In the show there are many comic scenes, people often laugh. How do you balance the comic elements of the gloomy atmosphere that you breathe?
I think the writer should have a greater ability to bring out the different materials is common to the public. What is suitable for them and often I feel happy because what I want is what I feel and think will work for everyone. But I often say "it's nice but does not work for me." I do not think the show has an educational purpose, I do not feel like a god. There are two specific actions: adventures based so that make me go back to the character and moments in the show where the storytelling is like Spielberg or Lucas at a time when Iindiana Jones and the Temple of Doom when it is between enemies who come from all parts of the music stops him and says "shit!" and the audience laughs, and you say "ok it was not so ridiculous," because it was a moment of relaxation. I need a moment before Kate enters the trap door she tells John, "do you think is a good idea?" and he says "nonon think so." There is so much tension to be disposed of by the public and the show tries to be un'orchesta where we need to play an instrument at a time. Sometimes it's the battery, the other the violin. Each week we dial storytelling just like that Michael Giacchino composed the score for Lost. Lost in the music is very cinematic. He is a genius and it's just I would be the idea of \u200b\u200bthings that are going to happen, telling you how to feel epic, happy, dramatic or put you on your toes. What we are talking about the program is not the faith or believe in miracles. You can get them laughing and it's ok. Writing is only one eighth of what it takes to advance through the show.
University What movie you saw what kind of material you are interested as a writer?
At New York University, where I went, it was very unpopular to be interested in mainstream cinema and this thing is happening again now, everyone hates the commercial cinema. I frequentto in 91-92-93 and it was very exciting to live in New York because the independent cinema in Europe with which you have lived all my life was coming to the States and at the same time when I saw art-house films of Fellini, Orson Welles and the first independent Americans like Martin Scorsese in that NYU had its first fans with Who's That Knocking at My Door, Alice Does not Live Here Anymore, Mean Streets and even Spike Lee had attended NYU. Do the Right Thing, Lola Darling these films were exciting and at the same time new movies coming out in '91 as Reservoir Dogs. I went to see the movie with all the classmates and I changed as storyteller, struck me a lot in the way Pulp Fiction Tarantino decided to tell the story. These are influenced by Japanese cinema that has taken on some degree of storytelling. The idea of \u200b\u200bLost on a timeline does not continue, when we show the first image of a man who opens the eye after the crash, it means that it is the middle point of the show. When everything is finished, when Lost will end now then you will understand that this was the central part. If you will start each episode goes back and forward at the same time and the show moves instead toward this point. So when everything will come back hopefully it will all make sense as it is Reservoir Dogs. Mr. Orange in flashback is not known who fired, no one knows why, do not know what is the relationship with the man driving the car.
Many fans blame us with the story "does not give me answers" and that is frustrating abbasatnza. It 's exciting for me because if I read a good book I always read the next chapter now and then when it had started to be very sad, I begin to say "oh no, is running out" so I can imagine what can be a bastard that says I have written your chapter, but I'll give it once a week and you have to wait and I can not say when it will end. It must be frustrating but this is television.
What is the TV show you the most hit so far?
Twin Peaks! (Secco! ed.) It 'a show I loved and still love it. The case of David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks has created this: the ABC said "we want to write a TV movie for us," and they wrote it and put us in a mystery "who killed Laura Palmer" and at the end of film solved the mystery, to kill Laura Palmer was the father and the ABC read it and said, "this is so good that we want to serialize it and change the purpose for which do not reveal, and we will do a television series." They said "how we do it?" and they told him that gave him more money and they could tell the story in six episodes instead of one. So the film came out and it was an incredible success and ABC said "okay, but not 6 episodes 18 episodes." And they said, "but we wanted to reveal who the murderess at the end of the sixth episode," and we do not know how to get to 18 episodes. It 's like if I wanted to draw a car, then I prepare, I make it beautiful with a nice design, I see how to make it powerful, all that and then bring it to the manufacturer brand, beautiful, shining it tells me "is beautiful! I can use it like a boat? we have to go in the water "(Ed laughs)" That's not what you asked me to do. " It 's like what happens to us that we draw on Lost TV series. It 's the same thing happened with X-files. People say "it can not be more than X-files". They continued for nine seasons. Chris Carter wanted to finish it after 4 seasons, a movie and finish it all unravel all the mysteries. Who produced the show said "no you can leave the show .. but we continue because this is business!" We are in the United States in the executive's successful TV show and what is accepted by the same fails to produce what has happened. So we must be business people and artists at the same time because we do not worship programs of the mainstream but, oh the secret ... and it stays in this room ... is that we are making a cult series (ride ndr) ... so, we must somehow get by.
