And a little 'that does not turn Cimino nothing and we find it hard to believe. One of the greatest American talents in the last 30 years has an incredibly rebellious and wild spirit, so that is hard to answer questions fully without wandering. Evidently, the excesses have broadened perceptions because often delirious. However, proves to be a great film culture. Meeting in the Auditorium in Rome made an entry was not even Keith Richards (both ironically said, "and now I present my band!") and was not provided by the interviewers conduct, indulging in thoughts, tributes to his great love to Luchino Visconti, John Ford, all 'hatred of Dino De Laurentis and telling amusing anecdotes. It is not a canonical interview. It 'a river of words more than anything else. Once you said that to understand the cinema do not need training or reading manuals. Just read the Nabokov Lectures on Russian Literature of the film to understand, why?
The last time I came here in Rome did not yet exist Auditorium and I hope that this place is a good omen because it finally came time for a rebirth of Italian cinema. Especially in the golden years in New York is anxiously awaiting the new movie of the masters of world cinema Fellini, Antonioni, Visconti and others. And we are excited waiting to see the new Visconti and Fellini and I think it's time for return to Roma and Cinecitta being the homeland of world cinema. If there are students here, know that the responsibility for this rebirth is yours. Crare that cinema is up to you that the world is waiting and you need a leader like Alberto Balbero (!!!) who is a lover of cinema like no other. E 'married to the film and every filmmaker meets him loves him.
Cinema is too important for Italians to belong to those who are on the right side of the fence policy, bureaucrats who until recently worked for the post and keeping us only to curry favor the powerful. We dedicate the future of Italian cinema to freedom from politics. As you can see I do not follow the rules. The rules do not follow neither left nor right I'm for freedom.
He said there are three directors that you admire, the Trinity, as he calls them, Ford, Kurosawa and Visconti ...
I swear that I answer, but first let me say one thing about the audience that the scene you have seen was filmed in Montana (referring to a scene from a 20 gauge for the specialist where Clint Eastwood runs in a cornfield ed.) I needed a large church with a single room and a wheat field. The tried but could not find the field of wheat or could not find a church big enough. Then we found the great church that we liked best and we have planted the wheat field and from there I called a farmer on purpose, and every week to ask if the grass was grown. Eventually arrived at the correct height we started shooting. It 'was a perfect scene.
Working with Eastwood was one of my best experiences in cinema. My love for Clint and his work for him as a person and is great almost as much as what I feel for Luchino Visconti. So I got to respond by doing a little 'street, forgive me the teachers. Regarding the trinity I consider them to Visconti's father, John Ford and Kurosawa's son the holy spirit. This gives you the feeling perfectly. The thing I like a lot of these authors is the absolute attention to detail. I do not think you can find more details in the films of Visconti and Kurosawa. And I will make the examples in particular. Know the films of Visconti and Ludwig. And 'one of my favorites. There is a scene with Romy Schneider and Helmut Berger, interpretations unparalleled. I always thought it was a biography of Ludwig ugliness of Luchino Visconti and when you see a scene Ludwig who brutalizes and let go when he is visited by Elizabeth in the castle and he comes from the most powerful woman her age and is in its full splendor, and he does not want to see it as it is reduced and refuses to give him sitting there and this servant of Ludwig says to put her away and we never see her up close, just in the distance, which leaves this castle: you do not just leave the castle but the life of Ludwig and forever Ludwig leaves when he is completely lost in drinking ruined his teeth, not even the shadow of the man who calls his name and while we understand his love for her and do not think anyone can shoot a scene without having had a similar experience. Earlier Ludwig, for example, he is forced to go to a place in Germany to meet her family in the aftermath of the coronation in Monaco and you convince yourself that it is his duty to go, especially because there will find her. When it meets all the family and everything is incredibly boring, because he is a young king, and for some reason you miss this. In cinema, as Michael Collins when he begins to negotiate the Ireland and England. Salvatore Giuliano was too young, Romeo and Juliet were young and only when Zeffirelli made his version of the public knew that there was this particular sexual attraction between two young men. There were