By making remakes delusional great popular films, the filmmaker delivers a manifesto for joyous creativity.
"Be cool, rewind" Comedy of Michel Gondry with Jack Black, Mos Def.Durée: 1:39. "Film Criticism
The trailer of the film
Forty-five years and an air of eternal youth. Michel Gondry has always head in the stars and feet in the clouds. At first the Versaillais today in New York, has become known in her own style unusual and colorful clips of Björk. With his fourth feature film, Be Cool, rewind, the illusionist Gondry pays tribute to the beginnings of cinema and jazz through the figure of the pianist Fats Waller. The story? Two friends (Jack Black, Mos Def), who inadvertently erased all of a video cassette, decide to take, with the means at hand, their own versions of the films.
LE FIGARO. How did the idea for this film?
Michel GONDRY. At the age of 20, when I landed in Paris, I had imagined resume a small cinema in the eighteenth arrondissement, where the locals have tinkered movies and have projected. I took this utopia in Be Cool, rewind. I assume that people can make their own distraction. The publicity drives them to believe that the entertainment must pass through consumption. I must support this idea, I do with the resistance! For a child, it is natural to build things imperfect, it is part of their learning. That is lost in adulthood because we have a social role to play. I am often charge of immaturity, but that does not prevent me to continue to defend this creativity, even if it goes through stages, the results naive or approximate. Indeed, the beginning of the story of the film is completely abracadabrant!
You advocate D system with the realization of remakes delusional SOS Ghosts, Robocop or King Kong. Why are these films in particular?
These are popular films and I did not want to impose my personal taste. In addition, it m'amusait making remakes with a lot less money than the original! Be Cool is not an elitist work for moviegoers. Today, via the Internet and blogs, everyone becomes a film critic and you lose the joy of being a mere spectator. In the United States, the parody film is not regulated, however, with regard to the jacket of K7, it is necessary to seek official permission was denied to me, for example Back to the Future, one of my favorite movies.
The film combines both your unconditional love for the cinema and jazz. Why did you choose as Fats Waller figure?
Because he had a dissolute life and it is my favorite musician! Fats Waller burned the candle at both ends. He died at age 39 of pneumonia in a train. The story of his life, filmed by the people of Passaic, is authentic, with one exception: Fats Waller has never lived there! By contrast, the "rent parties" have really existed. In Harlem, in the years 1920-1930, when they could not pay the rent, climbed on a piano in the floors. People gave a dollar for the feast and virtuoso pianists like Fats Waller, JP Johnson, Willie the Lion Smith, Duke Ellington was measured during competitions. But the strongest was undeniably Art Tatum who had a technical unbelievable. For the anecdote, a day that Fats Waller played in a club, he said seeing happen Art Tatum: "It's me who plays tonight but God is with us in the room." Black American music and music folk in general have been created by marginalized communities living in difficult conditions and designing their own entertainment. This was of course also interested me.
Your grandfather Constant Martin is the inventor of Clavioline, your parents are musicians. The establishment is hereditary?
Child, I dreamed of being a painter or inventor! I have always been a creative, a king crafts. My son of 16 years is even more artist than me. We will make a cartoon.
"Be cool, rewind" Comedy of Michel Gondry with Jack Black, Mos Def.Durée: 1:39. "Film Criticism
The trailer of the film
Forty-five years and an air of eternal youth. Michel Gondry has always head in the stars and feet in the clouds. At first the Versaillais today in New York, has become known in her own style unusual and colorful clips of Björk. With his fourth feature film, Be Cool, rewind, the illusionist Gondry pays tribute to the beginnings of cinema and jazz through the figure of the pianist Fats Waller. The story? Two friends (Jack Black, Mos Def), who inadvertently erased all of a video cassette, decide to take, with the means at hand, their own versions of the films.
LE FIGARO. How did the idea for this film?
Michel GONDRY. At the age of 20, when I landed in Paris, I had imagined resume a small cinema in the eighteenth arrondissement, where the locals have tinkered movies and have projected. I took this utopia in Be Cool, rewind. I assume that people can make their own distraction. The publicity drives them to believe that the entertainment must pass through consumption. I must support this idea, I do with the resistance! For a child, it is natural to build things imperfect, it is part of their learning. That is lost in adulthood because we have a social role to play. I am often charge of immaturity, but that does not prevent me to continue to defend this creativity, even if it goes through stages, the results naive or approximate. Indeed, the beginning of the story of the film is completely abracadabrant!
You advocate D system with the realization of remakes delusional SOS Ghosts, Robocop or King Kong. Why are these films in particular?
These are popular films and I did not want to impose my personal taste. In addition, it m'amusait making remakes with a lot less money than the original! Be Cool is not an elitist work for moviegoers. Today, via the Internet and blogs, everyone becomes a film critic and you lose the joy of being a mere spectator. In the United States, the parody film is not regulated, however, with regard to the jacket of K7, it is necessary to seek official permission was denied to me, for example Back to the Future, one of my favorite movies.
The film combines both your unconditional love for the cinema and jazz. Why did you choose as Fats Waller figure?
Because he had a dissolute life and it is my favorite musician! Fats Waller burned the candle at both ends. He died at age 39 of pneumonia in a train. The story of his life, filmed by the people of Passaic, is authentic, with one exception: Fats Waller has never lived there! By contrast, the "rent parties" have really existed. In Harlem, in the years 1920-1930, when they could not pay the rent, climbed on a piano in the floors. People gave a dollar for the feast and virtuoso pianists like Fats Waller, JP Johnson, Willie the Lion Smith, Duke Ellington was measured during competitions. But the strongest was undeniably Art Tatum who had a technical unbelievable. For the anecdote, a day that Fats Waller played in a club, he said seeing happen Art Tatum: "It's me who plays tonight but God is with us in the room." Black American music and music folk in general have been created by marginalized communities living in difficult conditions and designing their own entertainment. This was of course also interested me.
Your grandfather Constant Martin is the inventor of Clavioline, your parents are musicians. The establishment is hereditary?
Child, I dreamed of being a painter or inventor! I have always been a creative, a king crafts. My son of 16 years is even more artist than me. We will make a cartoon.
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