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[Don Quixote] The Fountain: From Darkness to Light.

As the gentleman

Quichano Alonso, Rocinante my chair, my pen, loyal spear, and the second hero, worthy Sancho Panza, I jumped, justice-loving dreamer, kill these mills are the words uttered harsh criticism formatted by the authors. The Fountain for Dulcinea, I will bring this masterpiece for many a turnip, from darkness to light.

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Director Darren Aronofsky

Main actors
Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn
Scenario
Story: Darren Aronofsky & Ari Handel
Screenplay: Darren Aronofsky
Music
Clint Mansell
Photography
Matthew Libatique

Budget $ 35,000,000
Duration
96 min
output
November 22, 2006 ---

[BOOK OF JUDGES]

After conclusion of the mentioned article Mr. Nobody, I could not pass up the opportunity to again crusade against critics too chilly. For just as the work of Van Dormael, this little baby Darren Aronofsky film The Fountain what is mostly down because of its unconventionality, originality and complexity. Demonstration of the violent reactions of the subconscious of subjects panicked by misunderstanding:

- "lit this movie gets lost in the swirls of smoky scenario convoluted and pretentious. " (Paris Match)
- " All three episodes are interlaced (...) staged a rare claim (imaging fussy, assembly Arch-convoluted). The apotheosis pseudo-Buddhist, a kitsch experiencing, stun us complete. " ( Humanity )
- " The previous films of Darren Aronofsky (...) had been somewhat overstated, but "The Fountain" is to arrange without delay to the radius of nonsense "(The New Observer )
And again, the palm of the''breaking media outlet as a frustrated ego be nothing''got it back to Inrockuptibles :
- "If, as Aronofsky, we himself as a demiurge mystic, we risk falling into kitsch psychedelic nirvana in Las Vegas sauce. In any case, we are not more advanced way of life. The beautiful scam. " (though the scam is to pretend that The Fountain wants to give meaning to life, which is clearly not the case.)

But now First also seized his weapon, and joined me in my quest:
- "His allergy to conventions and its blind ambition may leave a majority of the public on the floor ... which deprive one of the most fascinating works to have graced the halls for a very long time "
Followed closely by others who join our ranks:
- "The Fountain is an intimate epic, metaphysical and deeply moving. " (TéléCinéObs)
- " The Fountain demonstrated a boldness and originality (...) welcome a work on edge transpiring sincerity, and supported by the superb music from Mansell and Mogwai. " (Mad Movies)
- " (...) Darren Aronofsky button again to perfection and leaves the viewer devastated satiated, in tears or tatters. While not a masterpiece, a miracle ... " ( have-aLire.com )

which of all of them be trusted? Which side to choose? That's what you decide with me in these next lines.

[FIRST BOOK REVIEWS]

Summarize The Fountain is no easy thing, but dare it anyway.

We follow Tomás-Thomas-Tom, a central figure magnificently played by Hugh Jackman , timeless in its quest for immortality. Whether the Conquistador Tomas searching "in jungles of New Spain "Tree of Life on behalf of Queen Isabel, or Thomas" Tommy Creo, working hard at his lab to find a cure for the tumor from his wife Izzi Creo (another timeless figure in the features of the beautiful Rachel Weisz ) and Tom on board a vessel tip en route to a nebula, and these three eras are gathered by a common purpose: to confront death. The three stories intersect and intertwine, but do not reverse, and are led by founding themes and symbols throughout the complex plot that is unfolding before our eyes: Immortality, the acceptance (of the illness, the fatality), the Tree of Life, Xibalba Nebula, Shadow and Light.

ingredients epic.

[BOOK OF NUMBERS]

And yet, let's face it now: this movie is a failure. Released November 22, 2006 (December 27, 2006 in France) It will cost $ 35 million to Warner Bros.., For a total profit of less than 16 million. And if you look at the rankings, the film takes place, according to boxofficemojo.com, in the 68th position all "movies not recommended for children under 13 years of 2006, far behind Scary Movie 4 or Big Momma's House 2 ... That is to say.

