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11:26 | 25-04-2010 | Cinematograph | 1 Comment
вслед за Андерсоном пересматривал фильмы Сатьяджит Рея (именно его работы, кстати, и вдохновили постановку “The Darjeeling Limited”): “Devi”, “Mahanagar”, “Shatranj Ke Khilari” и даже веселый “Joi Baba Felunath” — прекрасные безмерно, магическим волшебством кадра, буйством индийских жизней и в то же время совершенной общечеловечностью проникающие в самую суть вещей.
случайно выяснил так же что Сатьяджит планировал снимать ленту и о пришельцах:
‘The Alien’ was supposed to have its roots in “Bankubabur Bandhu” (‘Banku Babu’s Friend’), a short story that Satyajit Ray had written for Sandesh, the Ray family magazine. The script revolved round a spaceship that landed in a pond in rural Bengal. The villagers began worshipping it as a temple risen from the depths of the earth. The alien established contact with a young village lad named Haba (Moron) through dreams and also played a number of pranks on the village community in course of its short stay on planet earth. The plot contained the ebullient presence of an Indian businessman, a journalist from Calcutta and an American engineer. What perhaps differentiated ‘The Alien’ from hitherto done sci-fi films was the portrayal of an intruder from outer space as a benign and playful being invested with magical powers and best capable of interacting with children. “The Alien” never got made in spite of the repeated efforts of Columbia, Ismail Merchant, Sellers’ ex-agent and others
“E.T.”, то есть, один в один:
In 1982, when Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster E.T. was released, the plot bore a striking similarity to Ray’s script for The Alien, and was produced by the same company that had contracted with Ray in 1967. The similarity was considered by some, including Ray, to be more than mere coincidence. He told the Indian press that E.T. “Would not have been possible without my script of The Alien being available throughout America in mimeographed copies.”
а жаль, у Рея бы обязательно получилось:
In 1967 Ray wrote the script to a science fiction film he wanted to make called The Alien. Peter Sellers was interested in the lead role, and Marlon Brando in the second lead. With those two stars on board, Columbia Pictures contracted to do the picture, but things did not go well from the start.
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For his part Spielberg has denied plagiarizing Ray’s script. “I was a kid in high school when his script was circulating in Hollywood,” Spielberg told the press in 1982, when the issue was first raised. Whatever the truth may be, The Alien, if it had been made, certainly would have upstaged E.T., and probably Spielberg’s previous effort, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, as well–not to mention forced Ridley Scott to seek another title for his 1979 production, Alien.
великий режиссер и к, сожалению, крайне недооцененный сегодня:
Ultimately though, Satyajit Ray was an artist who didn’t need the help of Hollywood to make great films, and his international reputation and enduring legacy were established without the enormous budget needed to produce a Hollywood blockbuster. Yet in spite of his international acclaim, an assessment report made by David Shepard, director of the Film Preservation Associates and a member of the Academy in 1993, found 18 of Ray’s early films badly deteriorated. To make matters worse, the original negatives of six of Ray’s classics were destroyed in a London film laboratory fire the same year.
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