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...
task
I give myself a task. This time, the task was to do a musical.
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I also have scenes with music in them, and we have recorded the music on location-a bit like the first talk movies.
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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.
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But if it means that people who used to be limited by a notion of how a proper film should be, if those people now feel that they can make film-then I find that has a certain quality to it.
prefer work
I prefer to work with unassailable ideas. And I wanted to do a film about goodness.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In the forest scene we had put a mike up a tree to capture the ambient sound... it is like reinventing movie-making, don't you see?
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In the earlier films, it was a conscious decision not to be too close to the actors.
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I'd toyed with a couple of ideas beforehand, but I hadn't written a single cue, and it was a wonderful feeling to just write away.
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If you tell a man what to do in real life, to which extent is it reality and to which extent are you in control?
print problems ready time
I'm much calmer. We had a lot of time problems going to Cannes. The print was ready one day before it was shown. Now I feel very good.