many versions of Romeo and Juliet but never with young actors. Romeo was in a ridiculous tights and then a few Carampane Hollywood was Juliet who said " Romeo Romeo Wherefore art thou Romeo . It was ridiculous and we never had great success in American cinema, but when Zeffirelli chose two young actors realized that it was sex. These two guys wanted to be with passion and this is because at that time the Americans understood why the family members were hostile, and loved them. They were impulsive, as are the boys, with storms hormonal and crazy as the young, the same as the same as Julie and Ludwig. It 'important to the figure of Ludwig and Empress of Austria and understand why she was bored by the company of so many older leaves Elizabeth and tries to do it and go to the circus and finds it there while riding a horse with that dress riding black with a very masculine cut with a black hat and then when you see face to face both of them are dressed in black, with the same hat, cloak and look like identical twins. Visconti had made the same eyebrows to be identical to the idea of \u200b\u200btwins, Romy Schneider had never been so lean, Helmut said to me that forced her to Luchino go on a diet with a glass of wine and a biscuit. It has never been so lean and look the same when they approach, it is difficult to distinguish an image of perfect beauty. Elizabeth was the identical hat with a diamond a brilliant which lies on the other side than when he is in profile in front of him. This is the beginning of the film, three hours after the movie ends, when Ludwig has lost his throne and is under house arrest on the lake, is now old and no longer nice and tries to convince the psychiatrist to take a walk against rule and wanted it confined to this is the night of his death and goes with a walking stick with winter clothes and he wears a different hat from the beginning and is a senior, nothing to do with the elegance of the first, as a brown hat, but that pin on his hat is there first, and then goes to kill himself. And I assure you that nobody could have imagined such a thing insignificant as a jewel to indicate this step. It was typical of him. Do you like Maria Callas? Visconti's first experience with Callas, the director was in the background and the composer was on top but after that Visconti was busy changing the work he has transformed the history of 50/100 and advancing years. And you know that the stars work, as the dancers tend to have a particular gesture, working with Visconti and Callas learned that there are not empty gestures, each gesture must have a meaning, or there must be no gestures. The link between the gesture and the meaning of the text. Emphasize the manual and give attention to the character and the situation it is. Stretching his arm can mean a lot of things. So it was an extraordinary teacher.
The Hunter is one of the few films from those years was present for generations. What fascinates you about that movie?
Because it is true.
In the scene you have seen (when the group of friends can be found in the pub in the middle of the industrial zone ed) I have tried to emulate Visconti, De Niro wearing the hat that I bought it from a truck driver who I have met in a bar where I had to turn. Several times I took things from people for using them on set. That is not the work of costume designer but a true hat with real dirt, real greasy, sweat is true of the type that wore and the bar is a faithful reconstruction of a bar that I found elsewhere and the reason we are out of the gates of the steel bar is because there was no bar and there was an empty building. We found a bar and we have reconstructed exactly in every detail including the curved beams. So if you happen to those parts you can recognize it because it exists, is true. So you do not have the impression that the stuff is fake and who drink the steel workers in this area was Rowling Rock Beer and brandy Kustler, economy stuff, then threw down the brandy and a bottle of this beer and sometimes took a submarine which meant filling a glass of beer, and immerse ourselves a glass of brandy and the idea was to drink them both simultaneously. The first time in film history we see the actors who sing a song on the radio that was then copied many times from that famous Tom Cruise (Magnolia perhaps he means? Ed.) You do not see here, but Robert has a rifle with a leather strap that I got from a truck driver and paid him to use that thing. That's why this film is appreciated by people. There are no tricks. I think that in a movie like Ludwig where you want to show the life of an aristocracy in a period in my small town and I've tried the reality of these workers in the working class, and there was Visconti I am there.
In this scene (in the Year of the Dragon, in which Mickey Rourke takes his revenge of his dead wife ed) the woman is left and then killed her and then himself in an act of rage killing everyone. But then something has changed in this movie ...
