Isn’t it romantic? A few days after February 14ThBerlinale Blue Moon.
In the show, Ethan Hawke still suffered his recent alienation from composer Richard Rogers (Andrew Scott) as a famous (famous torture) lyric poet. Completely set on March 31, 1943 – only a few months before Hart died of pneumonia at the age of 48 –Blue Moon Occurs during premiere Oklahoma!a new musical from Rogers’ newly cast duo and Lorenz’s alternative lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II.
Of course Hart was ruined, watch Oklahoma! The bitter distance smelled some whiskey early before the premiere of Big Broadway, and a little kibbitz with Sardinian bartender (Bobby Cannavale) will soon host the opening night of the musical. .
“It’s a 14-carat hit,” Hart sniffs. “There are 14 carats of shit.” He is Oklahoma!– More importantly, mentioning the strong exclamation mark in the title – while recognizing that it is an irreverent art, high school will re-stage enthusiastically over the decades to come. He was worried that his career was over. Rogers and Hart are so long, a fruitful partnership that lasted for 24 years and produced 1,000 songs for more than twenty musicals, as well as numerous Hollywood hits, Hart’s alcoholism then caused such instability and arrogant behavior that would ruin their relationship.
Blue Moon It is Linklater’s character study of Hart, placed almost entirely in one location and featured Hawk in every scene, a manic, self-stimulating, self-loathing, wild and hopelessly desire word maker . Through old-fashioned movie magic, this 5’10-inch blue-eyed actor has also literally reduced in the film to match Lorentz’s short stature (less than 5 feet), as well as his dark and sunny colors – over ).
Hart’s lyrics include “The Lady is a Bunny”, “Disguised, troubled and confused”, and “Love in Love”, revealing a man so fascinated that he is so obsessed with two men and two A man is attracted to him, revealing a man and a woman. He declared: “I am all Nicea,” although most women consider themselves gay and responded to his proposal to the hurt friend zone remarks: “I love you, just not here That Way. ”
His latest object of desire: 20-year-old Yalie Elizabeth Weiland, whose emerald eyes, bottled hair and “attractive ethereal” face fascinated him. He had a rapport with her, and he thought it was evidence of something more. Her presence at the party will be the time for his feelings for her. But what would cause him more pain – Elizabeth or his old songwriting partner?
What this intimate movie really sings is the requirement of Robert Kaplow’s original script: essentially a position where the protagonist can have every conversation with all the other characters. It was a unique creative challenge for the director and his main stars, their first collaboration came to Berlin for the first time, their first collaboration, Before sunrise– Winning the Best Director of Linklater Silver Bear.
“Lorenz Hart is the ultimate lyricist of unfulfilled love,” Linklater said at a press conference for the film. Blue Moon First appearance. “It’s even more poignant. The movie is about relationships and art, but it’s also about love and its complexity.”
“Robert Kaplow wrote an absolutely beautiful script for us,” Hawke said. “It’s basically a movie. It has this simplicity, but to make the vocabulary come alive, To improve its musical quality. When is it fast? When is it slow? When is it arrested, when is it heartbreaking, when is it stupid? How to keep changing? It takes a long time to understand the dynamics that work.”
But the reason Hawke fell in love with the script is Caplo’s three-dimensional portrait. “There are a lot of opposites to this character that Robert created,” Hawke said. “That’s what really makes me about it. He’s small, big. He’s a lover, he’s lonely. He’s deeply insecure, And very confident. I can say I prepared it by shaving my head and listening to Lorenz Hart’s songs. But that’s not true.”
Impressed by Scott, reading a script that makes Rodgers as vulnerable and injured as Hart. Throughout the film, both have such a pregnant conversation about emotions and history that their words bleed. “You have these stolen moments of heartbreak, desire, love, pain and real feelings,” Scott said. “How do you do this on an opening night for the biggest musical production ever made in the opening night,” he said. A conversation?”
Most importantly, the Blue Moon is not about romantic love, but about platonic love. “For many of us, the biggest love of our lives is our friendship,” Scott said. “This friendship stems from work. I like the idea that it’s a workplace movie.”
“It’s weird to watch a movie about heartbreak when everyone is actually kind,” Hawke said. “One of the things I really like about Richard Linklater’s movie is , they love people. These hearts are broken, but people are all kind to each other. Or they try. And we are still injured. I found that profound. ”
