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12-29-2003, 10:31 AM
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[img]http://www.snitchseeker.com/images/news/alfonso_cuaron_80.jpg' align='middle'> Inheriting Hogwarts - Summary:
Inheriting Hogwarts Article: Inheriting Hogwarts
British movie magazine Empire Online recently published an excellent interview with PoA director Alfonso Cuaron. After flirting with Hollywood for his film versions of Great Expectations and The Little Princess, Mexican-born Alfonso Cuaron returned to his homeland last year to make a small-budget labour of love about two randy teenagers, one confused woman and a country, all on a trip to find their identities. The result, Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too), smashed box office records at home in Mexico, took over $13 million in America and became the biggest ever Spanish language hit in Britain while also arguably landing him the not small undertaking of Harry Potter 3. On the release of this fantastic film on DVD, Empire Online grabbed him before he goes into production on Prisoner of Azkaban to talk sex, Harry and Hollywood
Collaborating with Jo Rowling for Harry Potter is super cool, a great creative ally
How do you cope with the difference in artistic control when you make your own films in Mexico like Y Tu Mama Tambien and then a huge Hollywood film like the upcoming Harry Potter 3?
Well, it's just two completely different scenarios but ultimately the creative process is exactly the same. And collaborating with Jo Rowling for Harry Potter is super cool, a great creative ally. I think we have a great connection creatively. I feel very good about it. But I think it's very wrong that people think Hollywood is the destination of a filmmaker. That bothers me a lot. If Hollywood were a destination for filmmakers, oh my god, we wouldn't have the people who actually create the new forms, the new languages of how people tell stories. For me, Hollywood is part of a journey and not a destination. But when people talk about Hollywood as the only maker of cinema it bothers me a lot. It is the big centre of the world cinema business but that has nothing to do with art or with cinema.
Do you think you can do both - create both art and do business in Hollywood?
Well, yes, there are some amazing examples. Every year I think some of the best movies come out of the Hollywood structure. I'm talking about people like the Coen brothers, Woody Allen and Scorsese.
Why do you think Y Tu Mama Tambien was such a success in other countries?
Well, I think the story is very universal. The colour of the story is very specific but the theme is very universal. Ultimately, it's all about identity and that's a human process that's not confined to different countries. And I think good cinema is that which transcends the unique scenarios and connects with the human experience.
Are you enjoying relocating to Britain for the shooting of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban?
I've always liked London and spent long periods here but never quite as long as this. I'm just having a blast working on this film and collaborating with everyone and walking around London everyday.
Is Pottermania as big in Mexico as it is here?
Well, the books are so huge all over the world. When I came here some time ago, my niece asked me to get her the most recent book. She's so happy I'm doing the film.
Sex in Harry Potter? It's going to be steamy...magical.
Did you set out to make the sex scenes so uncompromising in Y Tu Mama and will any of this lust make an appearance along with Harry Potter's first crush in The Prisoner of Azkaban?
[laughing] Sex in Harry Potter? [in a quiet whisper] It's going to be steamy… magical. We'll have digital effects too! But no, we didn't make it a priority to be uncompromising in Y Tu Mama. We just wanted to be honest.
The ease and chemistry between the two leads, Gabriel Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, in Y Tu Mama is remarkable. Was the action all improvised, as it seems?
That's a testament to the actors because actually everything 95% you see in the film was completely planned and written. The boys also know each other since they were babies, so there's a really natural connection there. What was brilliant that they recognised in the script something that was so close to them and emotionally they exposed themselves a lot.
There's a fun about the teen years that’s undeniable. Whoever tries to deny that, they probably never got laid!
Do you think any of your own teenage life made its way into the film?
I'm sure, a lot of it. It's very, very autobiographical but in an emotional way rather than in terms of anecdotes. A lot, a lot, a lot of references were included because it was fun for us to put them in. There was stuff like me and my brother went to a wedding in exactly the same place as the wedding in the film takes place. The President was there and everyone just wanted to kiss bottom with the President and didn't care at all for the newlyweds. And the nanny in the film is actually our real nanny…
Did she bring you cheese sandwiches like in the film?!
