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At the side of the freeway right
at the entry to the Paris airport...
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stands a maiestic tree that signals
my arrivals and departures.
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lt's a cedar from Lebanon that
must be at least 150 years-old.
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The last time l went by on my way
to the festival in Cannes...
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the tree had
a different message.
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lt reminded me that it had seen
the beginnings of photography...
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and the entire history of cinema.
which it might just as well survive.
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so l arrived in Cannes with a
question. that l asked my colleagues.
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How long is the reel?
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-10 minutes.
-fine.
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l've got this piece of paper
that Wim Wenders gave me.
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He's set up a camera
and a tape recorder...
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and left me here.
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But he hasn't set me properly...
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for me to see the tennis game.
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lt's a ball.
A ball who talks.
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l'll play the ball.
l'll play the fool.
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this is an enquiry about
the future of the cinema.
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the context:
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more and more movies
Iook like TV series...
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in terms of lighting.
framing. and editing.
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for large parts of the audience
all over the world...
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a television aesthetic has
replaced a cinematic aesthetic.
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Well...
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you have to know
who invented television...
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and what the context was.
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lts arrival coincided with
the talkies...
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at a time when governments were
half-consciously thinking of...
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harnessing the incredible power...
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that was released by the silent film...
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which. unlike painting.
achieved instant popularity.
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Popularity among the masses.
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Rembrandt's paintings...
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and Mozart's music were supported
by kings and princes.
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But it was a mass public that very
quickly came to support....
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the cinema.
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the silent movie was
something to behold.
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first you look. then you speak.
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the sound film might've been invented
right away. but that didn't happen.
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lnstead. it took thirty years.
the age of reason...
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Whoever has the power has right
on his side. as l said in a movie.
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first came the technical
birth of television.
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When the film people
weren't interested in it...
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it had to be rescued by the post
office. people in communications.
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so. today. television...
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is like a little post office.
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lt's nothing to be afraid of.
it's so small...
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and you have to be
very close to the picture...
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ln the cinema
on the other hand. the picture...
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is large and intimidating... and you
watch it from some distance.
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today. it seems people would rather
Iook at a small picture close up...
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than a large one from a distance.
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television emerged very quickly
because it was born in the USA.
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lt was born at the very same time
as the advertising that financed it.
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so it was the highly articulate
advertising world...
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saying things in a
single phrase or image...
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like Eisenstein
as good as Eisenstein...
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as good as Potemkin.
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so they made ads like Potemxin.
only Potemxin is 90 minutes long.
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An ad is less than a minute long.
because otherwise...
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you would have to tell
the truth about...
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the car. the tennis racket...
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lt is linked to the truth
and we admit the lack of it...
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and all the chattering
that goes with it.
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More and more movies
talk about other movies...
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rather than about a reality
outside the cinema.
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lt's true. It's difficult to shoot
outdoors. you have to take risks.
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lt seems that life can't provide
stories with no troubles.
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As soon as there is trouble
we say there is no story.
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We just want a story
we know already.
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We are reassured not because it's the
story of Alain Delon and his gun...
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or Charles Bronson
or something like that...
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but because we know the end...
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we are reassured about
our own story.
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l think a picture is like
an X-ray you take. sick or not.
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You get worried or reassured after
seeing a bit of your own story.
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And television is made
in the name of power...
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political and money power.
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they don't want a story.
there is no story in Dallas.
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sometimes that is
what l like about Dallas.
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''fewer and fewer movies are made''.
that's false. We're making more films.
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Americans are very good.
they make fewer movies.
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they found out that you need
to make fewer movies.
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Hollywood's dream is
to make one movie...
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but the television makes it and
to have it distributed everywhere.
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Movie and TV series
change titles...
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but they are still the same.
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text becomes more important
to characterize the story.
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so people can think
it's different.
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like kids...
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Why do people have kids?
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''there is a focus towards
big productions.''
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we do less but distribute
more widely.
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small movies tend to disappear.
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Cinema was born with small movies.
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small nations too. poor or rich.
will disappear.
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Everything small.
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''film on VHS are available
very quickly.''
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Yes...
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this new market is booming.
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People prefer to watch movies
at home on tape.
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lt's just a pretext.
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A porn movie at home on tape
is a pretext to invite a girl...
