'Public Enemies', the next film by American director, with Johnny Depp and Christian Bale.
Why Dillinger's fame?
known for its intelligence manage public opinion and the media. In the robbery told the bank customers not to worry, they do not steal them, but the banker. We have not invented anything, but resorted to filming at the time.
What attracted him most of the character? As
took life. Spent ten years in prison and in the thirteen months he was released, I try to live four lives at a time. Sought the friendship, love. Going to the movies or dancing, while the police pursued him. He became the second most common type in the country after the president.
Strange, being a thief ...
But very romantic. Could have assembled a booty and escaped to Brazil, but did not. Mm organizing a robbery but did not know what he would do two days later. This immediacy, the urgency, were fascinating. And his humor was able to write to thank Henry Ford for their cars were so fast and reliable because they were the best to escape the police. Ford published the letter in the newspapers.
What was going through your head?
do not know, and that's what attracted me most. Lived surreal moments, like watching a movie based on his life, played by Clark Gable, while 30 policemen waiting to meet outside the dead to slaughter.
Police stop it does not work Public Enemies: to catch criminals, they are more violent.
Although it is not holy devotion, Herbert Hooover (U.S. president between 1929 and 1933) revolutionized the police to prosecute criminals like Dillinger. When institutions are reformed and sometimes do not know how to act, leading to human error. The police in my film are desperate, and kill Dillinger do not hesitate to torture or extortion. At bottom, the same thing happens to him, only know the language of weapons.
you not afraid that his villains are more attractive than their heroes?
Something fascinates me about people is that although we are the product of our decisions, there are many things that influence us. There are horrible characters, if you tell your children, I would mourn. Both can coexist. People like Dillinger, so contradictory, I attract. It's bad but, like everyone, is not at all. I bored the one-dimensional characters.
How is directing Johnny Depp and Christian Bale? In
great fun shooting, but that does not mean you are playing: always ask my players an absolute commitment. But everyone comes to him in a different way. Depp works better identificarse con el personaje, y Dillinger le interesaba desde hacia tiempo. Yo quería que interpretase un papel más duro que los que está haciendo últimamente. Con Bale no hay que trabajar mucho:_se mete hasta el fondo del personaje, desde el primer al último día de rodaje.
Su película habla de los EE UU de la Gran Depresión. ¿En qué se parece ese país al de ahora?
Puse en marcha la película en 2007, antes de la crisis económica, así que no era nada planeado. La situación de entonces era mucho peor: uno de cada cuatro americanos estaba en el paro, millones de familias se quedaron sin nada. Pero hay algo en común: la idea generalizada de que Most people go through troubles and a privileged few are keeping everything. The social differences that exist in my country are excessive. Back
shooting in digital, why? I try
conventional film, but the image seemed too cinematic, movie times, and I wanted something more real. I wanted to cross the street with the thieves, you tucked in the balls. A total immersion in that period.
also abound in the film the scenes of shootings. How does the planning?
As a fight, although it is not something physical, even if no punches one of the two has to be winners. Nothing could be free: every move is critical. It is very important to explain before why the characters faced, which is losing one if hit by a shot. This increases the drama. Later, in the shooting, is a matter of choreography. There are many cameras in operation, many cables, lights, permission to ask, but everything must be planned to the millimeter.
Will the actors to write the script?
No. I only did it once, with Leonardo diCaprio and in the end, even directed the film [refers to The Aviator]. The process is usually the opposite: to write the history built a very strong base and seeking to build a complete psychological profile of the characters, which players adapt.
What is more difficult, choose a story or narrate? Finding
. But there are exceptional cases, as Collateral: there was the hardest thing to tell a story so dense that develops in so few hours. After the frames that were developed over many years, like Ali or The Last of the Mohicans, I needed to focus on something too quickly. It was a pleasure.
His latest films
Mohicans (1992).
After six years without direct a feature in the film, Mann adapted the classic novel by James Fenimore Cooper getting the first of his greatest hits. Music and epic performances.
Heat (1995).
With a star cast headed by Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, Mann signed one of the police more rounds of the last decades. Intelligence, melancholy and a memorable final.
The Dilemma (1999).
Criticism surrendered to this long morality tale, based on real events, about the power of large corporations, the courage it takes to fight and the role of media in the battle.
Ali (2001).
Spike Lee put the outcry when he learned that a target would be responsible for narrating the life of Cassius Clay, but Mann was a favorite of Will Smith. The result, as always, was a title more than correct.
Collateral (2004).
Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx offer two great performances in this match theatrical moral intensity. Its ambiguity and dynamism make an example of how to reinvent the black cinema.
Miami Vice (2006).
Here there was no doubt as creator of the hit series, Mann was the most suitable for film adaptation. Averse to any kind of parody of the eighties, the result is a dark and sexy film.
Public Enemies (2009).
classic flavor with modern technology: the director shows the profile of a famous friendly bank robber in yet another demonstration of how much you like to join the camp of the villains.
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