for the release of Captivity we met for you Roland Joffe, who had a glorious past and two Oscars for her by name the first two movies, Scream in Silence and Mission. To accompany the producer Mark Damon as well as several former glory spaghetti western. We feel that tell us about Captivity.
How did you make a thriller with shades so strong?
Roland Joffe - The human being is basically driven by fear and tried to explore the degree to which this happens. Although this thought may seem embarrassing, because humans tend to believe that most noble of all human activities are fundamentally driven by the fear of something. The idea of \u200b\u200bfeeling and explore it attracted me in this script, also seek to understand the life of a famous person at a given time, see what happens in this life and understand the dialectic of power, figure out who is actually the prisoner. If the real prisoner is someone who is obsessed with this celebrity or that celebrity is obsessed with his own fame, as it escapes the idea of \u200b\u200bbecoming an icon, what is an icon, you can avoid turning someone be transformed into an icon or an icon? So what I found nice, basic estrane in this film is that. Like the fact that the thriller genre films or at least are very interesting for the public just because they go to touch of the key elements within the human being.
What problem did the set and motivations that gave the actors?
RJ- One difficulty was that the film is good or bad in the same three or four small rooms, so the challenge was to make something interesting that takes place in a confined space and confined. Aas can change this space, as the same four walls may look completely different in different moments. As for the signs to the actors there has been a private alchemy, it is difficult to explain in words, it would be like trying to explain how you mix the colors in nature, and 'hard to give that indication I do feel is the actor, his esignenze needs. It forms a secret language between us.
I think it's important to set the scene in the right way because it is important that you immerse the actor, will integrate and bring out what he feels.
do not like to give big psychological explanations or notes, I prefer the actor when acting discover something of the history, scene of the character. So there I start to explain in detail what will happen if the scene is set well the actor will give her best.
What can you show or not show such a film like this?
RJ- In truth I do not think there's any scene filmable, Everything is filmable.
Perhaps it is understood by the public as it would macomunque am against any kind of censorship, whether it be internal or external. I think the film is an art form and as such should face the truth.
Among his last film and this is the past 7 years, has done a lot of television and the star is known for being the daughter of Jack Bauer in 24. How much does the possibility of making a film on television?
RJ- The reason I even stayed away from the cinema is that I have produced a show for MTV which has not yet been broadcast in Italy. There are 270 episodes for 4 years with a budget of $ 37 million, which took a lot of my time. It is something that repeated even though I enjoyed it very much and it was one thing that I learned a lot, but not the kind of work I want to do. As for the possibility through television advertising to attract public to cinema, not so much agree. Often people say that going to the cinema to see a movie because he works a particular actor or actress famous television that they saw on TV but it is not necessary because it is so
is something different. The magic of filmmaking is changing something that those who go to watch something on television does not mean that
see the same thing to the movies.
The film is a coproduction Russia United States, Russia is experiencing a great
period, especially in genre films. We think the success of the film
Bekmambetov. How did the collaboration in production?
Mark Damon - One Russian producer wanted to start a relationship between the West and Russia, to import certain products of American, British etc. to train a bit 'the Russians in the way we work, then I left in Russia during the Moscow trials, which are the oldest in Europe, and I wanted to make a challenge to combine our methods with the way they work and this challenge is even more important to me because I wanted to see if I could convince Roland Joffe and not only to shoot in Russia but also to make a thriller that he had never done. Then when I gave the script told me it could be interesting but is not sure of being able to do it, so we began the months of preparation during which he saw a number of thrillers, and after two months said he believed he was ready to make the movie and then we went to Russia and we believe that it was possible to achieve it. E 'was difficult because, even with the
interpreters, the manner in which the Russian crew worked was different from ours and then it took two weeks to understand but in the end went so well that he makes another film in Russia.
Then you found right?
RJ- actually work in Russia is like climbing a mountain, when you get on top of it seem like it was easy but the climb was a real nightmare. Because basically the reason is not due to lack of talent, indeed. The problem is that there are two systems that collide and coexist. On the one hand, Russia is a very interesting country that is undergoing a period of tremendous change, the problem is that people do not know where it is then there is the madness of the old guard, those who grew up with communism and only then are now displaced, there is the madness of those who had to make some of
changes they have experienced but do not really know where they are, then there are young people who have not lived what they lived through their parents and grandparents do not understand it then, so there are these three kinds of crazy things that you collide.
One of the things the film is striking that the jailers do everything for sex, but instead of raping the girl once they do, they are interested in another type of ownership. What do you think?
RJ-It 's a very intelligent question because it contains a bit' under one of the film. Surely here there is the aspect of sexuality and appearance of the control.
What counts for these two individuals, but for many others, is the act of submission. These are two intelligent people so for them the violence or rape are not so important, not just because there is a deeper flavor than in having something offered to take it. What we put in place is a very deep psychological manipulation and that is for them that matters most. Strangely, these people are in search of love, a love that his mother has denied and is a little 'what a child who is the spitting from the milk. It 's like saying, you give me everything but all I do not want, or, as these men have something that is denied is strong enough to kill to satisfy this desire. So from this point of view, it is extremely interesting. The type of submission and total effective real spoken of in the film is something impossible to get completely in love because it has a basic contradiction in the submission as if it acquired a freedom. There is freedom in submission, it is a strange thing but the human being is made of contradictions. Because when there is complete submission within this physical and psychological reality you get rid of their thoughts, their fears, their restrictions, their boundaries so you can enjoy this.
