-almost-200-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/2nd-chance-director-on-making-a-doc-about-an-inventor-who-shot-himself-almost-200-times\/","title":{"rendered":"‘2nd Chance Director’ on Making a Doc about an Inventor who Shot Himself Almost 200 Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The new documentary \u201c2nd Chance,\u201d director Ramin Bahrani brings a story to the screen that seems almost too outlandish to be true \u2014 a self-made tycoon who invented the bulletproof vest in 1969, and used himself for target practice.<\/p>\n

The film, which premiered at this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival, tells the eccentric story of inventor Richard Davis, including anecdotes about how he proved that the vest worked by shooting himself at point blank range almost 200 times, and went on to launch body armor company Second Chance. <\/p>\n

Bahrani said that while the wild stories embedded in Davis\u2019 life made for a lively documentary, the inventor was still an \u201cunreliable narrator\u201dOf all kinds. <\/p>\n

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\u201cHe doesn\u2019t always reveal everything,\u201dBahrani spoke to Steve Pond at Sundance Studio. \u201cNot just the facts of what happened, [as] he perceives them in a different way. He wasn\u2019t always fully willing or able to go into certain emotional areas, so really the side characters became excellent foils to Richard.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, Bahrani said there were times when he didn\u2019t quite believe what Davis was saying in the interviews.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were moments when I pressed him a few times to get him to reveal something that factually, I knew was true \u2014 I had seen documents \u2014 but he wouldn\u2019t go there,\u201dThe director stated. \u201cSomething is revealed in the middle of the film that we realized \u2018my god Richard made this whole thing up\u2019 that is quite important to his character [and] who he is as a person.\u201d<\/p>\n

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However, determined to present a more balanced retelling of Davis\u2019 life, \u201c2nd Chance\u201d spans multiple decades, using interviews from all kinds of people in Davis\u2019 life from his son and second wife to a teenager who had a deadly encounter with the entrepreneur decades prior.<\/p>\n

Bahrani also said that while he didn\u2019t agree with Davis\u2019 philosophies, he \u201cliked him as a person,\u201d a sentiment that was shared with several other people in the eccentric\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

\u201cInterestingly, even people [Davis] hurt still seemed to care about him, which I liked about him,\u201dThe director stated. \u201cIt made me more drawn and fascinated with this man and his contradictions because he did such amazingly good things, but he also did very harmful things and that made him a compelling character.\u201d<\/p>\n

Find out more \u201c2nd Chance\u201dWatch the video below, directed by Ramin Bahrani.<\/p>\n

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The new documentary \u201c2nd Chance,\u201d director Ramin Bahrani brings a story to the screen that seems almost too outlandish to be true \u2014 a self-made tycoon who invented the bulletproof vest in 1969, and used himself for target practice. The film, which premiered at this year\u2019s Sundance Film Festival, tells the eccentric story of inventor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":72239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1643103717_2nd-Chance-Director-on-Making-a-Doc-About-an-Inventor.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}