Present Moscow his new creation movie “Lucy” Luc Besson decided to personally. The director was kind and cheerful and even playful set. Besson found that in Russian “Achilles’ heel” has nothing to do with the “Pieta” (Pieta – the iconography of the biblical story Lamentation of the Virgin Mary, where the dead Christ lies in the mother’s lap. Most famous: Michelangelo’s Pieta), Titian, Van Gogh ). And answered all questions relating to the strengths of women and work with them.
In particular, with Scarlett Johansson, who played in the film role of Lucy, a girl, leading dissolute lifestyle, turned into a superwoman because, that it in an absurd accident dissolved a pound of the drug of a new generation. Lucy superpowers are different from those inherent to the heroes of the comic book: while all people have the brain involved only 7%, Lucy activated 100%.
– In your films, the protagonists are often strong , tough, strong-willed woman. It is a tribute to feminism, or do you believe that the world is governed by strong women?
– Of course, women rule the world. In fact, very rare that women invented vivid images. So, my film “The Blue Lagoon” was about a friendship between two men, “The Last Stand” – about the friendship of three men. But there was a time when men always dominated. Think of films such as “Terminator,” where the hero, playing a mountain of muscle, says: Hasta la vista, baby, and the woman sits obediently by the fire and wait for a loved one with a mammoth mined them.
I’m interested in the topic of men and weaknesses strengths of women. Remember that even Achilles was a “heel” (Pieta How to drink? You heel and drink – the same thing? Ah heel, right)? What to say about the modern man. In fact, I’m trying to create interesting characters. Well, in “Leon”, “La Femme Nikita” and now “Lucy” I pay tribute to the “strong” the weaker sex.
– Milla Jovovich, Anne Parillaud, now Scarlett Johansson. Have you always shoot very bright women and stunning actresses, revealing absolutely amazing on their part. How do you choose your own music, and if they have something in common with your point of view?
– Let’s all in order. First, there is the scenario. In this scenario, there are different characters. And you need to find the best actors and actresses for these roles. Sometimes I meet the artists that I personally love, but I do not feel that they are ideally suited for the role in my film. Then I continue to search until I’m happy with my choice.
– Having limitless possibilities, Lucy could invent a perpetual motion machine, or stop wars, to establish contact with extraterrestrial civilizations of mankind. But you have chosen a very dramatic destiny for her. Does this mean that you believe that the development of intellectual abilities will certainly lead to a loss of humanity?
– And why did not God stop the war? For the same reasons, and Lucy does what he does. She understood and accepted – it is necessary to pass on life. It is the need to pass their knowledge on to future generations. You want to stop the war because your education drives you to it. But Lucy does not decide who is good and who is bad. It suffered its purpose, it is in the transmission of knowledge to people.
– When we have waited, we watched a film about the film. And I think that is important to you is not signed your name on the director’s chair, or the latest accessories for the shooting, but something else that we can not miss. Or you had to save because of the high fees stars?
- Of course, most of the budget has gone Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman. And to remove the chase scene on the machines, we had 4 days to block the center of Paris. It is very expensive. But it’s also a certain art. Yes, of course, you need a crane to remove some scenes. But I suddenly notice that you must primotat him a piece of wood so that it worked, as I see it. And sometimes you need an actress “pull” to the camera to show the desired reaction and I have to improvise. Constantly having to improvise.
This summer, “Lucy” was competing with such films as “The Guardians of the Galaxy” and “The Expendables.” I can say that we did not look worse than they are. And sometimes even better.
– It is known that during the making of the film you have consulted with scientists and experts in the study of the brain. How did they react to your ideas about how becoming a man whose brain is activated by 100%?
– Sometimes, when you’re talking to me, they were smiling, yes, you can say so, because remove, and sometimes flatly said “no.” I seemed to have offended their own notions. I had to remind them that “Lucy” – a feature film, where the mixed reality and fiction. But it was nice that scientists are willing to help me define the scope of its capabilities. In a plot conceived by four steps of transformation Lucy: self-control, to control others, to monitor and control the time of the substance. The first two points have not caused any complaints. But when it came to the third and fourth paragraphs, they lost, not knowing what to say.
