Danny, it will if we describe Steve Jobs as the “suite” of The Social Network ?
Totally! They said: “Above all, do not you speak of The Social Network during the promo. “But hey, it’s complicated anyway … Because Steve Jobs is episode 2! Besides, in my opinion, Sorkin will write a third component one day. And I’m really proud to be part of a trilogy initiated by Fincher . I could have refused, for fear of being compared to him. On the contrary, it suits me very well. The Social Network is a great movie.
How do we react as a filmmaker when you find a script Sorkin? It’s intimidating?
That’s the word, yeah. Be aware that a normal script is 120 pages, maximum. A mixture of descriptions and dialogues. Sorkin pat on 180 pages, blackened from first to last as long dialogues arm. Without any indication. Besides, in this case, the fact that the film was cut into three acts. Three scenes, six characters, all in real time. “Inside Day” and bla bla bla bla … In the beginning it is anxiety. You say to yourself: “This is a jail, I will not be able to do. “But in fact, the opposite is true. It’s an invitation. A provocation. Something incredibly liberating. A framework in which everything becomes possible for the actors as for the director. Of all my films it is the “staged”. The foundations of the stage must be very strong. Because without these, it would become just a play. A great room. But a room
Aaron Sorkin. “A biopic is at best a fictionalized version of a Wikipedia page”
What is the matter of more complicated with his dialogues: the pace? direction ? the combination of both?
‘s all about rhythm. It is first the problem of the actors. Some fail to tell the Sorkin is above their strength, they do not chopent the trick. But once you understand how it should sound, then the meaning emerges. Besides, when you look at the dialogues in detail, they are not so eloquent. Well, certainly, nobody speaks well in real life, but it is not as sophisticated than we think. It is the rhythm, pace, tempo, how the flow of thought is made, which make it all truly exceptional.
This refers to the golden age of American cinema …
Yes, the screwball comedy. Nobody writes this way today, except perhaps the Coen. It is a pure film language.
The emblem of Sorkin style, the walk and talk . A thought in motion. Besides, on the first page of the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, we learn that Jobs loved to walk and talk …
Yes, and the great thing of The Social Network is just that the characters were sitting all the time! (Laughter.) Do you realize? yet sometimes Fincher is described as a “clipper”, but in fact it is the classic filmmaker of our time. Look good camera movements in The Social Network : very rare, very efficient. And when a person gets up, it’s like a thunderclap!
Steve Jobs , the characters are rarely sitting …
Yes, reading the script, I immediately felt the need to put them back up. It is the standing-up movie. Does it mean that they had to walk all the time? No. But the camera, she is in constant motion. Early in the film, Jobs was young, he wants to change the world, it does not in place, then the camera follows him everywhere. Much has used the steadicam that gives great freedom to the actors. The whole film is a mixture of freedom and discipline.
You’ve watched the series that have established the Sorkin style on TV? The West Wing , for example?
No. Only extracts. I am especially interested filmmakers. Fincher. Not to copy, just to take over peacefully. But The West Wing , it lasts … What? Sixty hours?
more than that … You finish
“sorkinisé”! That is the risk. Actors and felt it. At the end of the day, they put themselves talking like him. It takes the power out of your system back to normal life!
Fincher had expressed concern about the difficulty of such a film marketer. It seemed surprising from someone who has managed to turn a film about Facebook cardboard, but … How do you failure Steve Jobs in the United States?
I do not know … Maybe we overestimated the interest that people relate to this man. Perhaps it has not sold very well the film either. It has been too big, too fast, coming in too many rooms at once. This is a very demanding film, he would have benefited from better “explained” to the public. David Fincher is very gifted on these issues. And there, again, he was right.
Steve Jobs Danny Boyle Michael Fassbender , Kate Winslet , Jeff Daniels , Seth Rogen comes out Feb. 3 in theaters.
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