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Oct 3, 2021 9:47:16 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Oct 3, 2021 9:47:16 GMT
Also, Jane Campion seemed horrified by that interpretation.
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Oct 3, 2021 9:47:58 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Oct 3, 2021 9:47:58 GMT
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Oct 3, 2021 9:58:00 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Oct 3, 2021 9:58:00 GMT
The OP is a DGA member (and producer of major indie films) so I’m wondering if there was also a DGA screening.
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Oct 3, 2021 10:14:03 GMT
Post by MagdaFR on Oct 3, 2021 10:14:03 GMT
Also, Jane Campion seemed horrified by that interpretation. Which?
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Oct 3, 2021 10:28:46 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Oct 3, 2021 10:28:46 GMT
A very few number of people also speculated that so I guess they achieved something in transmitted that idea, even without the consent of their director. But that’s awful, it totally erases Peter’s homosexuality and make him a Norman Bate kind of character. The conflict is more deep and internal and related to Savage himself fighting his own internal homophobia. Campion herself comments in the video about the author personal life and where he was at the moment he wrote that book and she even speculated that Phil will eventually become Peter’s Bronco Henry because “it’s easier to love a ghost” in repressed times. So yeah, dumb actors! 😉
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Oct 3, 2021 10:58:34 GMT
Post by MagdaFR on Oct 3, 2021 10:58:34 GMT
The backstory where they decided that Peter must have killed his father, rather than the suicide that was in the book. Campion looked very surprised when they revealed that in the discussion (video poster earlier in the thread). Oh! I haven't watched the video yet.
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Oct 3, 2021 11:01:53 GMT
Post by MagdaFR on Oct 3, 2021 11:01:53 GMT
A very few number of people also speculated that so I guess they achieved something in transmitted that idea, even without the consent of their director. But that’s awful, it totally erases Peter’s homosexuality and make him a Norman Bate kind of character. The conflict is more deep and internal and related to Savage himself fighting his own internal homophobia. Campion herself comments in the video about the author personal life and where he was at the moment he wrote that book and she even speculated that Phil will eventually become Peter’s Bronco Henry because “it’s easier to love a ghost” in repressed times. So yeah, dumb actors! 😉 Yes. I found it strange Jane wasn't aware of this and that she hadn't discussed this with them. I need to read the book. And watch the movie.
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 3, 2021 11:23:15 GMT
About the question about them reading the book or not. They both discretely claimed they did meanwhile BC was describing himself as the “annoying actor who carry the book on set” but my first reactions after they happily said that was that no, they didn’t read it! Or understood it or, worse, didn’t cared!
Campion isn’t a Tarantino kind of filmmaker. She doesn’t despise high culture nor literature. She made a bio about a poet and her parents were involved in theatre! She is a cultured woman! Even Tarantino adapted a book, Jackie Browne (by far his best film because it has something his original scripts s don’t have: depth and meaning). And Truffaut who wrote the (in)famous essay “A Certain Tendency…” against “literary” films was also an avid reader who did a lot of film adaptation and loved so much books that adapted a book about bad guys destroying them because they felt threatened by them, Fahrenheit 451. So yes, filmmakers respect books! Especially someone like Campion! She went to Montana to meet the author’s family. She mentioned the name of the real Phil, Ed Burke and asked about who they though it was the real Bronco Henry. She said Savage saw himself like Peter. She cares for the meaning in the book and in Savage’s life.
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Post by mllemass on Oct 3, 2021 11:32:48 GMT
We heard that JC had the actors spend time together bonding before shooting began, so that their closeness onscreen would be more believable. Benedict and Jesse spent time getting to know each other, so I guess Kirsten and Kodi did, too. It was during that bonding that they came up with their secret backstory. They were joking, I’m sure!
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Post by sgev1977 on Oct 3, 2021 11:34:06 GMT
A very few number of people also speculated that so I guess they achieved something in transmitted that idea, even without the consent of their director. But that’s awful, it totally erases Peter’s homosexuality and make him a Norman Bate kind of character. The conflict is more deep and internal and related to Savage himself fighting his own internal homophobia. Campion herself comments in the video about the author personal life and where he was at the moment he wrote that book and she even speculated that Phil will eventually become Peter’s Bronco Henry because “it’s easier to love a ghost” in repressed times. So yeah, dumb actors! 😉 Yes. I found it strange Jane wasn't aware of this and that she hadn't discussed this with them. I need to read the book. And watch the movie.
Apparently, it was “their secret” and about the interpretation out there, Campion had said she doesn’t read reviews because well, she has been awfully “attacked” by critics in the past! And even when some defended her, she said she can’t avoid to stay with the negative ones. About the video, it’s actually great and all of them are funny and in great form. It was just an insignificant detail in a wonderful Q&A. Campion mentioned again Parade’s End and didn’t remembered the name of the series but claimed BC’s recent series was also wonderful, surely Patrick Melrose.
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