RussellのRHインタビュー

昔のものを引っ張り出してきました。
DVD/Blue-Rayが出たときのやつです。
保護のためにコピペをたたんでおきます。

MMばかりのインタビューを集めていたから
Russellの語るMMというのをまるで失念しておりました。
（あれ、RussがAlanについてhitfixで語った動画紹介しましたっけ？）
日本公開から日本でのDVD発売までまたしばらくは時間があるはずなので、
12月からはRussellのインタビューを中心に回りたいと思います。
（DVD出る頃には２の行方も確定するでしょう。
　しかし作る予定って本当ですか？　日本の興行如何だよね？）
意外と……意外と質問に出てくるのですよね、MMについて。
持ってきたのはたまたま見た記事ですが、核心ではあると思います。
音楽的なものを持つ必要があった、と説明する。なぜか。
戦場で今日を生き抜けたことをお祝いするため。明日もまたがんばるため。
的を射ている。


以降情報は
Russell Crowe News
Murphs Place
主にこちらのサイトからお借りする予定です。

Robin Hood: Directors Cut Edition is out on DVD & Blu-ray September 20. Here's what the star, Russell Crowe had to say about making the movie.

There was a very intimate feeling in the film – like you were really there. Was that something to do with the way Ridley made the film?

Russell Crowe: Ridley shoots in such a way that he doesn’t impact the actors. He matrixes a room or a field and he uses multiple cameras – everybody is playing at the same time. He doesn’t shoot one half then turn around and shoot the other half. He tries to shoot the world as it exists which means you get great responses.

Oscar [who plays King John] was saying there is even room to ad lib a bit.

Russell Crowe: Ridley is all about great ideas. There were things in the earlier drafts that were very attractive to Oscar Issac and he came to me and talked about them. I told him that Ridley is not going to stop you from doing something great. That’s what I told Oscar, that he is that rare beast who actually loves actors. He is in awe of the bravery of actors. If you are prepared to go to a certain place on his behalf than you will only get appreciation from Ridley.

The Robin Hood story has been told many times. Were you interested in the role as an actor because you could show how the character developed?

Russell Crowe: There are a lot of questions in pretty much every cinematic Robin Hood that never get answered. The filmmakers take it for granted that you know a certain amount about the story and they go from there. We weren’t really interested in what people think they know about Robin Hood. We wanted to wipe the slate clean and start again.

You were instrumental in a lot of the casting. Did you know all the Merry Men before the film?

Russell Crowe: My core thing is that I’ve worked with them and I know who they are. I’ve been in pressurised situations with them and I know how they cope. That was my attitude when I talked to Ridley. You can throw all the A list names at me that you want but I’m not interested, I’m interested in a team.

I’m interested in guys who will take on a physical challenge and spend whatever time is required.

I also need all the Merry Men to have a musical background and Ridley is like ‘Why?’ My thing was if you spend time in the army as these men do, if you are on this battlefield of brutality, then you have to know how to celebrate. If you have made it through that day without an arrow through a part of your body dipped in horse urine - because it poisons your blood and you die - or cleaved in two by some knight in armour on horseback. If you get to the end of the day then you have to know how to celebrate and then get ready to do it again the next day.

This is a film everyone can watch as violence is not too extreme – was that deliberate?

Russell Crowe: Deliberate on Ridley’s behalf and something we discussed. It would be very easy for him to revisit the same territory as Gladiator and severe heads and limbs here and there, but ultimately there is such a strong moral core to this story that you want kids to be able to see it.