The fact that the work of the scientist is that before to express the belief they have to prove his point . And then they had to work with our imagination, and they were lost, because they could not prove the details of the imaginary world. So that it is easier to say – this can not be. But it seems that they are shy of his words. Because, say, they know that love – a chemical reaction. But no one wants to admit that his life – a chain of chemical reactions.
– When a movie train rushes at great speed, explained in some detail the theory of relativity. Maybe you re-read his works before the shooting? By the way, how did you study in school?
– I’m a poor student. I do think that you ought to work, and then to learn – this makes more sense. For example, when you’re 11 years old, in your head trying to push the story – teachers talk about your past, the past of the country – and it does not matter to you, you are interested in something else entirely. The only year I did well when we were visited by a physics teacher, to do everything to motivate students. I could always hear only those who are well taught, the word deaf ear to the other. But I always wrote scripts all the school plays.
– Did you have a prototype or Lucy is a collective image?
– A few years ago, scientists found the remains of Lucy : it was a few million years. With the help of a computer program they recreated it – what it could be. I badly wanted to meet the man who created the Lucy to see her. As a result, he created me a copy. And now Lucy standing in my office, looking at me, when I work, inspires me. In particular, to create a modern Lucy.
– We know that you love dolphins. Can I say that after the movie “The Big Blue”, they inspired you to work on the “Lucy”? And how do you think the percentage should use your brain man?
– Today people are more concerned about where the consumer side of life, than that, just to be. It seems to me that we should pay more attention being. For instance, when some people have found that they are the hands, and they can build. And as soon as they began to build, they began to have a property. That is the moment of possession coincided with a certain anatomical feature. We – the only animals that have hands, but … what we have learned. Take dolphins, they use their own GPS, built into their brains. And their navigation system is much more advanced than all those that mankind has invented. Yes, we now also have a GPS. Interestingly, on the one hand, we were smart enough to think of it, on the other hand, these inventions make makes us stupid because we no longer rely on their knowledge.
– in the film are the words of that time – the only reality, as far as this question is concerned you personally?
– Lack of time – a huge problem, because our time on earth is limited. When we are born, we do know one thing – that we will die. The question is, how quickly death comes, I will arrange my time. But no one can give an answer to these questions, so it’s really a huge problem. Sometimes an hour seems like an eternity, but on the scale of eternity, and a million years – nothing. During the existence of the planet Earth humanity appeared and disappeared on her six times. So that the time – that’s all we have.
– Empower you ever your mind? And what inspired you while working on “Lucy”?
– I’ll be a good subject for experimentation, because I never did drugs, do not drink and do not smoke. I – an anomaly. When I was little, we lived in Croatia, Greece, Tunisia, because my parents were instructors diving. And I did not have toys that have other children. If I wanted to play with something, I had to come up with this “something”. And I took the sticks, stones, and come up with a game of cowboys in space aliens – so my imagination began to develop. I consider myself very lucky that I did not have the tools that replaced my imagination.
But even so, I do not work very fast: on the development of the concept of “Lucy” took me about ten years. I think I use myself only 2% of their brain.
– you shoot fantastic movies. What do you think, is there a future for humanity?
– Absolutely not. We have very little chance of survival. Unless we learn to make better use of our brains and learn to coexist peacefully, ceasing to destroy each other.
– Tell me about working with Scarlett Johansson. It is said that she had a great sense of humor.
– Scarlett very hardworking, punctual, sweet and, most importantly, adequate. She does not have star disease, and she did not pretentious. As for the sense of humor, I’m sorry, I was so fascinated by their own movie that did not have time to meet him.
– In “Lucy” open ending. Is it possible sequel?
– I am often asked about this, but I think I’ve said everything I wanted. So absolutely no idea what could be the next part. While not imagine.
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