filmmakers are pure strain, and demonstrate their courage to explore one of the most venerable genres, the western, changing completely. Miguel Cane
been more than twenty-five years since Joel and Ethan Coen (born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1954 and 1957 respectively) made their debut in the film world with Blood Simple - a tribute to film noir of the 40, but with a postmodern sensibility, and since then have not stopped working, becoming a real power within the industry, which together share the tasks of direction, script and editing and has a very particular style which is readily identifiable - indeed, the actors who worked under him say that, going to ask a question to one or another always get the same answer and have created masterpieces like Raising Arizona, Barton Fink , No Country for Old Men , Going to the death , A serious man, the hilarious The Big Lebowski and Fargo , a very violent black comedy, set in the territories where they spent their childhood and youth.
confessed compulsive moviegoers (see everything), the Coen brothers have addressed basically all genres - to the musical, with its irreverent and sensational Where are you brother? - but never dared to a western plain and simple, as is with nerves of steel, his most recent production, which opened the Berlinale, and has returned to lead the Oscar shortlists.
The film, rather than a remake of that achieved with the legendary John Wayne as a player in 1969, is a more faithful adaptation of Charles Portis's novel, recounting the story of Mattie Ross, a girl fourteen who seeks revenge on the murderer of his father, and that justice is done, hires the formidable Rooster Cogburn - this time played by Jeff Bridges - for the lead in territories inhospitable. The cast is completed by Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and newcomer Hailee Steinfeld, who actually has 14 years, and they exhaustively searched before shooting.
Why make a new version of this story?
Ethan Coen: Well, True Grit was one of our favorite movies when we were growing. But we are not really happened until one day I read the novel and realized that it was completely different from what we saw on the screen, ie a text that was much richer than we had seen. Thus arose the idea.
Joel Coen: wrote the screenplay for True Grit much more attached to the Charles Portis novel after reading the book. It is a western, but one very different from the usual. To begin with, is told in first person by a woman, in this case, Mattie Ross, making it very interesting. And we wanted to astonish the story.
What was the reaction when they announced a remake?
EC: First, to persuade the world that is not a remake. Because it is not, is something quite different, there is a scene that looks like Wayne tape. After that, we found lot of enthusiasm from the studio and everything flowed.
JC: Now especially in Hollywood are remakes, that seems to be the trend, many people told us "oh, no, not you too!" and "how, a John Wayne movie! It's crazy ", but really, we have approached this story to tell otherwise. It is exciting and thought it would be great to tell it again.
What was the hardest to shoot? Are the locations, the casting?
EC: Rooster Cogburn To not think of another that was not Jeff. So, without further. In the book, Cogburn has about 40 years, but is a novel set in the late nineteenth century in the West. Men aged faster abroad. Wayne, in fact, had the same age as Jeff when he made the film. What was interesting was to find a suitable actress for Mattie. We did auditions in Texas, and we girls between twelve and sixteen. We gave the green light to find someone who was not well known or little experience, that was what we wanted and Hallie was ideal as vulnerable as a solid. It was a delight to work with.
JC: The locations are found in Santa Fe, in the same areas where John Ford was going to roll. It was surprising, but perfectly suited for what we needed. It was basically like having an adventure in the wild. Something we have never Indeed, indeed. It was a fun shoot.
much to be said No Country for Old Men was a western, and it definitely is. Why a movie of this genre?
JC: And why not? We grew up watching westerns on TV every evening when we were kids. It was a kind of habit, get home in the evening and tune in films of John Ford with John Wayne or Audie Murphy or Gary Cooper. There are many possible varieties of westerns, which we ever make one. When adapting the novel by Cormac McCarthy, we did it as a western, yes, but we felt like doing a more traditional. And here it is.
EC: was interesting too, because there are many nuances to this story, the characters are authentic anti-heroes, with a plethora of faults, but not that you stop loving them. It is a story about a very stubborn girl that does not stop at nothing to achieve their purpose and character is a difficult but ultimately endearing, like Cogburn, who at first seems a little old man bragging, but is far more that it is a character with heart ... and are not something that we deal with often, really, so I decided to do so, because it was something that definitely had not done before and wanted to prove that we could do.
You do not stop. How many projects are running at once? Have a rest sometimes?
EC: That we are a working machine is a false impression, the reality is that we're pretty loose. Is not it true?
JC: is true. I do not like working! (Laughs) The truth is that in the last three years we have released a film for more or less the same date, but if you look, previously we had taken two years without shooting.
EC: This is a time in which we are dedicated to writing scripts, to read, to have ideas. So we had a few films ready. So followed Burn out After Reading , A serious man and True Grit. That explains the speed with which we have been working on lately ... but now I want to take a while. Rest.
While you rest working more ... What they're up to?
JC: Many things! It is true that we are always thinking about things. There are some plans out there that might materialize. A couple of adaptations of novels, a comedy. Something with Fran (Frances MacDormand, his wife, who won an Oscar for Fargo ) ... we're always thinking about things.
EC: Frankly we're a couple of guys are lucky. Joel spoke a moment ago that grew up watching movies. It's true. We are very lucky that we are passionate about boys, continues to fascinate us even now, only now we are the ones we tell the stories.
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