Billy wilder speaks torrent

Wilder and the interviewer go back and forth between German and English - depending upon what language best expresses the points they wish to make - with helpful subtitles for those of us who speak English when either speaks German.

Wilder says some things that don't surprise me - for example that Jack Lemmon was the definition of a professional. Wilder would not have used him so much and Lemmon would not have been such a great performer had that not been the case. However, Wilder's insights into Marilyn Monroe were new to me. He said while making "Some Like it Hot" that sometimes they would spend all day trying to get one take in which Marilyn had just one line, to the point where he wanted to pin the line to the wall so she could just read it.

Other days she would come in and have pages of dialogue memorized. He also had some interesting things to say about making films on the Holocaust immediately after the war and the impact they had on German audiences at the time.

At any rate, this dry run turned out to be so good that it became the actual interview. I highly recommend it to people who are interested in Billy Wilder's career, since it is almost entirely Billy Wilder talking about the projects he worked on, his philosophies of filmmaking, and the people with which he worked.

It's a fascinating documentary. AlsExGal Jan 8, Details Edit. Release date June 22, United States. Germany United States. German English. Billy Wilder habla. Bioskop Film Volker Schlondorff. He's never still. He never WAS still. The guy was in his mids during these half dozen interviews with Schlondorff and he's constantly gesturing, twisting his head around, blinking, scratching his back, fiddling with some object like a pair of eyeglasses.

When he was working he stalked around waving a walking stick, a very animated gnome. I'm not sure that anyone who is already familiar with his work will find out much new in these talks. There is the story of Marilyn Monroe unable to remember her single line -- "Where's that bourbon? After some sixty takes of the scene, Wilder drew her aside and asked why there was a problem. Monroe: "What problem? He's not mean about anyone he's worked with.

As he tells Schlondorff, his philosophy is that you're not married to someone you happen to be working with. The arrangement lasts only a few months. He's great on anecdotes but seems to have told them so often that he's no longer excited or amused by them. At any rate, he doesn't laugh at them any more. And he tells them in a rushed tempo, sometimes in English, sometimes in German, and sometimes in a macaronic mixture of both, in a voice so studded with hesitations and stuttering that it's sometimes a little difficult to follow him in either language.

His metaphors are grounded in everyday experience. To Wilder, a successful movie should sweep the audience up, hold them in a choke around the neck, and never let them be reminded that they're just watching a movie. God forbid he should ever come up with a hoity-toity expression like "the suspension of disbelief" or "the epoche of the common man. Oscar-winning filmmaker and screenwriter Billy Wilder is interviewed in , speaking rapidly in both English and German, touching on his perception of life through the camera lens via his childhood in war-torn Europe.

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