“Remove from friends” – the most successful producer Timur Bekmambetov project in the history of his company “Bazelevs.” The painting, which cost $ 1 million, gathered at the US box office $ 32 million. In other areas, this is an English-language project also unsuccessfully – at this point in the movie piggy bank $ 14 million from non-US rental.
“Remove from friends” – the English-language horror, all of which takes place on the computer screen. In the chat, in which five teenagers communicate, added an unknown user. He accuses the students that are driven to suicide of a classmate Laura, since the death of which expired one year. Ostensibly teenagers posted on the Facebook scandalous video with Laura, and then she decided that both the video and it can not exist in this world.
The entire film – a series of mysterious deaths chat participants, who came under the hot hand vengeful ghost . Story stilted, unconvincing characters and amazing transformation pictures in ponderous morality play in the final will not prevent her from becoming for a time a trendsetter in the genre of horror, going through hard times and is constantly looking for new form. Through resourcefulness command “Remove from friends”, this form is found – a closer look at the monitor of personal gadgets, which expands to the size of theatrical screen. Ultimately, the “Remove from friends” – is not so much a movie as a fascinating experiment, reported on the wide possibilities of modern technology.
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The fact that these features can both fascinate and frighten the “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” said the director of “Remove from friends” Leo Gabriadze.
Your debut film “Freaks” was a comedy, now made a film of horrors – in many ways the polar genres. How come?
Leo Gabriadze: I do not like the movie as much as a director, but as a spectator. That is, I like to come to the theater, sit down in my chair and a half hours to forget all about everything. Alas, not many movies nowadays can capture me so that this expression about “forget everything” has ceased to be just a figure of speech. And I began to notice more and more that, for example, the same comedy to me is no longer valid – I do not go to watch them in the cinema. I like something witty to the screen addressed questions of life and death. In fact, it has to “frills” happened, but it happened that I grew up in a comedic environment, a lot of work in this genre in advertising, he was close to me. And then, three years later, Timur (Bekmambetov – Ed.) Gave me the script read “Remove from friends”. It was a chance to finally realize what I like. Not in the sense that I was asleep and I saw how I could make a horror film. But this project allowed to express themselves on this extremely topical meadow with little risk, because the horror – a rather low-budget genre.
The film “Remove from friends” visible rich pedigree of those pictures in which you are to some extent something borrowed. What do you announce the name?
Leo Gabridze: Borrowing in this case – not theft, and the rules of the game, it’s a genre film. I probably will not be original if I say that we were inspired by the “Blair Witch Project” – for zhanroobrazuyuschey found footage film (“found the film” mockumentary horror genre – Red. ) In some As in our minds it was “Paranormal Activity.” And there is another film that has no relation to the horror, but in which the director first came up with the screen divided into four parts and each placed a single character with its history – is “Time Code” by Michael Figgis.
Ultimately, it is not so much a movie as fascinating experiment
But for all that you have done in the form of an extremely fashionable fashioned by its promise of a film – a classic morality that blurts in the forehead in the final. This is why you needed to?
Leo Gabriadze: I do not think it is old-fashioned. In fact, we did not want to bump into moralizing, so try different options for the finals – in the US at the box office the film visited the other ending. However, despite the success, we thought that the American version looks somehow broken. That viewers still need some kind of resolution that he had a feeling that it is something taken out of the theater. So here you can see the allusion to such moralistic horror movies like “I Know What You Did Last Summer”.
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In the course of watching a movie attentive viewer may notice that the “Remove from friends” for you to become a fascinating formal exercise in during which you need to show action and suspense scenes where they appear to be impossible in principle – in a group chat on the Internet, where we see only the talking heads.
Leo Gabriadze : This was our goal – to show that life in the internet to inflame no different from the usual reality. Filming this movie was, of course, it is difficult – and over some of the “formal” problems you are talking about, I had to think seriously. But this film we show the viewer that fade mouse over the “Send” button can be just as exciting element like a gun pointed at his temple to the main character in the action-movie.
The move to the plot All action which is held within chat, do you think is viable, or is the story of a one-time success?
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Leo Gabriadze: Movies always tells stories about the conflict of human relations. And if our relationship suddenly took a form that we are dealing with a number of means of a computer monitor, while hundreds of kilometers away from each other, the filmmakers can not go past this. This new space for research of our souls. It is an opportunity, by the way, not only to remove the horror film, but a comedy – I know that scenario comedies, action which does not go beyond video chat, already exist and are preparing for the film adaptation. And over time, our gadgets, and behind them, and chats will be further improved, and one day we will wake up in a world that is described in the novels by Isaac Asimov.
you most admire such a prospect, or scare you?
Leo Gabriadze: I actually started out as a specialist in computer graphics, this is why in 1990 I had a computer on which I have worked professionally. Of course, I love the whole story with the scientific and technical progress. But the other side of technology scares me. I registered in many social networks, all read, but the secretive nature of the photos do not spread and do not tell that eat and where to go to rest. The idea of the digital traces that will remain after us our descendants, stirs – a wealth of information hidden under the passwords will be after us. Do we want to have this information when suddenly became available? After all, despite the apparent openness of today’s users of social networks, people tend to spread in public access only sunny side of your life. But inevitably there is another side to their digital footprint. It horrifies me the idea that someone can gain access to such data. Call me paranoid, but despite all my admiration for high-tech eye webcam on my laptop I always keep sealed.
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