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Exclusive: The Fall - Tarsem's Visual Companion - Part 2
by Tarsem
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Tarsem:
There are so many locations in this film. Seventeen years I've been looking for these locations. It's a location scout's nightmare - or perhaps their dream. There was someone on the internet who wrote, "I would give my left nut to be Tarsem's location scout!" If you give it time you realise that all of these green screen shots or effects shots you do date very, very quickly. When you go ten years or fifteen years down the line, no matter how good it is everything will look like a bad videogame. Location shooting, I can guarantee you, it was never hip, but it will never date. If you buy it now you will love it more twenty five years from now and it's because everything is on location.

The trouble when you use beautiful images is that people don't realise you can sometimes be making a joke. They don't realise that it may look beautiful but it's idiosyncratic. That's a difficult one to tell people, and this is one of the more idiosyncratic moments in the film. People don't know if they're supposed to laugh. In fact for the whole film you're seducing people to think it's funny so that by the end bit, as soon as you're ready to laugh at it, it gets dark, so they don't know if they should be crying. Either you embrace it or you go, "Fuck off!"

But I'm saying that from the very beginning the storyteller is in front of you and he's trying to show you his manipulation. That's how I'm taking the license and I'm showing it to you through him. It's not passion or anything, it's manipulation and that's how pictures do it to you. And sometimes people are - correctly - offended by it.

These are all extras that he's standing on which we picked up there. The temperature here is 49 degrees centigrade while raining, so you can imagine how hot this is. It was cheaper for them to get extras to wear this horrendous Nuagahyde Leather thing - that was painted and smelling of toxic stuff - and make them still than it was to use dummies!

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tomwaitsjr
tomwaitsjr writes:
on Oct 06 2008 03:20 PM

It's one of the few films that I'd pay for in picture-book form. Stunning.

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dreamworks21
dreamworks21 writes:
on Oct 06 2008 04:53 PM

a great movie

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dahluzz
dahluzz writes:
on Oct 07 2008 07:04 AM

isn't it kind of stupid that he refers to himself by one name though? he's not as bad as catwoman director "pitof" or anything, but he's also no cher or madonna. you really have to earn single name status, and two mildly received films, however gorgeous they are, doesn't warrant that.

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peanutbrittle50
peanutbrittle50 writes:
on Oct 13 2008 06:50 AM

Isn't his name Tarsem Singh, or did he ditch the Singh?

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PETER C.
PETER C. writes:
on Jul 18 2009 08:21 AM

after watching this moview I was curious to read what the critics have said.
Many thought is was visually interesting but otherwise empty of content.
While there are some problems with contruction of the film which can leave the viewer confused, I thought it was an original and creative effort aimed at capturing the power of the imagination and how our life stories are not just our own, but interwoven with others as well. The little girl Alexandria was convincing and her relationship with Ron was what enabled him to turn himself around. The weakest part of the film was the scene where he is being held down by his enemy (a part of himself) and chose to fight back.
Too bad. But otherwise I think the film should be getting more attention.


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