Timur Bekmambetov
Timur Bekmambetov
Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetovis a Kazakh director, producer and screenwriter who has worked on films, music videos and commercials. He is best known for the film Night Watchand its sequel Day Watch, and the American films Wantedand Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter...
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth25 June 1961
everybody fight good line
Good fighters, they are so professional and quick, you can't see what's happening. It's very important: the fight is like a dialogue. Everybody has a line and an answer.
movies produced
It's a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.
exactly
If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.
depressing imagine impossible itself russian somewhere strange
'Night Watch' itself is a very Russian movie. It's impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. It's a Russian reflection of American film culture.
great grounded technique
I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make everything - to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.
means seen
If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'
development world language
The film language is still in development and the traditional dialogue is the biggest problem because nobody knows how to interpret it in 3D world.
race people understanding
Vampire have their own understanding what freedom is because they just live much longer and they feel they are a superior race and they have their own understanding and their understanding represents the understanding of some people, that - who has the power of course has to rule the world.
powerful smart our-world
We are smart and powerful enough to change our world as we need.
reality play tools
You can play with the reality and the 3D is a tool to play with it.
real fighting boys
From the beginning [of the film The Darkest Hour], [aliens] it's a metaphor for the foreigners and from the beginning of the movie, American boys feel themselves like aliens here or they feel like Russians are aliens. There's misunderstanding or miscommunication. Then when the real aliens appear, together they have to fight to survive.
character creative actors
The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.
cities people important
Moscow has an energy. Which is important. The city and the people all have an energy. It's quite different from what everybody knows in Los Angeles, but it has an energy. People have an energy.
character eye interesting
Russian directors, we are shooting the same streets. The same things. Tom Jacobson has a fresh eye and found very interesting and very cool locations and angles and characters.