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and it's avoiding the minimal work...
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of talking to her about love.
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so l don't know...
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''ls cinema dying out as a language.
will it soon be a defunct art form?''
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lt really doesn't matter.
It's bound to happen some time.
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l shall die. but will my art die?
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l remember telling
Henri Langlois that...
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he should throw away
his collection of films...
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and go off somewhere.
otherwise he would die.
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so one should just go off somewhere.
It's much the better way.
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films are created when
there's no one looking.
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they are the invisible.
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What you can't see
is the Incredible...
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and it's the task of the cinema
to show you that.
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to show what you can't see.
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l'm sitting here
in front of the camera...
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but in reality. in my head.
l'm behind it.
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My world is the imaginary and...
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that's a journey between
forwards and backwards...
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between to and from.
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like Wim. l'm a great traveler.
see you later.
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Bye.
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''ls cinema a language about
to get lost. an art about to die?''
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Answer: yes. l think.
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lt's obvious that
it's on the way out.
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there's no reason
to suspect otherwise.
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the novel has been dead for
a long while. People know that.
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Poetry is exhausted
a hundred years ago.
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Plays hardly exist.
Once in a while.
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And every now and then.
there's a movie. But that's about all.
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the television is replacing it? Yes.
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l. myself...
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prefer watching most television
to most movies.
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l think the reason why movies
are dropping dead...
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is the same as with the novel.
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the novel had life in it when...
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it was based upon characters...
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when the novel was a vehicle
for an artist to create characters.
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there was a novel. people read it.
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When there was plays. like
Shakespeare. anybody. Shaw...
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there's only good plays. Molisre.
if they wrote good characters.
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the plots in their plays.
their philosophy...
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their meaning. their politics.
are all negligible.
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Most of them were ridiculous. stupid.
they go out of fashion.
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But good characters stay alive.
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the movies don't use
characters anymore.
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they use some horrible thing called
''directors and photography''.
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l prefer television because
television uses people.
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there're no directors on television.
It has much more life than movies.
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there're characters on television
on the talk-shows...
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there're characters on sitcom
situation comedies.
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there're characters on weekly series.
adventure series.
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the intrusion of director
does not exist in television.
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the material is second-rate...
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but the material of the movies
is second-rate.
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But people does exist on television.
It's better.
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And...
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maybe one day television will
die out too. but...
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l don't know.
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l. myself...
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think the movie critics. more than
anything. have destroyed films.
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ro ask a director like myself.
from the Philippines...
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what the future of the cinema is
l find...
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a very absurd question.
because...
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to ask what the future
of cinema is in Philippines...
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like asking what the
future of Philippines is.
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-Good bye.
-Bye.
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Nice to meet you.
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l don't...
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go to the movies very much anymore.
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l have a video recorder...
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and l record videos off the air.
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But l don't watch them while
they're being recorded.
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and l very rarely look at them
after l've recorded them.
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l have a library with
200 movies that l...
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l never see.
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l think that...
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it doesn't really matter much...
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wether movies look like TV
or TV looks like movies...
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or wether the language
in the cinema is changing.
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l don't that pictures are dying.
l think that...
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there are good times
and bad times for movies. And...
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l think that the last few years...
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have been a bad period.
l think that...
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haven't been a lot of movies
that l cared to see...
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and the ones that l have seen
l've been disappointed in. so...
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lf l go to see a movie that disturbs
me because it's not very good...
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that l'll look for an old movie
that l've seen before that l like.
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And l'll go to see it and l get some
kind of nourishment from it.
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''ls cinema dying out as a language.
will it soon be a defunct art form?''
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l don't think so. If you look at
the development of television...
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it is going to be
this fabulous tool...
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and its incredible ability
to beam out films...
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all over the world by satellite...
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and everybody will be able
to watch them simultaneously.
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thanks to that amaZing
device called video...
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Well. then l do feel that cinema
as we know it is on the way out.
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Even while l was making my film
''Mourir � 30 Ans''...
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l would sometimes
have this feeling...
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that it was all out of date.
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Magnetic sound recording.
all the lab processing...
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the things you have
to do to a film...
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how cumbersome and
time-consuming it all is...
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when all you're doing is
trying to tell a story.
