David Fincher: ‘The film is a risky, emotional and a half … – The World

The aim of the film, as David Fincher , is to get a group of strangers simultaneously experience feelings. And to do that, he says, conciseness is required: “It’s a big responsibility for someone decide to sit in the dark and devote two hours of their attention,” claimed Monday the director of ‘The Fight Club’ and ‘The Social Network’ . Those who attended his master class in the School of Arts and Entertainment TAI were willing to listen to all the time it took. But the filmmaker was DOA in its Madrid. So lessons were also concise.

Before the first half hour was screened his latest film, ‘Lost’ , which will premiere on October 10 in Spain. The thriller starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike begins with a story of passionate love, but soon becomes something radically different. A well-known New York writer, Amy Dunne (Pike), has mysteriously disappeared. And the suspicion immediately falls on her husband (Affleck).

The film, based on the novel by Gillian Flynn , who has worked with Fincher and screenwriter has to do with an idea that the filmmaker said he had not seen dramatized yet. “It’s about the narcissistic projections we make ourselves to be seduced,” explained the director. “When you’re in the infatuation stage can not imagine you’ll be bored in three or four years, or that you will face with someone who had no idea that it exists.”

Fincher agreed, however, that seduction is one of the fundamental qualities of a good manager : “A filmmaker has to be able to articulate their intent and transmit the scriptwriter, actors, technicians, marketing people” he said. The question came to mind the famous final assembly, which so often is in the hands of producers. “It’s not about being stupid and engage in an idea Filmmaking is a collaborative process that costs millions of dollars,. Need to get the whole team to work in the same direction”

Y in this equation. communication is much more important than technology, said the American. “I always tell young people, ‘ Do you want to make a movie Buy a iPad : from there you can write the script, email, shoot, edit’ There are no excuses.”. What is not so easy to get a group of technicians, managers and artists understand the feeling that the director wants to convey to this group of strangers who provide their care. When has collaborated with musicians like Trent Reznor , Fincher does not stop with unnecessary details, but says, “I want your version of this feeling because no one else can”

<. p> The director also spoke about his recent foray into the world of television series, director and producer of ‘House of Cards’. “I did not do too much television, but it has been very interesting.” Above all, he said, in regard to the characterization: “ The TV is the only place now to work a character, in the film there is no time for good drama, to show that we are all hypocrites at the end “. Fincher regretted that movies needed sacrificed much of the drama to satisfy a growing audience hungry for experience.

Agreed also that the role of interpreters is one of the most complicated. “I do not trust the players who can not hear the views of other stakeholders. People still talk about Tyler Durden [Brad Pitt in 'Fight Club'] because the person who did it mind the impression that we were all there. ” Asked about the glorification of violence on the same tape, Fincher said: “Cinema is a risky, emotional and imperfect medium and a good movie has to have the same”

Taste of Fincher drama is also one of the reasons why his films tend to green and yellow tones mused when asked by a student: “There is a lot of pink on television and on Macs and magenta, to make people look healthy and happy I hate that. seems to me a fraud and we must fight to destroy “

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