When did you start how many Lost seasons have planned?
So, the show was originally "designed" to last 4 years. The older version of the show was designed to last between 80 and 90 episodes. The original plan was 88 episodes in that number because it contains the story that we want to tell. So it was designed to last in this way but I do not think the program will end this way. The most likely way to end the show at the end of four years is to let the events are open to a new program. Can acclimate to a new island with new people. I do not think I would have nothing to do with that show (laughs Ed.)
Woody Allen said "the word show business is half and half executive's show. Otherwise it would showshow businnes or executive's. What is your relationship with the executive's show?
We will be happy as long as there is permission to do the show show. The executive's will come when we reach the end of the story we want to tell but we are giving artistic freedom to do what we do. There have been discussions on that we wanted to make creative choices. The most famous is that Jack wanted to do die at the end of the first episode, killed by the monster. That guy hanging from a tree had to be Jack, this is the role for which we have chosen Matthew Fox. We said 'no, it's a bad idea. All women will love the doctor. E' beautiful is good, is good, we can not pass it through the monster, "and JJ said," No, it's my Psycho (laughs ed) he dies and will be shocking! The people will be shocked! ", and" will remain so shocked and then turn off the television "(laughs ed) then we have not found a compromise and we followed their advice, we said," you know what is the point at which people become attached to the story you tell and you know what? They were right. did not have to kill Jack. If we had survived and had killed Jack maybe people would leave the show and we would not have reached now.
JJ Abrams says that when heads will not allow the production to make voice the choices you make ...
On television, I do not know you, the spot must be a tot in the same year, each time the screen goes black. It 's a tough job to make sure that what happens immediately before and immediately competitive. We in the States we call earthquakes. We are we to make six to one at the end of each episode teaser, soon after the start of the program and a big one at the end of the episode, so people want to wait a week to return to view the program. Sometimes it ends without a cliffanger why people need a break. "If you do not come with the good one is not even with that ugly, do not you come to know." The story must be surprising and a great twist but we to have a beginning and an end very dramatic. The end of this episode (2x01 ed) is the moment when we discover what she wanted to be Jack, who had a wedding dance, the woman has had a bad accident and it is impossible to heal he promises to do so, you repented of the promise, he meets a man and the man says "do not listen dartene misconduct is more than you can do," Jack believes him and somehow the woman is doing well. This is the story of the episode, the story continues on the island and never ending but at the end of this episode, the same man she met in the hatch is there now, we do not know why, we do not know how they can be met again and this is the episode is the story we have said, the chapter continues. To have this great impact you have to know everything that came before and all you'll know what will happen next season.
There are some rumors about your future ...
The story and characters in time become mythological is a word we often say in Lost. Mythology. I walked to Rome, it's my first time I come here, and I've never seen a city so full of history and mythology. Yesterday my wife and I we were to see the Vatican museums and statues of mythological gods and you see the same deity in Kirk or Spock or Locke, the very idea of \u200b\u200bthe same story that survives over time. If you think Star Trek TV show was a big failure at the time lasted for 3 years and then deleted and fought to stay there and then in time it became a phenomenon. Twin peaks were only 18 episodes but they seem a lot more because the culture has created around is great. What has made the legendary Star Trek? What's in that story? There is adventure and inspiration, the belief in ourselves that there's more out there. I think that man should seek to relate to God, these people are doing something about this, if you climb a ship and go find where we came from, what it means, what is the meaning of life this will be exciting for you in addition to the inspiration the show becomes much more riguardaqnte other cose.Quello that there was at that time, the Cold War with Russia, there was a black woman in enterprise an Asian a Vulcan a Russian so all these people together was an idealization of Gene Roddenberry's future who had a new age inspiration. Yes there is something that we are working beyond the one mentioned by the show, is a very interesting thing for me and JJ. In addition to commitments with Alias \u200b\u200bfor which he wrote a lot of episodes and Mission Inmpossible, there is a project where I am probably the manufacturer. We have many exciting ideas about going back to what may be the original show, use the characters Kirk and originali.Su Spok.Vedere chapters of their life just like We flashback on Lost. How they met Kirk and Spock, what were their plans, where they come from, what they want. Observe the characters and tell the story again because the people who saw the story again and again could be affected.