And I remember that Dino De Laurentis, who produced the film hated the scene in detail and all lescene with his wife. He liked the scenes with his girlfriend and there's a Chinese story about it that I could tell but it is too pornographic. But despite her rebelliousness now I explain why this scene was made. When we chose Dino budget was furious " but nobody would do this movie with this money even Richard Fleischer " (henceforth always imitates the hoarse voice of De Laurentis), a great director of b-movies who was known for its speed, and then told me that I would not have done. Then I said " as I suggest we do? "because when one has to do with a madman must use these means ... and I asked him calmly to tell him what to do." Take all this stuff with his wife! "He always said" the dough is like woman, you must take when it is hot! "then a mentality like this could never tolerate a wife smart, so I said" Ok then we remove scenes with his wife and make a bet "and his partner, Fred (question Fred Caruso, assistant to De Laurentis ed), " No, not Dino! " and I said " not worry, we do a good bet " because talk to him enough that he was betting that "what . I told him $ 10,000 in cash and he asked me what you bet. While Fred tried to dissuade him, I said " you say that I will not have time to meet deadlines and I will give you the exact duration " as I did " and if there are 11 scenes with his wife and if you are not convinced that I'll even die for each day of delay, then you can take a scene "Fred always behind it was to desist. " Ok, we bet . I told him to write and report, it took an official document. Fred said he wanted the law by doing this. He called a secretary for the agreement of a payment of $ 10,000 in cash in exchange would have raised the scenes, he was happy because it was a movie and could bet on it with the chance to win. The making of the film began in Vancouver where there is a large Chinese community that we needed. Dino had his studio in North Carolina in a horrible place in Wilmington. You know that you make a burger at McDonald's in two minutes is not it? A Wilmington put us an hour. Let alone work. There was a reason that tax Dino had convinced to go there. He was so convinced that I would never be able to meet deadlines so that I built the scenery, with his wife, after being in Vancouver, Toronto, New York. Once there, we had 8 days in advance and the first thing was to shoot scenes with his wife who were not ready and I said " Dino, we do? Let's take a vacation to the crew? "and went on a rampage and had come from Italy flew hundreds of workers who worked day and night to get everything ready on time. And we shot this scene at the end and when we finished shooting the film we had always 3 days ahead and he was thrilled. I told him he owed me money and he " that money? "and showed him the document and it became dark in the face with a look of hell and told him that volevo100000 U.S. dollars cash and he said it looked like a volcano" by Fred money. "Fred was always there. qualsasi He asked what Dino. When I met him at the airport and he had two heavy bags seemed that there was lead and I said" what the hell you Fred in the bag "and he" mozzarella for Dino! "
In the film there are often mountains in this scene from" Desperate Hours, a remake of the movie by William Wyler, she takes liberties with the original. Why is turned so ?
's different in every part of the original because it is completely rewritten. E' because it is hard to talk about the film I was most criticized and the head of MGM, and "our dear friend Dino" we talked about, they have destroyed in editing. This scene that has survived, is no longer a memory of that film was beautiful and above all the mountains of the park in Zion National Park. Only the color of the rocks shows you how wonderful it was and as far as the mountains I quote something that John Ford said that three things were nice to shoot a mountain, a running horse and a couple dancing. And in my films there is always a mountain, a horse and someone dancing. For example, Henry Fonda and the quiet man who dances with the horse and the dance of the soldiers in Fort Apache and the scene They Were Unxpendeble with John Wayne, The Sacrificed to Bataan (not to be confused on Heroes of the Pacific Dymytryk the same year, again with John Wayne and always on the same topic). The title is significant because it is a tribute to Ford's Navy. During World War II the U.S. Navy ... of which Ford was an admiral, he loved the sea and the boats ended when they went by boat to turn to drink and play in Hawaii and is a tribute to these boats called PT boats ... if you remember Kennedy was a master of these boats when he was president and gave his friends remember a pin on which was depicted the symbol of these inbarcazioni and who was on board felt pride because it was one of the missions in a risky enough mitagliatrice from 30 mm to destroy them and they were used as light vehicles. They were suicide missions, they carried weapons because they did blow up enemy ships and the navy did not mind the loss of boats that were cheap and Ford tells the story of these men. A film with no easy sentimentality, no simple melodrama with a cast that gave the best I could give. Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, and these ships. The marina will not matter to these people and these men and what touches the heart of this scene because they are expendable, They Were Expendable, be confronted with figures that death does not matter in time for fun and touching.
