Someone in Berlin “Hotel de Rome” trust the Coen brothers not quite. Ethan and Joel sitting in a huge space, seems to have made the staff cleared all the furniture. Strangely moved into the corner, three chairs and a small side table. Ethan, the younger and smaller of the Director-siblings running, with a cup of coffee in her hand back and forth like a zoo Tiger with cabin fever. This is quite normal, he soothes the interviewer. His brother Joel contrast, most of the time rubbing his eyes. Probably that’s completely normal.
Your film “Hail, Caesar!” just the Berlinale opens. It is a film about old times of the film industry. Josh Brolin plays the Studio Manager Eddie Mannix, which is mainly engaged in sweeping the sins of his Hollywood stars under the carpet. The task is particularly difficult, as the star of the biggest studio production, Baird Whitlock (delightfully goofy played by George Clooney), is kidnapped off the set.
The world: A brief question to start: Why plays “Hail, Caesar” just 1945
Ethan Coen: The short answer: The film is not 1945 but 1951
The world:. but Josh Brolin’s character, the film studio manager Eddie Mannix, is to be recruited in a scene from the air carriers Lockheed, and the man who is charged with Mannix is secretly a photo of a mushroom cloud. Now the first atomic bomb was detonated in July 1945 …
Joel Coen: Oh, that was not a photo of an atomic bomb, but the first detonation of a hydrogen bomb prototype in May 1951
the world:. Ok, then again from the beginning: Why the film takes place in 1951?
Ethan Coen: As we have considered the history, we wanted that George Clooney, the movie star Baird Whitlock plays, is kidnapped by a set of biblical sandals movies. And the culmination of these films was in the fifties. Or?
Joel Coen: Yes, that started with “Quo Vadis” and “The Robe” and held up in the sixties with “Ben Hur” and “Spartacus”
Ethan Coen:. we also wanted Hollywood show, as the major studios still had all the power and control over the film world, this world but increasingly slipped into decadence.
The world: Quasi like the late Roman Empire
Joel Coen: Yes, exactly. Shortly before the Huns and the Goths invaded.
The world: But there was another threat to the cinema this time : the TV. Today, the Internet plays a very similar role. Reflected “Hail, Caesar” this issue
Ethan Coen: We have not consciously tried to respond to the current situation. On the contrary, we regularly make historical films, to escape from the present, to not think about the now need.
The world: Eddie Mannix, the main character of the film, is a pretty nice guy. There was at the same time in Hollywood actually an Eddie Mannix. The was Studio Manager of MGM, cared that no one knew about the escapades of his movie stars, and had absolutely no nice guy.
Ethan Coen: that’s right, the real Mannix was a tough, brute, who began his career as a bouncer at an amusement park in New jersey. This Eddie Mannix, however, has to do with our little Eddie Mannix.
Joel Coen: said Ehrlich gave us only the name and the job of the real Mannix interested. Much more exciting for us was the idea that the studio is filming a huge Bible film, is led by a man around it invites the sins of all people and can disappear with it. He actually plays a Jesus-roll. This story has the reality of the then Hollywood little in common.
The world: Did you even liked to do in this last Hollywood Movies
Joel Coen: Somehow the time was already sexy, especially the way that time films were made. The Hollywood studios were film factories, and it would have been interesting to work in such an environment. Only one would have to adapt to the system.
Ethan Coen: We are one hand privileged because we have the freedom we really think up everything on a new film itself. On the other hand, there are days when this freedom is a burden. Days when simply nothing works. Then sometimes it would be nice if someone would give us a script and says: That and you have to do today. But probably we would not like that either.
The world: Customize because in today’s Hollywood system
Joel Coen: Not really. But we have found a way how we can exist therein. Or better: The system has found a way to involve us.
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