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for instance. when l was shooting
''Mourir � 30 Ans''...
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telephone.
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Hello?
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No. nobody here.
l am alone.
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l don't know. because l am alone.
l can't answer to you.
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Very strange talking to yourself.
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l don't know. l don't know.
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l'd like to think
that films are...
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l don't know.
Let me just talk personally.
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the reason l make movies
l think films are about passion' n.
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People make a film the same way
they might paint a painting...
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because they are passionate about
something. because they like life...
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and they want to reflect that and
they put it in a certain form.
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When that passion
goes out of movies...
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that's when it starts
to die like any...
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like any other art form
that just becomes...
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lifeless.
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lt's not the cinema that's dead.
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lt's the filmmakers
who make moronic films.
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People die because they're not allowed
to make the films they want to. But...
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that's another story...
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''there are fewer movies
being made''. that's true.
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films are getting polarized.
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One strand of cinema
sensation-oriented cinema...
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which tends to be
colossal and bombastic...
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you can definitely see that.
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On the other hand
like l said...
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there is very individual cinema...
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or national cinema of
individual filmmakers...
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which is far more important today...
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than cinema which is
indistinguishable from television.
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l think l'll start by taking
my shoes off.
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You can't answer a question
like that with your shoes on.
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l don't see the situation
in such a dramatic way...
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as the question seems to imply.
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l feel that we aren't all that
dependent on television.
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film aesthetic is something
apart and separate.
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TV is just a kind of jukebox.
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You're never inside the space of
a theater or inside the film itself.
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you have sort of a mobile position
as a viewer.
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And you can switch it off.
You can't switch off a cinema.
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l'm not all that worried.
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l was talking to a friend
one night recently in New York.
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We went for a long walk and he
told me how worried he was about...
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everything being taken over
by video and television.
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soon. you'll choose vegetables in
the supermarket by video camera...
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or by pressing buttons
on your telephone...
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or your computer.
you can order your meal.
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lt won't be long before you can draw
money out of the bank via video...
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or this medium here.
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''l'm not so worried about camera
or film''. l said to him...
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''because whatever happens there.
that's not where life happens.
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Life is going on somewhere else.
Wherever life is dynamic...
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wherever life touches us
most directly...
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that's where you'll find the cinema.
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And that's what will survive.
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Only that will always survive.''
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And...
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therefore l am most likely
the last one who is worried...
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the last one who is worried
about a question like that.
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l'm gonna turn it off now.
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l started out writing.
l wrote these novels...
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and l felt like l was trapped inside
this enormous tradition.
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Movies for me were free
there were no rules.
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there was my turf. l could do
anything l wanted to do...
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just like everybody else was doing.
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that's movies. you know?
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Cinema's already...
the books are on the shelf.
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Personally. l'd like to stop
making films every day.
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lf l could put together...
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small productions
to make small films...
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with the energy and passion
that l know l have...
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that would be my choice.
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Here. instead. l perceive...
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that the screenwriter disappears...
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and the language
and subject matter...
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are not that interesting.
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l don't know what else
l can say...
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but l would like...
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to emphasize...
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that electronic films
do not interest me.
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And l think they can't really interest
any true artist.
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l am grateful for this interview
in every way.
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Later l would even like to see it.
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thank you.
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the truth is...
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the problem l have with the cinema.
with the films l watch...
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with the directors l like and
who affect my work. is this:
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how do you make a film
without getting trapped...
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in a vicious circle?
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A film is made from creativity.
struggle and pain.
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But people who make films
no longer take the time to live.
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filmmaking overlaps with life
to such an extent that...
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you have to ask yourself.
at what point...
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am l putting my own life on the
screen. or living out my own films?
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the interweaving is so strong...
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l don't know if today movie makers and
movie-goers take their time to live.
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l'm one of the last of optimists...
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about the history and the future of the
motion picture industry in Hollywood.
307
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But l really believe that all
my colleagues who...
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love film...
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and know nothing else...
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lf there were...
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lf the end of the world came. we
couldn't dig a hole to climb into.
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We wouldn't know how to do that
either. We know movie making.
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so l have to be very optimistic
that movies are only going to...
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expand...
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Hopefully. not at the expense of
other films that might contract...
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for economic reasons.