Gates of Heaven went well in Europe and in America, why?
The explanation that I do now is not the same as before. It 's hard for me to see him now seeing these scenes so beautiful. And 'since I made this film are no longer able to see him but the thing I want you to know is that it is a true story and is the first time in the history of America after the terrible genocide of Idiani of America that American citizens legalize a massacre. It 's true that America will never be resolved until he has passed this question. We have a very heavy debt that we have not yet paid. And then it was people who lived there before our arrival. This film tells the story of immigrants who arrived in America after the first wave of settlers from all over the world, Russia, Ireland, England, France. This is the first time the U.S. government, which officially gave power to the army to go and kill people, people selected as victims. It tells about the life of this community of immigrants who are killed by hunger starved. I remind you that dance is everywhere from the bottom, like rap music that comes in the casting and not high society., Rock 'n' comes from the bottom roll, blue grass music from below, the jazz comes from the lowest step and not by the highest and the beginning of the film Gates of Heaven where you can dance a waltz the Blue Danube, a dance company. Previously, long before the invention of the waltz is danced the mazurka dance in high society that we see in some of John Ford westerns. Hard to believe that when he composed the Blue Danube was considered revolutionary because for the first time, European society had a contact between man and woman as it is difficult to believe now, but then was a kind of scandal, but as we know then enormously popular in Europe and even the women ate two or three pairs of shoes in one evening and never before we had moved such a speed. At the beginning of The Gates of Heaven you see a scene in which the Anglo-Saxon tradition of high society dance to Harvard and Yale had as you know Oxford as a model of London and the scene depicts these pairs beautifully dressed in the shadow of an orchestra that is very similar to Leopard. So the music we're seeing is typical of the American form of the waltz, primitive form that arrives in Canada from France and then merge into Louisiana in the United States made with simple tools they could use in the swamps, a popular version of the track as there was in Casper that there and all the details, clothes and details are based on 20,000 photographs. We were interested therefore to see the transmission of such as European Americans in the music and as a reaction and about the way in which it was accepted. We must remember that anyone who tried to tell the story of the United States was sentenced to from Birth of a Nation by David Wark Griffith, the inventor of cinema which has been condemned by the media first and then if the Congress had spoken to destroy all traces of this work and then there was Orson Welles who decided to make a film about a newspaper magnate and Citizen Kane as he could not esssere condananto was condemned by the States by the press and a few years after arriving Cimino trying to tell the story of the west and as it was already been sviluttato the world of communication through each half the sentence, sentencing on anyone I try to tell the truth about this country.
regard to Leopard I want to tell a story. Once eroa breakfast in Los Angeles as a monthly habit at an Italian restaurant in a gorgeous day and I see two old people who eat in silence. My agent tells me "'ve never met Burt Lancaster? . " why not? . " is sitting there at that table . An old dark and unrecognizable as the old Ben Benjamin, his agent, the senior officer who was Ronald Reagan. Then I was introduced to Lancasater as a young director, he said, "like young " raising his hand trembling and I said "I must say " I told him that he was one of my films I most loved of all time, his performance in The Leopard is incredible and he "thanks young." And I " but how did you make a Sicilian aristocrat so well? "and he was transformed, became like a twenty year old, the brightened eyes, a smile, a transformation never seen it, looked like the Resurrection of Lazarus and I told him I had spent a year in Sicily and had seen at first hand the 'aristocracy Sicilian and seeing every gesture type when it comes steward on the tray with the letter arrives from Palermo to the blue ribbon and the manner in which he takes the letter and the handling is so perfect. I asked him "how did you interpret so well " and he said "I do not know" and said, "but you asked Luchino " and he " yes, of course, I asked him every day . " and what did he say?" And he replied "nothing ! . " and what have you done? . " I imitated Luchino! "
you think it is better to study cinema before doing so?
I've never done film school, I studied architecture, I'd be curious to know what they teach in film schools. However, if you really want to go somewhere you go to school for actors because it's cheap and evening classes during the day so you can find a real job and meanwhile you know a lot of people.
by Gianluigi Perrone
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