Lars Trier
Lars Trier
Lars von Trier is a Danish film director and screenwriter, best known for his films Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves, Melancholia and Europa. He is considered one of the great film auteurs and widely regarded as one of the most accomplished living directors in world cinema. In a prolific and controversial career spanning almost four decades, his work became distinct for its genre and technical innovation, the intensely confrontational - sometimes "humorous" - examination of existential, social and...
breaking rendered waves
If Breaking the Waves had been rendered with a conventional technique, I don't think you could have tolerated the story.
added dialogue enjoy leads time
I enjoy dialogue that leads to something more comical, and at the same time I like the added poignancy, too.
task
I give myself a task. This time, the task was to do a musical.
bit music recorded scenes talk
I also have scenes with music in them, and we have recorded the music on location-a bit like the first talk movies.
religious t
I also wanted t do a film with a religious motif, a film about miracles. At the same time, I wanted to do a completely naturalistic film.
colors dance dancing fond glamorous levels necessary people turn understanding
We had to turn up the colors in the dance sequences to make people feel that there were different levels of the film. I was not so fond of that, because it made the dancing more glamorous in a superficial way than what I really wanted, but it was necessary for the understanding of the two levels.
becomes character easily far good material pass pathetic situation visible
Visible good easily becomes trite; visually there is very little material left-you know, you make a sunbeam pass over a character or a situation and it becomes far too pathetic and banal.
prefer work
I prefer to work with unassailable ideas. And I wanted to do a film about goodness.
experience intense shooting six ways weeks
In many ways the six weeks of shooting was the most intense film experience I've ever had.
certain create engaged extreme furnish people questions spiritual understanding ways
In many ways I also have an understanding for-or rather, that people are engaged by spiritual questions and that they are so in an extreme manner. It is just that, if you want to create a melodrama, you have to furnish it with certain obstacles.
fight rewarding
I had to fight so much for the film. It was not very pleasant, but it's rewarding in another way. But it has not been pleasant.
cinema constantly enjoyment examine films history lightness possessed refer seek tried
If you examine the history of the cinema the way I'm constantly doing, I've tried to seek some of the lightness and enjoyment possessed by the films I refer to.
attach camera discuss limit means mount shoulder small using various ways
If you are using a 35 mm camera, it typically means shoulder mounted-and we actually constructed a shoulder mount for the small video-cameras. So you can discuss where the limit is with all the various ways you can attach a camera to a cameraman.
ages almost changing close enthusiasm final happened lose moving returned scenes spent version
If you go on correcting a script, you may lose your enthusiasm. It almost happened in this process, too, when we spent ages changing scenes and moving back and forth; but in the end we returned to the original, and the final version of the film is very close to the script.