Lost in a plane is falling, you have been affected by the events of September 11th?
All the writers of the show, the actors of the show, the directors of the show are influenced by what happens in the world. We in America since September 11 and we are necessarily influenced by what happens in Iraq now. Whatever you think, Americans are very sorry to be so involved so in this matter. When we started writing the pilot was already talking about invading Iraq. We said it would be interesting to have a character on the show iraqueno at that time, we were told that as Americans will be in and out six months, one year maximum, then we continued with the idea and is still on the island and Sayid 3 years dopo.Chissà how much we will gather together in ten years and say the show was strong, this is what happened then, this is what happened before the U.S. invaded Iraq and are still there. The idea of \u200b\u200bthe show begins with a plane crash came two years before September 11. JJ and I have long discussed the fact that an accident is very different from a terrorist attack, this is something we all fear when we fly and the program and the show is about fear, everyone is afraid of something but in Lost in this moment they're all afraid the same thing, they realized that Someone took him to strangers and put in a scenario as if they were one, this is the gist of the show. We write dialogue for a group of people who live together, is an idea of \u200b\u200bcommunity. The show now speaks of hope because no person has happened s. Jack thinks he's a bad doctor because he is honest, he says "there is no hope to be honest and retire." When people are desperate search for hope, even if there is no hope . Jack learns the lesson that if you hope maybe something will happen, then back on the island, talk to the group, is frightened because the Others are coming but says he'll be fine, we know that we do not really believe but we also know that something has changed in him. The idea is that the show is not about a plane crash but to survive a plane crash and this is especially true because many people in America needs hope. The life of every day is relamente depressing and hard to find hope for how things go. After September 11, want to find hope.
Lost has become a hit series with millions of fans who make outlandish assumptions. Do you ever never read things that make you laugh, or you surprised that you've never thought of that?
There are people who read metaphors in the show. Let me give an example. There's this character called Desmond. We named David Hume, as the philosopher but not reveal his name because he is a secret. And 'later in the series. When it aired, someone said that indicates why it is called Desmond Demon in French, the otherworld so I think that this man is traveling parallel to reality and I said "interesting! Perhaps so!" because they think that the name we give it an easter egg that we put all around the show. If people look for them sometimes secrets is where you did not because it's so hidden and who can say that a secret was not made by someone else other than me and maybe I say that is not on the show. The perhaps that combine to show you something ... you know, you see 100,000 people at the window they see the Virgin Mary and you say "is a natural event or a miracle, who knows" but the 100,000 it does not matter, it can be a reflection of light that look in a specific way that morning. Logically imagine the Virgin Mary to an image is known throughout the world and so it's a coincidence but I believe I can not believe it and decide that it is a miracle and for those people is a miracle.
What happen when you will not have the copyright of Lost, what you wrote you do not belong anymore. The people will make the meetings as they do for the Rocky Horror Picture Show in your opinion?
Again, the show that I write is different from the show you see. Perhaps the show you see is better because it is your point of view. Whichever way you interpret it is not my interpretation from the perspective of the writer. Very often in film school was someone famous and some students went to the meetings and asked questions like, "You mean ... it was your intention in saying this," they said "No" and it's very frustrating, so she does not get more reliable things. Because sometimes it is better not to know why you say that you have followed this evil that influence. It 'a lot more fun knowing that you're right.
