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quinta-feira, 11 de novembro de 2004 Before Sunset 
Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke e Julie Delpy nos bastidores do filme: 
Sunset Story by Julie Delpy Before Sunset is a sequel to Before Sunrise, which starred Ethan and myself as younger version of the same characters, Jesse and Celine. And of course it was directed by Rick. Everybody calls him Rick, not Richard. When you first think of what this film is, two people walking around Paris and talking for an hour and a half... it sounds like you want to kill yourself rather than see it. There's no "plot" but there is a plot... it's just an emotional one. It's about an emotional progression between two people, and that's a very hard thing to do. To define the energy between people that makes everything so exciting. The idea to do Before Sunset began after the first film opened. The sequel was inspired, obviously, by the ending in Before Sunrise when they said they'd meet each other again in Vienna. We talked about it several times over the last few years, and we'd really loved working together on the first film. It was special. We had easy connections. And so when we started working in Austin on Waking Life in '99... that's when we decided to really do this sequel. We decided we had to write a minimal script, and then the three of us got together at [Before Sunset producer] John Sloss' home in Los Angeles in 2002, and we worked on it for about five days. We had decided on a real-time concept, that what happens between them should take only an hour and a half. Like The Set-Up, High Noon, Cleo From 5 to 7... I can't think of any others. Anyway, that made it a challenge. An exciting challenge. Then we went our separate ways. I wrote a bunch of scenes, about 30 or 40 pages, and Ethan wrote many pages and it was all distilled by Rick who added more pages himself. Then after a few months of sending each other bits of scences, monologues, ideas... we finally got to a point where we had a script that was presentable to Castle Rock and they gave it a green light. Then we did a tremendous amount of work in Paris. We worked on it for three days in Paris in May 2003 -- 18 hour days, I mean. Then we did a lot of last-minute re- writing in the two weeks before shooting. Before Sunset was shot in August and September of '03. About three weeks of shooting, not counting weekends. We didn't have much money. We tried different things, and wrote more than what's on-screen, but then we cut out everything that wasn't exactly right for it. We went on the location scouting together. Ethan and I knew the Shakespeare and Co. book store. Rick didn't want to show the Eiffel Tower or any of that touristy stuff, so I wound up showing him some different places and... basically the Paris I've always known and loved. It begins at Shakespeare and Co., where we meet. And then we walk out and turn the corner down rue St. Julien le Pauvre, and then left again... then we stroll into the 5th arrondisement, supposedly, although the cafe is actually in the 12th. It's an open ending. You just have to decide on your own what's going to happen with the two of them. I don't think he's going to abandon his family but he definitely has an interest in pursuing a relationship with her, and she with him. The ending of Before Sunrise was different. We worked together on this script, and the guys wanted an ending with the two of them not exchanging numbers and since we had decided that Celine and Jesse had sex in the park after they kissed... that was too much of a male fantasy for my tastes. Women don't like the idea of a one-night-stand and no prospect of a future. At least I don't. Men will fantasize on that one night and replay it in their heads over and over while women will fantasize about a possible future with that guy they had a one-night-stand with. I insisted that the characters had to have an opening, some way of contacting each other... at least for her. So that's how we decided that they would promise to meet again six months later. Today, of course, they would exchange e-mails. Not romantic but so practical. I've never been offered sexy-woman parts. I've been with men who've thought of me as sexy. My boyfriend thinks of me as sexy. But until recently, in movies, I've never seen myself as sexy, or wanted to satisfy that male sexpot thing. I was maybe a little scared of that part of me. Somehow today I'm more self assured, and I'm not as scared of my sexuality as I used to. Before it really scared me. I didn't want to be an object. I auditioned once for Krystoff Kieslowski for The Double Life of Veronique, and he told me to do something sexy, like touch my hair or look sexily into the camera, and I remember I just put my finger in my ear. That was my reaction when that male fantasy of wanting a girl to be sexy for him. So I didn't do Veronique but I was right for White. Everything that we shot for the film, is in the film. It's all basically very long takes. But something would always go wrong and we'd have to do them over. We'd finish the take and the dp would say, "Oh, the light went off, the shot didn't work.' (His name is Lee Daniels, by the way, and his work was incredible) Or you'd forget one word in the dialogue and that would screw it all up. There are so many technical issues. If you get one ten-minute scene, that's more footage than most people in one day of filming. If we hadn't had to do scenes over and over and over, our film would have been shot in a day. The reactions to the film exceeded my expectations. I'm a little surprised that people have liked it as much as they have. We had such a fun time doing it, I almost feel guilty that people like it as much as they do. It's not just respect. People are really moved by the film. It really talks to them. People see themselves in it...single people, married people. Life is difficult. Relationships are hard. I've been with my current boyfriend about three months. I've never been married. I generally go a year and half in a relationship. That's how long I go. That's the way I am but that can change. Maybe I'll get worse! I live [in Los Angeles] but I have a little studio apartment in the 15th arrondisement. I've written and am going to direct a film that I've written called Bathory. It's based on a true story that happened in 17th Century, and will be filmed in either Hungary or Romania My producer is Chris Hanley. It needs to be shot around the winter time, and it may be this winter or maybe not. I want Ethan to be in the film. I've seen him do Shakespeare -- Henry IV -- on stage. There's also a feature script I've written called Tell Me that I want to direct. It's been optioned by a company called Buena Onda. Walter Salles and Guillermo del Toro will have their next film produced through it, so we'll see how that goes. 
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