[SECOND BOOK REVIEWS]

But the film has not been a commercial failure, it was nearly a complete failure.

[Genesis] - After the first two films (Pi, Requiem For A Dream) Aronofsky was climbing the ladder of fame and had gained a name and reputation, especially with the cult of an entire generation of young Requiem For A Dream. It also just after the second film in 1999 that Darren threw the first lines of "The Last Man" on his map script. Three years later, in 2002 the project was renamed "The Fountain" and is ready to be filmed in Australia. Warner pulls out all the stops for the next realization of the young prodigy, and spends $ 70 million to finance the next masterpiece. Brad Pitt (big fan of Requiem) is committed to the role - even before I finished reading the script - and Cate Blanchett that Isabel "Izzi" Creo. The bases of the film are thrown, the sets are designed and assembled near Gold Coast, Queensland, south of Brisbane, and nearly 10 million have already spent in pre-production. Darren prances.

[Apocalypse] - Cate Blanchett is pregnant. After two and a half years of collaboration on the film with Darren, Brad Pitt gets scared. The complexity of the script discouraged, and he fled to Troy. The attractiveness of a stamp - much higher - on the set of Wolfgang Petersen peplum would it have been his Achilles heel? With the cancellation of contracts of the two bankable stars of the film, Warner Bros.. is temporarily ceased production of the film, but did not give up. The sets are dismantled and sold at auction. The budget, revised down. Approximately 1,500 people (including families and children), emigrated to Australia for the purpose of the film, are unemployed and need technical turn around.

[Crossing the Desert] - Will follow seven months of scarcity, where the film was shelved. Darren, anxious to see his offspring to emerge at all costs, is moving toward a subsidiary of DC Comics, Vertigo, American comic book publisher specializing in the fantastic (Fables, Hellblazer) and tackling more adult themes than the usual comic in DC (A History Of Violence, V For Vendetta). He chose Kent Williams as the author and the original script it puts in the hands, giving him full authority over: Kent Williams will be the director of graphic Fountain 1.0, for hounds to see qu'Aronofsky birth to a 2.0 in film The Fountain. With Ari Handel, co-author of the script, they tackle the rewriting of history. Exit the fighting armies in Braveheart or Lord Of The Rings, three conquistadors and twenty Mayan suffice. The film is stripped, peeled like an onion, reduced to its very essence. The film is reviewed in an independent spirit, with a budget But more than this type of film (but still more than most movies these days). With 35 million dollars in his pocket, Darren asks a second time the first stone, two years after Australia, in studios in Montreal, Canada. [Resurrection].


With almost the same dream team technique in his previous feature films and some favorite actors (Mark Margolis , for whom the role of the priest Avila was written, and that the found since Pi (1999) [Sol Robeson, the partner Go Max Cohen] to The Wrestler (2008) [where he plays Lenny, the owner of Randy Robinson] through Requiem For A Dream (2000) [M. Rabinowitz, who sells Harry the TV's own mother] ; Ellen Burstyn , for whom the role of Dr. Lilian Guzet was written to measure, and found in Requiem For A Dream in the role of Sara Goldfarb, the mother of amphetamine-based diet), the new prodigy of film is about to give us a work comprehensive and complex.

The film's strength lies not only in its themes and originality, but also in its soundtrack. As for his first film, Pi, Darren Aronofsky's films accompanying the compositions of Mr. Clint Mansell . Former singer and guitarist of punk electronic Pop Will Eat Itself, Clint was hired by Darren to create his first film soundtrack. The beginning of a long successful career. The little genius of film music, everyone (re) know at least " Lux Aeterna," the main theme of Requiem For A Dream, beautifully played by the Kronos Quartet, who will resume the service for The Fountain.