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Because we all know money is
short today. It's 1982.
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the dollar doesn't stretch as much
as it used to.
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ln 1974. when l made ''Jaws'' and
l went a 100 days over schedule...
320
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went from 55 to 155 shooting days...
321
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the budget went to US$ 8 millions.
which is twice as much.
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today. because of the dollar.
the franc. the Marc...
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the Yen. whatever...
324
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because we're experiencing runaway
inflation within the film business...
325
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''Jaws'' today would probably cost
about US$ 27 millions...
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if you shot a 155 shooting days.
a full crew...
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away from home. in local motels. have
to feed them and take care of them.
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so...
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my fear is...
330
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that a movie like my
most current film. ''E.R.''...
331
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,
which cost US$ 10.3 millions
which for me is...
332
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really the least expensive movie l've
made in the last couple of years...
333
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,
Even a film like ''E.r.''
5 years from now...
334
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will cost US$ 18 millions. that picture
takes place in a house. children...
335
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a backyard. a front yard.
one shot in the forest.
336
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Very limited locations.
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l don't think we can go around
blaming people for...
338
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blaming unions for
inflating budgets...
339
00:31:41,559 --> 00:31:45,539
by the annual 150% increase
in Hollywood across the board.
340
00:31:46,700 --> 00:31:50,240
We can't just blame the government
nor the shrinking dollar.
341
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Because there's nobody to blame...
342
00:31:53,069 --> 00:31:55,500
because of the state
of the economic art...
343
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l think the best do can do
is just live with what we got...
344
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make the best movies
we know how.
345
00:32:01,109 --> 00:32:04,450
lf we've to compromise to make a film
that looks like a US$ 15 millions...
346
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or perhaps US$ 3 or 4 millions.
we just gonna have to do it.
347
00:32:09,690 --> 00:32:12,529
We're the prisoners from
our own time. and our generation...
348
00:32:13,130 --> 00:32:17,519
is the only generation that's gonna be
able to break through this kind of...
349
00:32:21,769 --> 00:32:23,960
l don't know what you would call it.
kind of like be a...
350
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lt seems that Hollywood...
351
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lt's not that l'm guilt of this.
l've just been...
352
00:32:32,049 --> 00:32:34,599
fortunate to have made
some very successful films...
353
00:32:35,150 --> 00:32:38,049
but seems like everybody
in studio positions...
354
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with the power to say yes.
and the power to say no...
355
00:32:41,690 --> 00:32:42,980
wants a homerun with
everybody on base...
356
00:32:43,359 --> 00:32:47,339
they want a grand slam.
with the games tied 4 and 4.
357
00:32:48,099 --> 00:32:51,059
Everybody wants to be a hero.
358
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And they want to ride into Hollywood
at the 11th hour...
359
00:32:56,299 --> 00:32:59,369
and pull a piece
of shit out of the...
360
00:33:00,009 --> 00:33:01,849
closet and turn into
some sort of a silk purse...
361
00:33:02,309 --> 00:33:04,039
and you have a last-minute hit...
362
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,380
and everybody wants the hit
to be a US$ 100 millions hit.
363
00:33:08,650 --> 00:33:12,019
there seems to be an attitude among
the people who run the studios...
364
00:33:12,690 --> 00:33:15,849
not all of them. but a lot of people
who run the studios...
365
00:33:16,490 --> 00:33:18,569
seem to have an attitude that...
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00:33:19,190 --> 00:33:23,319
if a film can't at least reach
3rd base let alone home...
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then we don't really know if they
wanna make this picture.
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00:33:26,170 --> 00:33:27,369
And that's the danger:
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00:33:27,730 --> 00:33:30,799
the danger is not from the filmmakers.
the producers. the writers...
370
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is from the people who are
in control of the money...
371
00:33:35,339 --> 00:33:36,680
who essentially say:
''l want my money back...
372
00:33:37,079 --> 00:33:41,559
l want those returns multiplied by
the powers of 10''.
373
00:33:43,279 --> 00:33:48,500
''l'm not interested in seeing
a movie about your personal life...
374
00:33:49,420 --> 00:33:51,119
your grandfather...
375
00:33:51,559 --> 00:33:54,519
what was like to grow up
in an American school...