Well, I'm embarassed to say yes! But we are also very different from Julio and Tenoch!
What inspired the story of Y Tu Mama and how did the movie progress?
The storyline first came to me and my brother in the last 80s. I was talking with Emmanuel Lubezki, my cinematographer, about a low budget film and he said what about a story of a couple of friends who go to a beach. And I took that story and talked about it with my brother, Carlo. But whichever approach we were taking, it started to smell like an American teen movie. And so we left it behind and ended up writing something that would end up being my first film. So once in a while over the years, we would talk about Y Tu Mama and add new elements to the storyline but never in written form- maybe notes on napkins. It was not until a couple of years ago that we got together and decided that context was as important as character. And that was the point of departure. That's where the narrator in the film came in. Through that we could get the whole thing about the teenage years. There's a fun about the teen years that’s undeniable. Whoever tries to deny that, they probably never got laid! But there's also terrible angst - I would never go back to that period of my life. It was terrible. With the narrator, you can then discover how life can be terrible around you, but the pain of life doesn't take away from the beauty of life. And you also get more about the context, what the film was all about. It was about these two characters trying to find their identity, this woman trying to find her identity as a liberated woman and also this country trying to find its identity as an adult country.
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'Y Tu Mama Tambien' es muy interesante. Me gusta el director Alfonso Cuaron.
Anyway....yeah, I really liked 'Y Tu Mama Tambien', and I'm sure his work on PoA is going to be just as great, if not better! I'm really glad he was asked to do PoA.
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Can't wait to see the movie. He sounds convincing.
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12-29-2003, 04:44 PM
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ha, sounds very interestin. of course i cant wait till its out!!!
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Yeah. I'm hoping they do a Thursday Midnite showing. I will definitely be there!!! I think this director is great. I mean looking at the trailor and the pictures it looks awesome!
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Yeah..I think he's already doing a great job on PoA. Can't wait :sorcerer:
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I just cant wait untill the movie comes out..
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12-29-2003, 11:26 PM
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PoA will be interesting... :wub:
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I'm curious to see how the film turns out, but it seems like things are going great.  So I'm not worried. Yet.  | |
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12-30-2003, 02:33 AM
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I love seeing the movies opening night because everyone from toddlers to Grannies dress up in wizarding attire. It so much fun!!!
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He is a great director for PoA,I insist,I wanna see the movie now!!! :sorcerer:
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 of course he is the best! he is from my country! we are compatriots!!! he is sooo cool! go alfonso! Oh I Cant Wait! Do you think that might be a premiere here in Mexico? or an additional anyway......i hope so! it will be just great!
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hehe we will see.
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Quote: Originally posted by ~Hermy~@Dec 30 2003, 03:02 AM of course he is the best! he is from my country! we are compatriots!!! he is sooo cool! go alfonso! Oh I Cant Wait! Do you think that might be a premiere here in Mexico? or an additional anyway......i hope so! it will be just great! Possibly, but only for his Mexican buddies/relatives/co-workers.
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seems a cool dude
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12-30-2003, 01:56 PM
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All i can say is InterEsTinG! cool man!
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I can't wait either...every time I hear the theme music for Harry Potter (the whistle..dum dum, dee dum dum, dee dum, dum thing hah) I get tingles down my spine. The third one looks like its going to b eawesome!  | |
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The trailer lookz reallllly cool
The sex part confused me since there is no cho chang in PoA :online2long:
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sounds like it will be great, he osunds like a very artistic adn genius guy, cant waitttt
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I'v heard sooo many rumors about what he is doing, some sites say he will be even better than Chris, and some sites say that he is even abusing the kids on the set, but that sounds allot like a stupid rumor to me, so Im not going to belive ANYHTHING untill I see the movie for myself, I hope its awesome!!
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He sounds like an artistic genius! :whisle: Anyways, can't wait 'til PoA comes out. It's gonna be awesome, I know it!  <---I really like this monkey
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I can't wait till the movie comes out, on June 4th 2001 was the day I found my mom after 8 years of not talking to her. Now every year on June 4 we do something together. This year we are going to see the Harry Potter movie. I can't wait. It's going to be so much fun. | |
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