CARBON 14. "FINAL TEST? FIND Dragons: Interviews with Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott and Roland Joffé
original title: There
Be Dragons
Production year: 2010
Country: Argentina, USA, Spain
Address: Roland Joffé
Cast: Charlie Cox , Wes Bentley, Dougray Scott, Unax Ugalde, Ana Torrent, Rodrigo Santoro, Olga Kurylenko, Jordi Molla, Geraldine Chaplin, Alfonso Bassave, Derek Jacobi
Writer: Roland Joffe
Music: Stephen Warbeck
Photography: Gabriel Beristain
distributing in Film: Aurum
Duration: 112 min.
Gender: Biographical, Drama, Epic
in Spain Release Date: March 25, 2011
During his visit to Madrid to promote the film "You'll find Dragons' Maria Dolores Valdes, Director of Participation and External Relations CinemaNet, he interviewed two of its players (Wes Bentley and Dougray Scott) and its director (Roland Joffe). Unfortunately, time is something that happens very quickly, due to a technical problem with the recording is ended too soon, much sooner than expected, so the first interview was so short and so many questions were left in the inkwell. Anyway thank you very much from all who CinemaNet made it possible and the interviewees for their kindness.
WES BENTLEY (Manolo) and Dougray Scott (Robert)
The film is you father and son, how have gotten into the paper when their ages are similar or almost changed?
(Much laughter from both)
Dougray Scott:
Well, obviously the makeup and the physical presence of Manolo was a very successful thing and helped me as an actor to have the feeling to be working with a person actually higher. And of course the great talent of Wes and the way they expressed this talent for characterization helped me a lot, and seeing it my own father.
Wes Bentley: All the work we did together, the trials were too deep and then did a great job Dougray characterization own character so that when we were together I could see all the frustration and the pain he felt for his father.
The family is important in the evolution of two characters, both have problems with his father in childhood and lack the warmth of family. How did you see this in the movie? And in real life?
Wes Bentley: I in that regard for my life, I had a childhood very supportive family and a very closely with the family, therefore I can not identify with the character of Manolo and children he had. In my study of the character that I realized that
from children without a family affection or with little family support in any case, it sowed the seeds of its bitterness, isolation and may be unable to understand family relationships .
Dougray Scott: When I was born my father was a little older, was 51 years, and my character of Robert is not identified in that area so with my own life because my father was very
always present, was very affectionate and always felt a great love for him.
When it occurs in an acting career that runs your personal experience to implement it in a character that you play, then appeal to the imagination, reading or testimony from others that allow you to enter the situation and what the character requires. The film raises several moral values, such as guilt, forgiveness, love ... Which do you think the best defined?
Wes Bentley: There are many values \u200b\u200bpresent in the film, and film is very well done, over what would be an ideological or political film.
highlights the importance of recognizing their own mistakes and forgiveness and reconciliation, that are more important than politics or ideology.
Dougray Scott: (smiles at the lack of time and finally answers) I think the same.
Roland Joffe: "This movie made me better understand the role of religion in society"
Have you encountered problems when making this film about the controversy that St. Josemaría may raise ? Have you had complete freedom to do it?
Roland Joffé: Well, it's difficult to make any movie but if you mean the controversy may be by St. Josemaria for his life for his family ... it was not difficult, it was interesting.
A controversial saint would not be interesting, holiness itself already implies a controversy because it goes against the norm, are things he has done a human being with others can agree or not
. So I think it has been quite liberating. The film is very much the theme of forgiveness and also the blame, as was the case in the Mission, a visual scene with Robert De Niro literally carrying with it, until someone short. Forgiving yourself can be tricky ... how is this reflected in the tape?
Roland Joffé: Well, ask for forgiveness is an act of major developments, I know of primates are able to forgive, but we all know to ask for forgiveness is very difficult, at least in my experience. It is much easier to embrace my anger, my anger, to admit that I'm human, so are they, and have made mistakes and forgive them.
But if I can not forgive then I can not have freedom, and freedom is very important for humans , so the issue of forgiveness is really important. Especially in Spain, but also elsewhere, the need to forgive, to have a reconciliation, forgiving but not forgetting.
I guess you could ask this question, I do not know what the answer: "At this time, when many years ago that ended the civil war, must be divided in this way by clinging to this division, wanting to deny that in the other side was humanity? Or do we realize that it is illogical and understand that we see war as something organic that was experienced and lived by human beings? Some behaved better, others worse, some were great acts of mercy and other pain, but they were always human. remember seeing a documentary on CNN with a woman from Rwanda, Tutsi or Hutu, which called for five children in the conflict and was being interviewed by a CNN journalist blonde who commented that this woman had lost their sons in the war, and that the man before him was the same who had killed her five children. And I thought the same: How can it be? How is it possible? And the interviewer said, how can you do this, how can you forgive the man who killed your children? And this woman just looked at the camera and said: "My sons are dead and I am dedicated to life, this man shows remorse every time he comes. I do not forget the death of my children, but that death forces me to move on with my life, not lose it. And not forgive ... what I'm adding? How can I improve the world if not forgive? "
Forgiveness is a way forward can not be done in a frivolous way, but that does not mean you can not do.
Is this one of the things that attracted you to the figure of Saint Josemaría? "Christianity in general?
Roland Joffé: Yes, the concept of forgiveness is a wonderful concept. And one that attracts me, it can be a little strange is the imperfection of human beings.
The illustration was a wonderful thing in the eighteenth century, we are liberated from religious superstition, change autocratic position of the church, get rid of the idea of \u200b\u200boriginal sin comes a wonderful concept that is the 'noble savage. " We said that was a perfect human being who was destroyed by society. And that free, but in turn has a big problem if we're not careful. Because if we assume that human beings were perfect, but society made them astray, what about those who are not perfect?
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Before, when we see people, say they are wrong because they are of the wrong religion, or who are scum ... but if we think of the idea that no human being is perfect and in fact being "human" means not be perfect because our vision of imperfection will change ... so the idea of \u200b\u200boriginal sin is not such a bad idea is actually very liberating. We can see a human being and say, yes, you can be jealous and do this or that and say ... well, I try to avoid what you can and you too ... I think that's healthy. Leads to a better understanding of human beings and ourselves. The idea is that in Christianity that's very healthy and worth restoring the concept.
At this point you can confuse the concept of tolerance with love ...
Roland Joffé: Yes, of course. Love is the most sublime there. You have the chain of animals and we got to the top because we are social animals and animals they love. There is also a big problem with that, and that is if we are animals who love ...
what happens when there is absence of love? That's hard, it's complicated.
To give an example, my father left us too soon, when I was 8, my mother died and there was nobody to love me for being me. seemed to be an accident 8 years ... and at that age I became an existentialist without realizing it. was me against the world and is a somewhat lonely, does not make sense because I am part of world, but it takes a long time to relearn it, rediscover the love when you lose a child. Therefore we understand the importance and significance of their absence and the destruction it can cause.
to end ... I found Dragon to make the film?
Roland Joffé: Yes, Oh yes, of course! Always, constantly encounter dragons, there is a mass of dragons everywhere. (Smiles)
I think one of the worst dragon is feeling better than others: prejudice.
are very attractive, because it is so you do not like other people or what they do, but make you feel better, you feel superior to them ... you say well, I know more, I'm fine ... and that's not right. What we like to feel better, but there is another way to get that feeling without prejudice, so this film has taught me to better understand the role of religion in society.