Third type dating: 5 things to know about the classic of Spielberg
Back on one of Steven Spielberg’s most beautiful films, which returns this Friday on television.
Third -type dating This evening will come back to France 5, followed by a documentary on its director with a nice title: Where has left and? Childhood according to Spielberg. While waiting for news New UFO film filmmaker …
Almost five decades after its release, it is always one of the most important works in the filmography of Steven Spielbergwhich surrounded itself with the best for this disproportionate project: Vilmos Zigmund in photography, John Williams at the soundtrack and Douglas Trumbull (2001: The Odyssey of Space) special effects. Without forgetting the casting that brings together Richard Dreyfuss and François Truffaut.
When it was released, the filmmaker had delivered a long interview in First. Small best-of, to wait until 9:05 p.m.
Spielberg refused Schrader to be credited
Third -type dating is initially a scenario of Paul Schrader, a cador of the genre to whom we owe in particular Driver taxi. However, his work did not impress Spielberg, quite the contrary.
“”Without being insulting for Paul (Schrader), I don’t know if we could call it a scenario!“, Speed Spielberg to first in 1986.”Paul, for his part, and without me getting involved at all, had indeed written a text entitled “Skywatch” or something like that … It was the story of a police officer, very Catholic, who made his farewell to life and his friends, convinced that he was going to be, one day, removed by a UFO and taken into space … There were two fifty pages that held more than the novel. I did not want it and these pages really have no resemblance to my work on Meetings …
This scenario of Paul Schrader was also different, if you want, as Body fever de Lawrence Kasdan can be Star War by George Lucas! So I was surprised when Paul demanded to be credited in the credits as a screenwriter and that he called on the writers guild to obtain it. But the guild which read our two scenarios did not retain its complaint and granted me, to me alone, the credit of screenwriter. It made me extremely happy because in the disputes between writers and directors, it is not always so frequent.“”
Spielberg had a hard time closing the scenario
Consequence of the disagreement with Schrader, Spielberg found himself alone in writing the film, which was for him the most complicated part of the project:
“”The writing of the script was the most trying thing, because I wrote it alone and that I am not used to it. I prefer to work with someone who sends me the ball, with whom it is stimulating to exchange ideas, to confront your own ideas … I wrote Dating… Alone, five nights a week, from midnight to six in the morning, for almost a year. I wrote, written, rewritten, rewrite again …“”
Spielberg did not dare to contact Truffaut
The famous director François Truffaut embodies Claude Lacombe, a French scientist, in Third -type datingbut he almost never appeared in the film because Spielberg was convinced that he would have a refusal!
“”In fact I had written the role for Truffaut but I was sure he would say no … without even giving him a chance to tell me. I was so convinced that I offered the role to Lino Ventura, Yves Montand … through their agents, without meeting them. Then I met Depardieu, Philippe Noiret, Michel Piccoli. I still asked a phone number his phone number. He knew who I was because he liked Duel. We started to speak, with an interpreter, and I would never have dared to hope what followed. He asked me to send him the script very quickly and told me that he was really late reading it. A week after I sent him the script, he sent a telegram to the film producer, Julia Philipps, saying: ‘Am interested in the film. When do we begin? ‘
Steven Spielberg started filming his new SF film with Emily Blunt
Spielberg and Lucas had spent a deal
Third -type dating was released in the United States in 1977, six months later Star Warbut competition was obviously healthy in the name of the friendship between Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. The two filmmakers, who did not expect to have great success with their respective films, had even reached an agreement to amortize a possible failure at the box office.
“”There has always been friendly competition between the technical teams of Dating… And Star War. We even counted the number of special effects sequences that we had each other! But, frankly, neither George nor I were really sure of our films and their potential success. George thought that his film was going to bring back fifteen million dollars around the world and that’s it! We were so unsure of what we did that we had taken parts, vice versa, each in the film of the other. With my parts in Star WarI also earned more money than George with his in his Dating… (Laughs)“”
If he obviously performed much less than the first Star Wars, Third -type dating experienced a great success at the box office, with $ 300 million in revenue for a budget of 20 million.
Why are there two versions
Two years after the film’s release, Spielberg launched himself into a new editing of Dating… And for good reason. The director did not assume the first version of the film, which he had delivered under pressure from the studio.
“”Columbia was bad financially and was impatiently awaiting the release of the film, I was in a hurry to finish it on a very specific date. Suddenly, I had to make a lot of compromise in the mounting room. Then had the feeling that it was not the film I wanted. After the successes of the film, I asked Columbia to let me go up and make it my film, and to let me return some scenes from the original script that I had not had time or the money to shoot at the time, because I had cut my food. They let me do it and it was fun …“”
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Steven Spielberg fought to prevent the continuation of and the extraterrestrial
