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August 19, 2006

Trust the Man Blog : the day after

このブログの投稿はDDが書いているのですが、個人的に面白いと思ったので取り上げてみました。

「(前略)・・・僕が思うに、映画に対する批評家の反応についてみんなあまり喜んでいない。これは残念だ。 しかし僕らは批評家のために映画を作っていない。みんなが映画を見に行って、楽しんだり、笑ったり、泣いたりするために作っている。そんな映画じゃないと攻撃するのは簡単だ。僕が思うに「snakes on a plane」のようにワクワクすることはとても楽しい、なぜなら映画を作ることはみんなができそうなことだし、多分できることだと思う。僕はTTMのような映画に対して、それがみんなに与えようとしている思い:楽しい時間、笑い、共感するときなんかも、そしてひょっとすると合理的な失望感もあるかもしれない、そんな観点で映画に接してほしい。なぜなら、この点においてすべて含んでいるこの映画は発言者であって、無駄口をたたいている声ではなく、取り上げられるべき声なのだ。・・・(後略)」

...いかん、ちんぷんかんぷんな訳かも。「word of mouth. not the mouths that carp. the mouths that count」がよくわかっていない(爆)もし訳の正誤があれば遠慮無く教えてくださいませ。
ちなみにこの部分は後半の部分です。前半も結構良いこと言っているんですよ。(でも翻訳する能力・気力が無いのでこれで勘弁してくださいませ)
彼自身、自分で映画製作をしたことがあるせいか、とても的を得た発言をしています。確かに映画は批評家のために作るものじゃなくて、みんなが楽しむために作るものなんですよ。だから映画を見た人が自分で感じ取るのが一番なんです。
なので是非TTMを日本で見てみたいので、配給会社の皆様、日本公開の方よろしくお願いします。(そう来るか。:笑)

Trust The Man: the day after

i've been out of it here in vancouver getting ready to start a new movie and therefore a little out of touch, but it's good to know that bart and i and julie won't be the only ones discussing the film any more. there are many experiences to doing a film. there's the primary one---how it feels on set in character with the other characters and the people playing them, your life in that time and place, there's your individual experience as you watch the finished product, then there's the release to the public, then there's the slow process of a film settling down in to a long history of film. i don't know which stage is fraught with more anxiety and intensity; each brings up its own set of terrors and exhilirations. my sense is that not everybody is pleased with the critical response to the film. that's unfortunate. but we don't make films for critics. we make them for a wide audience to go and enjoy, laugh, cry etc. it is easy to attack a film for what it is not. i suppose it feels good to get excited about something like snakes on a plane cause it makes moviemaking seem like anybody could do it. maybe anybody can. i wish that people would approach a film like ttm in the spirit in which it is offered---a good time, laughs, perhaps a moment of empathy or three---and maybe some legitimate disappointment (who knows---that's certainly fair)because at this point all that carries this film is word of mouth. not the mouths that carp. the mouths that count. yours. thanks for joining in on all this. d

Posted by David Duchovny on August 19, 2006 09:30 AM

August 14, 2006

Trust the Man Blog : this is weird (by Julie)

ジュリアンが約束通りブログに投稿してくれました!バート、よくやった!(?)彼女の投稿分は以下の通りです。日本語の意訳も載せておきますので、参考程度にご覧下さい。(もし訳ミスがあったらゴメンナサイ。)

【日本語訳】
オーケイ、これって変。私は今までブログしたことがなくて多分間違えていると思うんだけれど。ちゃんと正しいサイトで「talladega nights」とかみたいなものではないことを祈ります。もしこれが正しければ。こちらはジュリアン・ムーアです(バートとして投稿)。私は現在バルセロナにいて、Savage Graceという映画を撮影中です。あと2週間あってその後家に帰ります。Trust the Manの公開にはとても興奮しています。私はこの映画を作れてとても良かったし、家のあるニューヨークで私たちの友達や家族のメンバーを集められるだけ集めて撮影できたのは素晴らしいことだと思いました。そして私は普段なかなか出会えないと思われる(というのは私だけ?とにかく)、家庭を持ち、仕事が役者という女性のキャラクターを演ずることが出来てとても良かったです。まるで私とか私の友達みたい!バートと一緒に仕事するのは素晴らしかったし、脚本もとても面白かった。私が一番残念だったのはとても面白かったものが最終的に映画に入らなかったこと。たとえばデイヴィッド(・ドゥカブニー)の振動する玉の話とか、私とビリー(・クラダップ)のハムスター事件とか。しかし妙なことにマギー(・ギレンホール)は妊娠することになったし、私は秋に舞台をすることになったし。

多分バートは超能力者なのかも。

Trust The Man: this is weird

okay this is weird, i've never blogged before and i think maybe i'm doing it wrong - i hope i've gone to the right site and not talladega nights or something. if this is the right place - this is julianne moore [posting as Bart] and i am in barcelona, shooting a movie called savage grace. i have 2 more weeks and then i come home. i'm very excited about the opening of trust the man - i loved making this movie. it was wonderful to shoot at home in new york with all of our friends and just about every family member we could round up. and i loved playing a character that i don't think you get to see that often - ( or i don't anyway) a woman with a family who just happens to have a job acting. kind of like me and alot of my friends! bart was wonderful to work with, and the script was so funny - my biggest disappointment was that some of the funniest stuff ended up not being in the movie - like david and his vibrating balls, and me and billy and the hamster incident. and oddly - maggie has ended up pregnant and i'm doing a play in the fall.

maybe bart is psychic.