What movie has seen waiting to decide?
RJ- I've seen hundreds of movies, some even twice, what interested me was whether there was a particular film language and understand how you could construct a situation that would lead to a condition of the growing fear. One of those I saw was The Collector William Wyler which I addressed some arguments similar to those we have dealt with us. I looked carefully to try to understand what works and what does not work in relation to our film and found it very informative, I liked this film also because it also focuses on a single confined space such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre nostro.Poi which in itself already the subject of the circular saw is extremely efficient and brutal violence, it seems to me the symbol of modernity and modern society, is an object that has inherent in its control but in the wrong hands can cause the most horrible things and it is mesmerizing instructive. And I should add that this film was so impressed that we hired a cameraman of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Tell us on his new film?
RJ- We just finished filming in Russia. We do not know yet how it will come out. It 's the story of two girls, one American and one Russian who know each other online, share a strange dream and do not know who they are and then end up with trying to discover some things about Russia. It 's a movie that concerns the discovery of himself and Russia. It's called Finding tATu, is a good movie.
Kuthbert Elisha is best known for her role of 24, having made films in
whose acting is as important as the judge as an actress?
RJ- Elisha has a huge talent, has the ability to communicate with the public and this enables it to communicate the emotions but the world is changing at breakneck speed and that I had first hand experience with my own daughter who loves a star and then the day after you have forgotten, a typical effect of the Internet. The problem is that a candle can burn so bright in 5 days thanks to the internet at levels that others have used the Gion after 5 years but are not anymore. And here is the concept of possession. With the Internet, the public has the feeling of owning the star and he immediately tired, not interested anymore. A woman who wants to have a man stand it but not completely, a woman who wants to possess a man owns but not completely, while on the internet this is total and leads to the depletion of this desire. She has not done this problem by capturing the network and so can not turn off something like that.
I think the next famous star that will last over time will be created on the computer, do not exist in practice. will be beautiful but strange, and people will be willing to do anything for her but that will exist.
MD- There is one thing to say, because a woman becomes a star must have qualities. Should not constitute a threat to other women to be vulnerable and fragile as the Bullock, Julia Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, actresses with the ability to act in plays and Elisha has this capability. He's only 26 years but says this for 13 years and we often talked about her comic, she starred in The Girl Next Door and it was almost a prosit Yet the spectators loved it because he was vulnerable even though it was a
prostitute, I think that if in this new comedy that is playing well to be able to become a star.
What can you say about about the Singularity? It 's true that Storaro is the director of photography?
RJ-It 's a very interesting project, I do not know if it will be my next project but is something that I want to work very soon. But now it is too early to say whether it will be the cinematographer Storaro.
Finding tATu But the title has to do with the duo of singers lesbians?
RJ- Yes, it has to do with this group and this group is famous because he played on and lesbian issues are also part of the film in some way.
Jennifer's character is not exactly the most as a person who suffers the torture seems that test your morals, you had a second
catharsis?
RJ- What I think is that in life we \u200b\u200ball have moments of cathartic and we put to the test. There are some who say these tests, others do not respond. There are people live less likely to switch to other less. In my opinion this is the issue of self-discovery and that is what happens to the main character, discover his dark side and come to terms, to discover that this is the dark side within us all. So deal with it, and compare it to come to terms with it. All human beings are made from things in balance, structures, systems and this is the concept of fear that I was saying, which is the motivating factor for most of human reactions, basically she discovers his violence and in my opinion women may be capable of violence under certain circumstances, although the social systems and historical return man than the woman, the woman can and is entitled to be violent as a man does in some circumstances. So it may be shocking your character will be changed at the end of the movie, if you know the better but it will be changed.
This does not mean that all women are violent, but all could be violent which implies a certain respect for what women are.
Which religions and ancient philosophies have understood, like the Greeks.
advertising campaign in the United States has created controversy because of
posters on which the written staked Abduction, Confinement, Torture, Termination. How do you comment this?
RJ- The United States is a particular reality, tend to respond in a certain way to these words, they are taken. In reality what has been the response to the poster suggested that the film contains within itself violence against women and there was a gut reaction to this campaign, perhaps wrongly, in the sense that the film looks at violence, deals violence but does not contain as such. I find that the debate is important but in the States has led to ideological statements without reflection. Instead would be interesting to debate.
MD- In America the film has taken the name of torture porn, but there is nothing pornographic in this movie some associations in Los Angeles and New York put pressure on critics and to sull'mpaa complaint so that the film was banned. They did everything to get it off, then once a screening of the film we found that women liked it more than he liked men, and we have found through the surveys. Unfortunately, the campaign was wrong, we tried to change it but it was what happened. Instead, this film is about the power that can rely on and this woman finally manages to have authority over the perpetrators, and this element was not emphasized as it should. The film could have been more successful than it was. I think the film will succeed in Italy.
by Gianluigi Perrone