What qualities deemed essential for a writer?
I think the real being. Very often, I really became redundant as a writer and sometimes I realize that this is not the thing that one would say really. For example, Hurley and Sarah say "Jack because you go down those stairs, why do you do?" and in the first draft said "I do not know why, maybe I do it because I'm afraid, maybe because I want to prove to my father and he was wrong about me, maybe I do because I want to do an exercise, but more I do it because they are all intense and lu watch it saying "eeeehhhh said it was intense." I think this is not the spirit of Lost, people do not like it here because addoso speak with the program you can easily relate . Very often people say "how come he never says what happened in the past?". I have a past, you have a past and we have been friends a long time and at any moment you tell me "My sister died when I was 11 and I can say" do not really know much about you as chr came out now? ". This idea of \u200b\u200bhonesty, people who can help but give great soliloquies. In the States we say not do better. Sometimes I write a long monologue to tell Locke and Terry O'Quinn is me and said, "but I'm really pray the entire book?" and I say "yes, you!" (ride ndr) coughs he turns and says "come on Jack this is much better than anything else." In practice, does his own thing. I am a writer in the process. Only the beginning of a process. Then move on to the director, cinematographer, actors and editors then something comes out. Of what I understand is what is possible.
Someone has refused the work you've written? If someone says it sucks you do?
throw it away. I put away a lot of sceneggature terrible, some of which I made read to my friends. Sometimes someone comes and says "read my script, it's awful" because they are ashamed and do not want to sound arrogant but I am really scared and say "if you think it is terrible and I should say that then?" or someone is "oh I think maybe it goes better and they put their passion into it. I would not say never to anything non-fans but sometimes we must let go, move on and come back in future but the reality is that history that you want to tell when you tell it perhaps needs a better writer. I thought what a terrible writer. When I began writing film scripts I've written 11 screenplays that nobody has ever read but writing is improved I realized my faults and I took more confindenza and what I think is right to make decisions, know what your vision and write it. Listen to what people say, but not too much.
Before you talk about stealing from the authors. Who has stolen you or better, according to who you should watch this to become a writer?
I do not think there is an answer to this question. One of those studies that meet in person. There is no way to become successful writers in Hollywood. There are good writers who have been successful and good writers who have not done much. If you have a Hollywood writing and give millions of dollars you ask "why is siccesso this? what made it good? "I made courses for young filmmakers on how to write a screenplay mainstram but so far I've read the book with the conversations between Hitchcock and Truffaud that have been a great inspiration for me on how to make films and write screenplays. And 'one of my favorite books because it shows respect between the two directors who made films with very different but the same approach. So one can cite many influences but is personal. If you do not like mainstream films do not try to mainstream film if you can not even read books about it but you will not do something that people like.
What are the rules for writing "Lost" and how long before the write?
The main rule is to write the character in character, each week a person has experience in the story we're telling, everything is related to someone and the show is so big that it takes a very large pool of characters. One week we talk about Charlie and Charlie is addicted to heroin and explained how he took Charlie by the dependence on 'heroin. It 's very simple. Initially we had more time but by the third series we have entered the bulk of the show and at the end of the second series we had 6 weeks. To write an episode we get 3 days in general. We start Monday and end Wednesday. We go really fast. We have to do 24 episodes in 10 months.
had problems with Sergio Leone Once Upon a Time in America because of too many flashbacks that told the American public did not appreciate. Now you have brought into the flashback that American TV is one thing the whole movie ...
The flashbacks were a reaction to want to quit the island. We realized that people would be tired to see more of the island, beach, jungle and that environment there. The people at the time of Once Upon a Time in America was not prepared, we had to show what happened before the crash and then we had this idea but it was a risk, but this idea was widely supported by the network, for simplicity because we we are in jungle and it is difficult to produce more and maybe we see more scenes where Jack and Hurley running with a torch in the dark and generally occur in scenes where you see two policemen, one is behind a desk to study the case and the other in the street to chase the criminals and then we prprio a practical reason to put the flashbacks and this is something that we absolutely wanted to do. Often the fan in the States ask us if we will not have flashbacks, and the answer is no because it is now part of the show. However compared to the first hour the audience is more sophisticated.