376
00:33:55,130 --> 00:34:00,289
or what was like to masturbate
for the first time at 13. whatever.
377
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,099
l want a picture that is going
to please everybody.
378
00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:07,799
ln other words. l think Hollywood
wants the ideal movie...
379
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with something in it for everyone.
and of course that's impossible.
380
00:34:19,119 --> 00:34:22,219
What l think about this problem is...
381
00:34:22,860 --> 00:34:27,250
l'd prefer to speak Italian.
It's easier for me.
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00:34:28,059 --> 00:34:31,159
l believe this is a serious problem...
383
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,719
and you did the right thing. Wim...
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00:34:36,469 --> 00:34:39,489
to face it in a movie.
385
00:34:41,070 --> 00:34:46,780
As you said. it is true that the
existence of cinema is threatened.
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00:34:48,550 --> 00:34:52,150
We have to keep in mind other things.
387
00:34:52,849 --> 00:34:55,510
there are different aspects
to this problem...
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00:34:56,090 --> 00:34:58,989
that can't be denied.
389
00:34:59,590 --> 00:35:01,460
for example...
390
00:35:01,929 --> 00:35:07,730
the fact that television
is influencing everybody...
391
00:35:09,570 --> 00:35:13,730
the mentality and the eye
of the viewer. is undeniable.
392
00:35:14,510 --> 00:35:19,289
Especially the younger viewers.
the kids.
393
00:35:20,150 --> 00:35:26,010
But it is undeniable that we think
that this subject is particularly...
394
00:35:27,989 --> 00:35:29,099
serious...
395
00:35:30,119 --> 00:35:32,610
possibly only.
because we are a different age.
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00:35:33,159 --> 00:35:35,940
We have to adapt...
397
00:35:36,530 --> 00:35:41,389
to what is the need
of entertainment in the future.
398
00:35:42,269 --> 00:35:44,199
We all know that
there are 9 forms of...
399
00:35:44,670 --> 00:35:49,360
representation of reality.
400
00:35:50,210 --> 00:35:52,550
there are new forms of reproduction...
401
00:35:53,079 --> 00:35:58,059
new technologies like the magnetic
tape. which will probably...
402
00:35:58,949 --> 00:36:01,139
come to replace
traditional film stock...
403
00:36:01,659 --> 00:36:05,230
which no longer meets...
404
00:36:05,929 --> 00:36:10,760
today's requirements.
405
00:36:11,630 --> 00:36:14,320
lt has problems.
for instance...
406
00:36:14,900 --> 00:36:18,820
Scorsese has pointed out
that color...
407
00:36:19,570 --> 00:36:23,030
film fades over time.
408
00:36:23,710 --> 00:36:26,869
lt is an interesting problem.
that concerns films more...
409
00:36:27,510 --> 00:36:30,530
than magnetic tapes.
410
00:36:31,179 --> 00:36:35,340
l believe that with
the new technologies...
411
00:36:36,119 --> 00:36:38,840
like the electronic system...
412
00:36:39,429 --> 00:36:42,650
and maybe others. like lasers.
who knows...
413
00:36:43,300 --> 00:36:45,909
or others that are
yet to be invented...
414
00:36:46,530 --> 00:36:51,570
the audience is growing...
415
00:36:52,469 --> 00:36:55,809
and this problem will be resolved.
416
00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,090
l still don't know how...
417
00:36:58,510 --> 00:37:02,019
and l am myself worried about
the future of cinema.
418
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,789
We are still attached to film...
419
00:37:06,389 --> 00:37:08,880
because film has given us
many opportunities...
420
00:37:09,420 --> 00:37:12,110
to show what we feel...
421
00:37:12,690 --> 00:37:15,849
and what we thought
we had to say.
422
00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:21,010
But it is possible that with
the acquisition of new...
423
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,940
technologies. like the magnetic tape.
with what it will be able to offer...
424
00:37:26,710 --> 00:37:31,949
possibly this feeling we have.
will no longer exist.
425
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:35,980
ln reality. there is always
a gap between today...
426
00:37:36,619 --> 00:37:40,130
and tomorrow's mentality
that we can't foresee.
427
00:37:40,820 --> 00:37:43,429
We can't even predict how these
houses will look like...
428
00:37:43,989 --> 00:37:46,130
these ones we see
outside the window.