Unlike some composers, called in post-production for "paste" a soundtrack to the movie they are planning, Clint Mansell is still involved with Darren Aronofsky from the first seconds project. Thus, with the setbacks experienced by The Fountain, Clint has had nearly 6 years to compose music. The primary difficulty for the composer was how to find the music for three different historical periods : The film constantly juggling with these three stories, go to a tribal percussion futuristico electro-spatial, not to mention a more contemporary soundtrack, was inaudible. Mr Mansell has opted to stick, not history, but history. Tomas, Tommy and Tom being all three embarked on the same quest, driven by the same feelings, so the music reflects the identity of each adventure. Throughout the film, the listener may recognize common motifs in pieces, embroidered around variations, all gathered on the piece of the final scene, orgasmic, "Death Is The Road To Awe ", Performed by the Kronos Quartet and sublimated by the post-rock group Mogwai:



The Fountain is not a film puller tears, he did not support the overly pathos, it's a film on edge. Yet, as long as you're a tad sensitive, Music Mansell delight your tear glands, like the generic, accompanied by " Together We Will Live Forever " , a version is much more poignant with words, whispered by Antony Hegarty , singer Antony And The Johnsons . This song is only on the Myspace Clint Mansell, under the title "The Last Man" .

(Anecdotally, another singer would lend his voice to the soundtrack: David Bowie . Darren Aronofsky admits that his main inspiration was futuristic for its time the album Space Oddity (1969), whose main character, Major Tom, gave its name to the hero of the film. Darren would have liked Bowie composes March 1 ^e song about Major Tom, for the film, but the project failed.)

the success of his compositions, Clint Mansell was awarded, in addition Aronofsky's latest film The Wrestler , the soundtrack to many other films ( Sonny , 11: 14 , Sahara , Doom, Smokin 'Aces , One Day Maybe , Moon, etc..) and numerous awards and nominations (Golden Globes, World Soundtrack Awards, Online Film Critics Society Awards, etc..) .


The Fountain can also boast being one of the few science fiction films do not present use of computer graphics in its spatial sequence. The heads of special effects Jeremy Dawson and Dan Schreker moved towards Peter Parks who, while filming the chemical reactions in a petri dish, was able to reinvent the universe. Represent the infinitely great by the infinitely small is what was done. Each image space, the dark clouds surrounding the nebula, the nebula itself, Xibalba ... everything is superimposed images of microbiological and chemical reactions.





I finish as I concluded the article by Mr. Nobody: "Yes, it can be complicated in appearance, yes, it may be inaccessible for a certain audience lambda but we can not avoid recognize the talent of thinking, writing, control, camera ... [The Fountain] is in every way commendable. "

The Fountain is a film incredible ambition, a gamble (so much so risky that Brad Pitt has left the ship, leaving the sink), lost a bet in the room, but won when the DVD release. The film has built up a group of enthusiasts admirers, so much qu'Aronofsky is planning a version B " The Fountain, a slightly different story, told in cut scenes. but "it will not be a reality for several years" , says the director.



Darren likes to touch everything: thriller psychedelic backdrop of Kabbalah and mathematics that would not have denied a David Lynch (Pi ) dynamic drama on a teenage junkie (Requiem For A Dream ) science fiction unclassifiable and timeless ( The Fountain), quasi-documentary drama on a piece of life of a wrestler nearing retirement ( The Wrestler, critically acclaimed), and "the new Kubrick" (as Warner Bros.). also has other projects on the fire: psychological thriller ( Black Swan, Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel), historical tragedy background of Great Depression ( Serena: A Novel with Angelina Jolie), action movie based on a true story (Breaking the Bank ), historical chronicle (Jackie, film Jackie Kennedy during the 4 days following the assassination of JFK - with Rachel Weisz) or big action movie violent we are promised no under 16 years ( RoboCop, reboot the franchise launched by Verhoeven).



This filmmaker prodigy among the best of his generation, knows how to reinvent itself each time. He still promises a bright future ahead of him ...



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