Here are some more tidbids I read on german sites today:
1. SUBWAY interview: I am not going to translate the entire interview, just the bits I found interesting.
How easy is it for you to find such projects?Strangely, it has become very difficult to produce little films. A cheap project with a budget of under five million dollars is far more difficult to realize than a movie that is twice as expensive. That sounds pretty crazy, but that's the reality in Hollywood.
You were a candidate for "Spider-Man, " "Batman" and "Superman"- are you happy in retrospect that the commercial popcorn heroes passed you by?I have absolutely nothing against these movies. They have huge success, which is certainly due to the quality of the directors. For me the difference is always whether someone simply makes a very expensive film or a film that has a premonition. Entertainment also has an obligation: it must tell stories intelligent. Therefore, Duncan was the perfect director for the perfect big budget film.
How important is the balancing act between art and commerce to you?To me that is not important. (laughs) In the end it does not matter how big a project - as long as the story is right, a film also finds its audience. I had this experience with "Brokeback Mountain" as well as with "Donnie Darko" - which at the start broke no records, but in the long run, was highly successful.
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www.subway.de/filmtipps/interviews/?hnr=&tx_mfarticle_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=12655&cHash=903dc48ce8&hnr=283 2. FOCUS article That's how romantic the U.S. star was as a teenU.S. actor Jack Gyllenhaal had a very romantic streak as a teenager: In order to remain on the mind of his lady in the U.S. while an exchange student in France, he wanted to do something really special ...
In his new film there is little room for romance, contrary to his real life: The U.S. actor who became famous with "Brokeback Mountain" has had a very romantic side in high school. As the 30-year-old told magazine "TV movie" he fell in love head over heels to a girl in the U.S. just at the time of his departure to a student exchange in France. "When I traveled around France with my backpack, I picked a flower in every city and sent it to her, " says Gyllenhaal.
Even today, he is still friends with his former flame. "She has recently shown me all the flowers that I sent to her back then. That was something very special."
His science-fiction thriller "Source Code" will be released in Germany in early June, in the film he intends to prevent an attack.
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www.focus.de/panorama/vermischtes/jake-gyllenhaal-so-romantisch-war-der-us-star-als-teen_aid_631353.html 3. Monsters and Critics article This is rather long, so I highlight the parts I found cute or interesting (again you can tell that the writer was a woman).
There is no difference. Jake Gyllenhaal is not taller than you think, not smaller nor thicker. He looks exactly the same in reality than on the screen. Excatly as good that is. Abandoned by Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift, he descends from the fantasy world, sitting opposite one - just to rub his eyes. During the conversation, he will keep rubbin his face preferably the nose. Perhaps a flight reflex, if it is to answer questions about wars, his country leads against other nations. Which has little to do with the film. But Gyllenhaal plays a soldier in 'Source Code' (Start: 02.06.) after all.
Duncan Jones, who has impressed financiers all over the movie industrie with his debut 'Moon', shoot with him in the lead role. It can be seen as a meteoric rise for the director, because Jake Gyllenhaal is one of the biggest names in Hollywood.
This is because of 'Donnie Darko', ten years ago. And his shy appearance alongside Heath Ledger in 'Brokeback Mountain' (2005), the drama that is already movie history. Co-star Heath Ledger was his friend, Jake is the godfather of his daughter Matilda.
Gyllenhaal can do big and small films, from the muscle play in the epic 'Prince Of Persia' (2010) to the love story, that lives from small gestures, 'Love And Other Drugs' (2010).
In 'Source Code' he asks himself, as in 'Donnie Darko', what's going on. He is a soldier who is forced to be placed back into the body of a man. Eight minutes he has got to prevent a catastrophe, eight minutes before the train explodes. And so Jake has his own groundhog day on trips that are harmful to his health.
No, the shooting has probably not been comfortable, much less diverse: There are really only two locations, the train car and the dark room where the soldier is strapped and has to report back from his mission.
"But it's amazing how much you can make happen in so few places, right? " Jake Gyllenhaal laughs and looks around the room. "I was fascinated by the first eight minutes of the screenplay like I haven't been in a long time. And the rest was even better,"
he grins broadly like he's telling his buddies about a girl. "But actually," he says, "Duncan Jones was the reason I wanted to make this film."
That's a lot of understatement because Jake Gyllenhaal was on board before the director. And the proposal to Duncan Jones came from him, because he had just seen 'Moon' and was thrilled by David Bowie's son and his abilities as a director. He found it amazing to see an intimate play transferred to the cinema and still be just in the right place.
The shooting of 'Source Code' would have felt a bit like working on stage, and he also knows he was already successful doing that, including the London theater.
"There were certain rules in such a small space," he recalls from the shoot. "Everything had to happen very controlled, we had very little flexibility." Here and there, it seemed to him a little claustrophobic. But eventually as a child he sat in a box and pretended as if he were in a spaceship.
He laughs his innocent laughter that is usually found only on kids under the age of eleven, and you understand how Jake Gyllenhaal could have turned into Everybody's Darling.'Source Code' keeps developing into an action film in the course of the movie, and "No, there was no stuntman.", explains the lead actor. Before he says that he pretends to have to throw up.
"Then I must have done most of it myself," he grins. "
My mother has more trouble with that than I. She didn't like the movie." He corrects himself, before anyone can take notes. "She did like the movie, she just found it 'disturbing'." The producer and author Mrs. Naomi Foner is primarily a mother to her son and as such finds it irritating, that some of the spectacular scenes almost break his neck. In the second level, the film treats the separation of body and soul - and death.
He lectures briefly on the subject, lies a little, and tells stories about his research until he declared theatrically, that even he - sorry - does not know what happens after death. Then he smiles mischievously.Jake repeatedly experiences, in the body of someone else, the last eight minutes before his death. The obvious question is, what wouldhe rather do in that time: "There are people close to my heart more than those who are in this room," he apologizes. It would probably come down to contact with his family. His wish would be: "One last laugh. Buddha has always been laughing, and I like the idea, that feeling, to have a smile on your lips." But one doesn't have to die right away. So what is the best thing you can do in eight freely available minutes?
"Look at microwave popcorn." he shines and
turns right back into the little brother of Maggie Gyllenhaal, who probably can not even look over the table edge. Jake is in his element: "It's great how these little seeds turn into popcorn. I will never get bored with that, I could watch again and again."
As much as he likes to pretend to be a little boy, the 30-year-old is not a team player anymore. He carries a movie on his shoulders. "This is an honor," assures the man whose entire family works in the same industry. "If nobody would believe in you, you would not having this opportunity. And: honestly, it's not necessarily pressure, when there is a good script, and Duncan Jones is sitting at the control buttons. It does result more in a nice feeling because you walk around with a secret in your pants pocket, that nobody knows." Speaking of secrets:
His next project will be a very small production, he grins and disappears into the enchanted forest.Source:
www.monstersandcritics.de/artikel/201121/article_190665.php/Jake-Gyllenhaal-Der-Acht-Minuten-Mann?page=1I wonder if that project he takes about is EOW, because that didn't exactly strike me as a small production. Maybe he has something else planned too?
i hope
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