What are the differences between the first and subsequent series?
The first series of the second and very different but very similar. the first was much like being in a new situation and obviously it evolves in the second, new characters are introduced and will be more concerns regarding the exploration and go deep in the island. The characters already know each other well, so it is like another chapter. It 's always a part of Lost, but in a different way as has happened to Star Wars. The Empire Strikes Back is very different from Star Wars because it's dark as a movie, has a different structure and this has inspired us.
convolto How did you get in Star Trek?
got involved. Me and JJ and we are planning we want to make sure it's great. For now we only had one conversation so I can not tell you when you will make.
In which country are more surprised to be successful?
do not know exactly how it went in all countries of the world but also in the United States the success fills us with pride because we are a cult show and there's so much attention around that is painful and you have to take into account the public. It 'exciting to know that in West Africa or Australia is very good, because there are different cultures in the world and is translated very well everywhere, is one of the most successful programs in America but it is not shot in America, Jack and Kate is no.Charlie Americans but other characters are British, Sayid and Jin Sun dallea Iraq and Korea, and when we have the flashback in korea you see the subtitles when they speak to each other but we do not because others around here do not have subtitles. The thing to make the international cast was an attraction of the show, instead of making a full cast of Los Angeles (we have realized that Damon hates CSI ed.)
You said that initially the leader of the Losties was Kate. When you have changed the character of the show have changed something?
Two weeks before shooting was Stao change the end of the first episode. Jack died in the way Charlie is found and Kate, who finds it becomes the leader of the Losties. Inizialementenon was fuggittiva, was separated from her husband. we had taken Matthew Fox before deciding this. Perhaps the difference is that there would be a female leader and not a leading man. jj had made the series Alias \u200b\u200bin which the protagonist was a woman and then was in his way of thinking but when we decided to live and we told Jack Matthew Fox have also decided that we would become more interesting the character of Kate If Jack was the leader she could be a darker character.
The series has to do with the faith that has seen many people Catholics?
I am an atheist and my father is Lutheran, but when my mother died I needed a spiritual sense and made me feel guilty for the first time I said "god help me because I can not think there is nothing after" ... then I met my wife and she is Catholic. We had many discussions ideological curious, my mother was Jewish, Lutheran and my father sent me to church on Sundays for the records but I found no connection. I made my inner journey into the past and I have come to some conclusions but I like parts of Catholicism, the worship of the faith to believe in something without needing proof.
The show has a strong sense of religion, many people think they are in a sort of purgatory and are giusdizio guilty and have to atone for the island.
What do you suggest for those who want to do the writer?
Write a lot, exercised, shut in and write, try not to write about obvious things with people and ask their opinions especially people with whom you disagree is not with people you do not argue. Employed mainly if you agree to argue you should not try to write a challenge because you need to train and one of the best ways to train and find people with opinions different from yours, and respect that point of view.
The best conversations I have with people who like the show n try to understand why he does not like what I would not change for them but I never interested to know why he does not like. Often an artist is difficult to accept criticism.
I wanted to know what relationship did the book The Third Policeman, which appears in an episode of the series. Someone said that the key to Lost. It 's true?
still a lot of people have not seen the series or read the book but there are several keys to the show in addition to the books that show Watership Down, The Third Policeman, The Arrivals.Sono literary quotations that we put on the show but the finale of The Third Policeman is the idea that the protagonist is dead and other things that have happened many times in the history of storytelling, this does not affect the public if all of our characters are dead. This is more than what happens in practice the idea that we talked about before. Not to be metaphysical but what is death? This idea that falls on the plane and they are on an island and Jack met Kate and she would tell him it is a criminal. It would not matter if most are dead. This is a new beginning for us. In many ways we have made it clear to the public that it is true what happens. They will not return to their lives because otherwise the show is over and it would be interesting, indeed the title of the show is Lost. The question that Charlie is the end of the pilot of the show is "where we are" not where we geograficamenre but where we are, where we are in life, what I do, what should I do now, and I would not be fair to say that the audience are all dead it does not matter then returned to bomb I have read many books on Lost, is a major Lord of the Flies, but there are none that could be the key to the show.