Posted by Bart Freundlich on August 14, 2006 10:06 AM

August 13, 2006

Trust the Man Blog : directing the actor

今回のバートのブログで気になる点:ジュリ様が子ども向けの本を書いて来年出版予定なの?初耳情報でビックリでした。
この記事の注目点:映画と実生活とのつながり(ジュリ様、マギーの場合)、俳優である友人を監督することの利点(バートとDDの口臭漫才)、ヒーロー風ジャンプの話(背が高い方が不利)

Trust The Man: directing the actor

Hi all... Sorry for the delay... I did not get to hold a baby lion but my dog cherry did sit in my lap while I watched david holding the baby lion. The premiere was a great night... though I am anxious for the film to finally come out which will allow people I dont know see it... (or lets hope)

I was reminded of a couple things on the night of the premiere. One was how odd it is that in a lot of cases I think life imitates art, as oppose to the more traditional view that art imitates life... Maggies character Elaine screams out in the film "I want to get married and have a baby!' and there she was at the premiere 18 month later hugely pregnant with her fiance... Also Julie character "Rebecca" is a film actress doing a broadway play (by Edmund Middleton... my brother and my middle names combined, [trivia tidbit]) and though Julie has never done a play or expressed any interest in doing one since we've been together she will appear on broadway this winter for the first time ever... also like maggie's character Elaine Julie just finished writing a children's book to be published next year. Anyway... its not like im saying that my movie is responsible for all those things I just think its interesting that sometimes actors are attracted to things that deal with issues that are floating around in their subconscious that have yet to come to fruition... does that make any sense? Some how they, me, we work things out in our heads by exploring them in a fictional world but then we find some of that fictional world has spilled over into our real lives...

A couple other things I was reminded of: One day on the set I approached David with a serious look on my face and he has since told me he thought "oh great, here comes a really insightful direction into my character, I could really use that right now". I then walked up leaned in close and said, "tell me the truth "(pause as I look directly into his eyes) "Do I know or have you ever thought that I have bad breath?" So much for the great directing... But thats the advantage of having such close friends on the set. It also speaks to another directorial trait... vanity... its not just for actors.

Later that night we were shooting a shot where david and Billy jump through the doors like super heros ready to reclaim their women back at all costs. It's a somewhat tongue in cheek moment, here are these buffoons acting larger than life and I kept encouraging them to make the jump bigger... "More super-hero like" I would shout... "you can even go bigger with that"... finally "Jump as high as you can on this next one". Well this wasnt a problem for Billy because he is short... I know those of you whove seen almost famous find that hard to believe but yes... 5'9"... but davis who is 6'2" leaped and smashed his head into the metal door frame above making a sound so sickening that I was sure he had cracked his skull open. To his credit he finished the take without so much as a whimper... Turned out to be just a goose egg. I always know my actors trust me when i can direct them to do something ridiculous that could very well end their careers and they do it... DD thanks for that and sorry.... I also had to throw a wooden spoon at my wifes face, but thats a different story...

bart

Posted by Bart Freundlich on August 13, 2006 07:42 PM

August 4, 2006

Trust the Man Blog : premiere

Trust The Man: premiere

Sorry for the delay in the blogging... We are gettin ready for the premiere of the film Monday. I'm working on posting a few pictures of alternate posters we had made for the film.
ブログするの遅れてごめん...。僕らは月曜日の映画のプレミアの準備をしているところだ。僕は映画のために作ったポスターの別バージョンの写真配置に取り組んでいる。

The entire cast is coming in for the event and it really makes me realize how lucky I've been getting to work with all these actors... The four big ones are obvious, but i also got to work with Eva Mendes, Garry Shandling, Bob Balaban, Justin Bartha.... It makes such a difference when you have capable actors in the supporting roles... It really helps to add a sense of three dimentionality to the story ... when you believe these character have a life that is going on even when they are not on screen.
全キャストがイベントに来てくれる。それで僕は彼らのような俳優と働くことができてラッキーだと本当に気づかされる。4人の主役はもちろんだし、他にもEva Mendes, Garry Shandling, Bob Balaban, Justin Barthaと働くことになった。このような優秀な俳優を脇役とするとかなりのインパクトがつくれる。この物語の三次元的な感覚を付け加えることができたし....だって彼らのような登場人物が画面にいなくても、彼らには生活があるって信じるだろう。

HBO has just cut together a behind the scenes special that will begin airing soon that gives a really good idea of exactly how committed all these actors were. My wife has also promised to blog in the next day.
HBOが「a behind the scenes」スペシャルを一緒に編集していて、もうすぐ放映されると思うけれど、それもこのような俳優達がどれだけ貢献しているかがよくわかると思う。僕の妻もまた次の日にブログをすると約束してくれた。

Thanks for all the support
みんなのサポートありがとう。

bart

Posted by Bart Freundlich on August 4, 2006 12:25 PM

というわけで、現在バートとDDの「Trust the Man」共同ブログがかなり進んでいるのですが、8/4のバートの投稿にすんごい文章を発見!
僕の妻もまた次の日にブログをすると約束してくれた。
ってジュリ様がブログをしますか!! というわけで、ジュリアンがTtM共同ブログに投稿するかもしれません。こうご期待。
他にも月曜日(8/7)にプレミアがあるみたいですね。あとHBOが「a behind the scenes」で取り上げるとか。