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Jun 3, 2023 22:51:37 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Jun 3, 2023 22:51:37 GMT
I found a new Wes Anderson interview from Cannes in which he mentions Henry Sugar and Dahl, He is talking about the narrative inside the narrative tool that he used in The Great Budapest Hotel (he said then that he based it on Henry Sugar short story, actually) and says he used it in Asteroid City (it’s actually about New York actors doing a play about people in the titled Asteroid City so the main story is actually “fiction” within the fiction of the film) and will do it again in his Roald Dahl film. He says that it’s a way of showing that the narrating characters aren’t 100% trustworthy because it’s all about a personal experience. The main bit of info here is that he says he already finished the film. That he is about to begin another one. And here he is asked about the censored Dahl books controversy. He obviously is against any edit. www.elmundo.es/papel/cultura/2023/05/23/646cf3f821efa0ae6d8b45f1.html
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Jun 7, 2023 1:08:04 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Jun 7, 2023 1:08:04 GMT
I do know why they don’t post the whole interview! Also the idiots forgot to mention that BC is in the film… playing the title character!
Anyway, the quote by Robert Yeoman, the cinematographer,
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 8, 2023 1:22:49 GMT
I just saw a Film Twitter idiot making fun of Anderson because he is adapting, according to them, the story Dahl did to show critics that he could also write “saccharine” stories while saying it’s a darker and more twisted story compared to his other work. I was really tempted to ask them if they have actually read the book because I kinda remember the quote about it being a reaction to his critics, although I don’t think the word “saccharine” was ever mentioned, and my guess is that this person is just misrepresenting a phrase they read somewhere and, obviously, without reading the actual story! It was about the “happy ending” and a character redeeming himself. That normally doesn’t happen in Dahl stories: good people are good and bad people are irredeemable. Henry is a nasty character at the beginning and treated as such. If I remember well, the author calls him ugly, lazy, useless, etc. He reads about another nasty character in a book who takes advantage of a superpower he acquires but who ends really bad because as he is warned that power can’t be used for selfish purposes. Henry acquires the same superpower to do illegal stuff and we, as readers, are expecting an equally tragic ending. There is a wonderfully sequence in which he seems to be condemned to see the cause of his own imminent death through his body (Anderson already recreated that scene in Island of Dogs) but against our expectations and the typical Dahl villain, he survives at least enough to redeem himself and do good deeds.
Apart of that, yes, it’s mostly a classical Dahl story. Now is it darker and more twisted than his other stories? Maybe not but the book as a whole was indeed considered aimed for not so young readers (even Henry is about adult characters, no kids). The shocker was, in particular, a story called The Swan which, we already know, it’s included in the film. And yes, it’s considered one of the most twisted Dahl stories. It’s not pornographic as his actually adult stuff but it contains horrible animal cruelty (something that “meek” Anderson actually loves to put in his films almost as much as nude ladies! 😉) and awful bullying. The other story mentioned by Rupert Friend, The Ratcatcher (I haven’t read that) is also considered one of his darkest.
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 8, 2023 1:44:09 GMT
I was still hoping for a trailer of this during that Netflix event next week (it would also be perfect for Anderson because his new film would be already showing at theatres) but I just remembered that we didn’t get a TPOTD trailer until after the Venice Film Festival announcement. I mean if it will go to the Biennale and hopefully it goes, we probably will have to wait at least another month for a trailer! 😫
I hope it also goes to the NYFF! I loved the events there for TPOTD and also hopefully BC could go to promote it. If everything goes as planned, he probably would be shooting A Complete Unknown in the city at the time of the festival.
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Jun 10, 2023 23:52:52 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Jun 10, 2023 23:52:52 GMT
Or this journalist is very confused or we all were extremely wrong since the beginning, www.thetimes.co.uk/article/wes-anderson-please-do-not-send-me-memes-of-people-doing-me-rzcxbdx0tIt probably is the writer, journalists are extremely bad doing researching nowadays! (After all why BC excitingly talked about his costume and why prosthetic people are listed on IMDb if this is an animated movie!) But that open the question about which is really Anderson’s “next live-action movie!
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Jun 11, 2023 16:33:11 GMT
Post by sgev1977 on Jun 11, 2023 16:33:11 GMT
From the new Les Cahiers du Cinema issue,
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 11, 2023 16:47:52 GMT
I was searching for this so I could showing off that I was right but it’s actually on another thread! Lol
Ralph Fiennes is indeed playing Roald Dahl! That’s why he is the in all the stories! (I still not sure about The Mildenhall Treasure being the fourth story but that’s a true story in which, apart of writing it, Dahl was personally involved). In Henry Sugar, we have an author who is listening about Henry Sugar’s life in voice of his closest friends.
Apart of that, Anderson considers there a isn’t too much connection between the fourth stories contrary to The French Dispatch. Then he kinda presumed his narrative in the movie is unique and it doesn’t exist in any other film yet! Very humble of him! 😉
Also he says that his next film is starred by Benicio Del Toro so maybe Michael Cera is in it but the main character should be Del Toro. That’s the film/script he says he wanted to be very dark but ended being funny.
That’s what I understood with my rudimentary French!
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Jun 15, 2023 14:19:13 GMT
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Jun 15, 2023 14:33:09 GMT
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Jun 15, 2023 16:11:57 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 15, 2023 16:11:57 GMT
It's fascinating the lack of comprehension of Film Twitter! They seem to believe the whole four Dahl stories adaptations are just 37 or 38 minutes! Or am I wrong? It's clear to me that it's only 'Henry Sugar" which is 37/38 minutes with the other three being shorter.
I guess we have to wait how it's released by Amazon but until recently, they were claiming they all would form one film.
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