429
00:37:46,630 --> 00:37:49,030
One day they'll no longer be there...
430
00:37:49,559 --> 00:37:52,929
We don't only have to think...
431
00:37:53,599 --> 00:37:56,590
short term.
432
00:37:57,199 --> 00:38:00,739
But we have to think of a future
that will probably never end.
433
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:07,300
We have to think of the
viewer's needs in the future.
434
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:10,760
l am not as pessimistic.
435
00:38:13,489 --> 00:38:15,449
l have to say that l am quite...
436
00:38:19,230 --> 00:38:20,400
Well...
437
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:24,360
l've always tried to adapt
to the forms...
438
00:38:25,929 --> 00:38:29,269
of expression
that would fit the time.
439
00:38:29,940 --> 00:38:32,929
so l made a movie in videotape...
440
00:38:35,510 --> 00:38:39,760
many years ago. when research
on colors was required.
441
00:38:40,550 --> 00:38:42,949
l painted the reality.
442
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,380
lt was a rudimentary system...
443
00:38:45,849 --> 00:38:50,010
but it anticipates my work on video.
444
00:38:50,789 --> 00:38:55,769
l'd like to try further experiments
in that direction...
445
00:38:56,659 --> 00:38:57,949
because l'm sure that...
446
00:38:58,329 --> 00:39:01,900
the different...
447
00:39:02,599 --> 00:39:05,030
possibilities...
448
00:39:05,570 --> 00:39:07,300
of video...
449
00:39:07,739 --> 00:39:11,869
will teach us different ways
of thinking about ourselves.
450
00:39:17,679 --> 00:39:22,780
lt's difficult to talk about
the future of cinema.
451
00:39:24,789 --> 00:39:27,690
Probably. widely...
452
00:39:28,289 --> 00:39:30,780
high-quality videocassettes will soon
bring films into people's homes...
453
00:39:31,329 --> 00:39:34,639
and with high definition
magnetic tape...
454
00:39:35,300 --> 00:39:38,960
we'll have cinema at home. We won't
need to go to the movie theaters.
455
00:39:39,670 --> 00:39:42,599
Current structures will disappear.
456
00:39:43,210 --> 00:39:46,900
Not as quickly and easily
as that suggests...
457
00:39:47,610 --> 00:39:49,659
but it will happen.
458
00:39:50,150 --> 00:39:55,369
the change is inevitable...
459
00:39:56,289 --> 00:40:00,360
and we can't do anything
to prevent it. We will only have...
460
00:40:01,130 --> 00:40:04,150
one thing to do:
we will need to adapt.
461
00:40:05,269 --> 00:40:08,610
l examined the problem
of adapting...
462
00:40:09,269 --> 00:40:13,550
in ''Deserto Rosso''.
463
00:40:14,340 --> 00:40:17,440
Adapting to new technologies...
464
00:40:18,079 --> 00:40:22,940
to new levels of pollution
in the air...
465
00:40:23,820 --> 00:40:26,539
that we'll have to breathe
in the future.
466
00:40:27,119 --> 00:40:29,989
Our own organism will evolve.
467
00:40:30,590 --> 00:40:33,199
Who knows what lies in store for us?
468
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,980
the future will present itself...
469
00:40:37,630 --> 00:40:42,050
with unimaginable ruthlessness.
470
00:40:42,869 --> 00:40:45,739
But we can guess what it would be.
471
00:40:47,469 --> 00:40:49,170
l believe that...
472
00:40:51,909 --> 00:40:55,539
Now l would need to restate
what l've just said.
473
00:40:56,250 --> 00:41:00,670
l'm neither a good speaker.
nor a good abstract thinker.
474
00:41:01,489 --> 00:41:04,510
l like to be practical and...
475
00:41:05,119 --> 00:41:08,690
do the experiments
instead of talking about them.
476
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,130
My feelings is that...
477
00:41:11,559 --> 00:41:15,019
it won't be all that hard...
478
00:41:15,699 --> 00:41:18,829
to transform us into new men...
479
00:41:19,469 --> 00:41:22,750
better adapted to
our new technologies.
480
00:41:23,409 --> 00:41:25,780
this is all l have to say.
