Levan Gabriadze with the help of producer Timur Bekmambetov took a picture of the US “Remove from friends”. This is a horror film (which is surprising given the past director, Rezo Gabriadze’s son and executor of one of the main roles in “Kin-Dza-Dza” Danelia). Its action takes place entirely on a desktop computer, which was an American high school student sitting pretty.
She chats on Skype with her boyfriend and friends, listening to music in iTunes, climbing on Facebook – in a word, cultural spends time.
The problems start when Skype comes to new, uninvited user to empty the avatar and meaningless name billie227 and represented the spirit of a girl, general familiar characters, committed suicide a year ago after it was published in a YouTube video, where she , napivshayasya at the party, appeared in a very indecent kind. Billie227 trying to bring his friends to clean water, to get them to tell each other all their dirty secrets. Their teenagers are not less than those of adults.
Filmed for mere pennies (the budget was a matter of thousands of dollars) Gabriadze film only in the American box office has collected around 30 million at the box office and the other countries (in particular, and Russia, where it will be released July 9) will certainly be noticed.
– Levan, you, of course, first and foremost known as a performer of the role of a young violinist in the “Kin-Dza-Dza”. How was your life after that?
– I assume in this film can not, because I notice all my mistakes. I did not like acting. Georgy Danelia about these errors did not tell me, but simply because he is good. Filming “Kin-Dza-Dza” were in the Karakum desert, for me – from the eighth to the ninth grade. It was terribly hot. Then I went to theater school, and then in the army, and then in the Georgian civil war broke out, and I went to America to study. I did computer graphics, I would find some craft, because the profession of the actor or director to me then seemed too complicated. And then with a light hand Timur Bekmambetov I began to shoot a commercial.
– You are so easy to say – “to go to America to study”.
– No, no, Of course, it was very difficult. I helped the parents, I learned, and the money earned by the fact that food prepared in restaurants.
– Georgian?
– No, Mexican. After graduation gradually started in computer graphics and design – making logos, graphics for trailers, movie trailers.
– After the movie “Freaks” with Keira Knightley and Milla Jovovich, you suddenly took off horror ‘ Remove from friends “, all of which is set on your computer.
– It was the idea of Timur Bekmambetov. He offered it to me – and he was also the producer of” frills. “At first I did not believe this idea – that it is possible to keep the viewer’s attention only desktop. But after reading the script and talking to Timur, I loved the idea. It’s about my life – it all takes place on the desktop.
– I also all life on it unfolds.
– But it was very unexpected. And at the same time, millions of high school students in the whole life of the computer, on Facebook, on the monitor.
– This is Apple – what looks like a product placement.
– What product placement? I exist on this computer, “Epple”. In Macintosh, here in this fictional world Jobs. Neither of which product placement and speech could not go. We needed a real desktop viewer to believe in the story. We decided that it is better to ask for forgiveness than permission. Neither Google, nor Facebook, nor Apple, Microsoft or did not know what we’re shooting this movie, we did everything at your own rick !. Fortunately, Universal Studios could then all settle.
No, no, nor about any product placement speech can not go, are you? We decided to get into this fight, and then the deal. Our task was to make a movie, which, roughly speaking, came to delight every spectator. And then – again, roughly speaking – could not care less. Thus all we were warned: “You never let out, no one will ever see this film.” But as you can see, we have removed and released.
– You filmed by theater basis. Have your young actors was exactly 82 minutes – they are in real time, in the same breath, played the whole story.
– Yes, one double. There is action, there is reaction to action, all built right into – live actors in a situation where no way to hide the error of acting. They still kept in close-ups, so that nothing zamaskiruesh installation. You see everything that is happening in the soul of Blair, the main character, and her friends. This is radically different from anything I’ve done in my life. This is a movie that can not be cut, it is impossible to mount only the entire drive with all the emotions and facial expressions. We shot it all one take twenty times in a row! And somewhere in the sixth time we have started to turn.
– Does your character in Skype nickname Billie227. What kind of name is that?
– We want to do everything as close as possible to the realities of the Internet. So often – just a popular name Billie too, such has always been busy, so people are added to the name of different figures. Why not 227?
– Do you believe in ghosts?
– (Suddenly thinks). Well, as you say. Yes and no. That is how, when I was alone in the room when I’m scared, yes, I believe.
– You have a beautiful girl in the lead role, Shelley Henning.
a representing in Georgia and discuss only her! No question that the Georgian filmmaker has made a film in America, I did not even mention. Everyone is talking only about the fact that Henning, Star TV series “cub” and “The Secret Circle”. He starred in a new role. She is incredibly popular with teens!
– Another motive of your film – that even after we die, we remain on the network.
– I happen very sad when I come across a page ahead of us friends – it brings back memories, arouses emotions. These accounts may continue to live their lives. These people left on the Internet trail that runs through the year and I know that every year the “dead accounts” is becoming more and more. I wish that I had the opportunity to decide the fate of your online heritage of its own, without relying on the vagaries of the network.
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