There are many outside in the first series, will it or not?
The second set of 30% is in the hatch and turn in the series will introduce a new set.
So we want every series seems to us sound different as new characters new situations new mysteries. We make a series of continuous change. Now we are here and tomorrow who knows where we're telling a story and we have these conditions. If you see CSI is good or bad is always the same. As we get tired of doing the same things will get tired pbblico to see more people around the fire and we want to change and explore the reality.
Before you wondered if something had inspired and Lost in the comic book series House of M Marvel Spiderman looks like Jack and Jack's personality. Did you know?
Yes I know. The writer of the series J. Michael Straczynski told me by email that he was taking something from Lost and I am honored by fans of the comic as they are.
continue the Lost Experience?
This is a business idea very similar to when Orson Welles did believe that aliens were attacking, we were sites of companies that were on the show and many people believe it. But we have to manager the brand lost a lot of attention and are born with so many things made by fans who do not understand what is and what we did to them. It 's funny because it becomes part of your show even if it is confusing for the public who wants to know what is official and what not, but I like this thing that the show is something that goes beyond what is on TV.
How knew you lost, what was ready at the time of the pilot?
The show is now like a child who learns things. If you want to play the piano teacher of the SunOne piamo if want to learn Italian or English to teach those languages \u200b\u200bbut do not know how the child learns.
know our destination. You realize that we have to go from Rome to Florence, I have a map but I do not know which way to take it if it rains, if the first step from Venice. The destination is the same but the show must be organic, we take many detours and this is frustrating for the audience as the fact that the first set ended with the hatch blew up and we looked into them but we could not say that c 'because he was a man in the second set was about the man and what he was doing there. However, we know that you know everything on the island and the people over there. Something will happen. Maybe this is like saying "I want my son to go to Harvard and become a lawyer but can not be sure, we must be organic and do our best to tell the story we're telling.
When did you start writing you had a mentor and would like to be someone's mentor?
I've had many. For my first teacher who taught me to write well. A mentor was JJ Abrams at the beginning of the show that taught me the rules, a Another was Tim Kring with whom I worked for 3 years and I learned a lot from him. Now he has called me and is doing a show about people who have strange abilities, and now he asked me "hey, can I have your brain for a hand on the show? "When you're a writer, your mentor can be younger or older than you maybe in 10 years I will work guardanod the people who come to have much to learn from the next generation would be an honor
be a mentor for a writer younger or older than me and I have no idea what to say but I could relate my knowledge with many writers. They would learn more from my mistakes than by mei successes.
At what point are the shooting and writing the third series?
will not say anything! (laughs ed.).
There are two types of people who read mystery books. Those starting from the beginning to read and others who want to get
No way is right or wrong. For the people that I never tell if it is right or wrong what I said about Lost. For no reason in the world will never tell what will happen or will reveal the secrets of Lost. Series 3 will be very different from 2, there will be new characters and discover shocking things on the island (I could say the same thing for the series 2 then nothing) to 4 weeks we are working on the conceptual stage of the 3 series, and episode 5 that happens, this episode 13 and so on.
The characters are all out of the ordinary ...
The idea is that all are extraordinary.
A character is Hurley because he never speaks of himself, ashamed, or perhaps Jack is the doctor, they all want to be a hero but he does not and why for reasons we know then maybe we will find that they are extraordinary for others is motiviHurley was the sympathetic character in the first episodes and then we scoeperto who won the lottery.
had to make complex characters because the show is about redemption.
What do you think of the gifts of the spectator contribution to the program, like the fan fiction?
For a writer who writes a program that someone says "I'm inspired from this show, I want to write about this character is a dream. The show belongs to the public must be free to do what you want and I read them often because I find them interesting and entertaining as a story of Sawyer and Jack are in love with 'each other
So the idea of \u200b\u200bfans who write stories about the world of Lost is great and I encourage you.
by Gianluigi Perrone
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