481
00:41:40,389 --> 00:41:44,289
Yesterday l went to see
another filmmaker...
482
00:41:45,030 --> 00:41:49,130
who was unable to
come to this room.
483
00:41:52,510 --> 00:41:54,000
He is a Turk.
484
00:41:56,079 --> 00:42:00,150
the Turkish government has demanded
his extradition and for that reason...
485
00:42:01,650 --> 00:42:04,230
he couldn't leave the security
of his place of refuge.
486
00:42:04,780 --> 00:42:10,320
He has answered the same question
concerning the future of the cinema...
487
00:42:11,289 --> 00:42:13,190
and recorded his reply.
488
00:42:14,659 --> 00:42:17,699
l think l'm just going to play it.
489
00:42:19,500 --> 00:42:21,230
Mr. Yilmaz G�ney...
490
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:31,590
l think...
491
00:42:41,119 --> 00:42:43,260
Cinema should be examined
from two angles:
492
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:49,300
the industry cinema
and the artistic cinema.
493
00:42:50,260 --> 00:42:53,449
Between the industry cinema
and the artistic cinema...
494
00:42:54,099 --> 00:42:56,210
there is an unbreakable bond.
495
00:42:56,699 --> 00:43:00,800
Because of this. for the film
industry to reach the masses...
496
00:43:01,570 --> 00:43:05,670
the film industry should especially
consider the expectations...
497
00:43:06,449 --> 00:43:10,400
the mood
and the desires of the masses.
498
00:43:11,550 --> 00:43:13,739
However. the desires of the masses
are not frozen...
499
00:43:14,250 --> 00:43:17,000
not unchanging and not monotonous.
500
00:43:17,590 --> 00:43:22,599
for this reason. filmmaking.
in order to reach the masses...
501
00:43:23,500 --> 00:43:26,079
should consider
changes in the masses...
502
00:43:26,630 --> 00:43:32,489
if need be. the social changes
or-political changes...
503
00:43:33,510 --> 00:43:36,579
changes of consciousness...
504
00:43:37,210 --> 00:43:38,880
constantly.
505
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:45,260
While artistic cinema
talks about the masses...
506
00:43:46,119 --> 00:43:51,360
industry cinema primarily
considers money.
507
00:43:53,690 --> 00:43:58,440
lf artistic cinema cannot satisfy...
508
00:43:59,300 --> 00:44:04,690
the needs of the industry cinema...
509
00:44:05,639 --> 00:44:08,300
in other words...
510
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,719
if it doesn't make money...
511
00:44:12,309 --> 00:44:16,380
the bond is broken
and there is change.
512
00:44:18,019 --> 00:44:20,980
for example. when a lot of
young filmmakers...
513
00:44:21,590 --> 00:44:25,219
advancing young filmmakers...
514
00:44:25,929 --> 00:44:29,739
come in contact with producers
from advanced capitalist countries...
515
00:44:30,460 --> 00:44:32,190
they lose their independence.
516
00:44:32,630 --> 00:44:37,260
Whatever limits are drawn
by large capital...
517
00:44:38,099 --> 00:44:40,650
they are forced to work
within these limits.
518
00:44:41,210 --> 00:44:44,719
At this point. not becoming
part of advancing cinema...
519
00:44:45,409 --> 00:44:49,329
but becoming part of
collapsed. dissolved...
520
00:44:50,079 --> 00:44:52,389
and outdated filmmaking is wanted.
521
00:44:52,989 --> 00:44:54,659
That's why it's a tragedy...
an artist's tragedy.
522
00:44:55,090 --> 00:44:57,369
Also this should be taken as
advancing cinema's...
523
00:44:57,889 --> 00:45:00,000
tragedy.
524
00:45:00,489 --> 00:45:02,449
Basically. in my country...
525
00:45:02,929 --> 00:45:06,360
dominant. advancing cinema
is old-fashioned.
526
00:45:07,030 --> 00:45:11,130
On the other hand. there is
a blooming type of cinema...
527
00:45:11,900 --> 00:45:15,119
that is being constantly
suppressed...
528
00:45:15,780 --> 00:45:18,820
banned. punished. silenced...
529
00:45:19,449 --> 00:45:22,670
by some dominant forces.
530
00:45:43,199 --> 00:45:45,829
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