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柏林记者会新闻访谈
MC: On this wonderful sunny day in Berlin Babelsberg, we would like to welcome you to this very, very exclusive press conference on the set of the new and upcoming family blockbuster, Speed Racer, directed and written by the Wachowski Brothers, and produced by über producer, as we would say in German, Joel Silver. And all of that, as you can see, just a couple of days ahead before the first day of shooting, so this is a very special event, and we are all very happy to have you here.
So now please welcome the CEO and President of Studio Babelsberg Charlie Woebcken and the cast and the producer of this upcoming blockbuster. Roger Allam, Kick Gurry, Ji Hoon Jung, popularly known as Rain, Hiroyuki Sanada, Benno Fürmann, Richard Roundtree, Matthew Fox, Susan Sarandon, Emile Hirsch, Producer Joel Silver, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, and Paulie Litt.
Welcome to Berlin, it is great to have you here, before we start the press conference there’s one more star that we’d like to introduce to you and we are very happy to have it here at the studio in Babelsberg, it’s the Mach 5 and we’d like to show you what it looks like. [Reveal]
Mr. Silver, before we get started, because as it’s Germany, I need to ask this question, where can I buy one of these cars?
JOEL SILVER: Well, that may be the only one we build…
MC: So it’s going to be hard. Mr. Silver, first of all, why did the Wachowski Brothers choose Speed Racer as their first directorial debut basically after the Matrix trilogy?
JOEL SILVER: They were always very big fans of Speed Racer. When they were kids it was the first time they had seen Japanese animation, which made them understand there was a different kind of animation out there in the world. Having grown up on Hanna-Barbera, Fred Flintstone and Yogi Bear, this was the first time they saw something that was really different. And at the same time they wanted to make a film for their nieces and their nephews and their friends and their families; they’ve made a lot of R rated movies and they’ve never really made films for everybody. And it was an opportunity to make something that was a big family movie, a big fresh idea, and to do something that they’ve always loved, Speed Racer, and so here we all are.
MC: We are very much looking forward to seeing this movie next year. So the press conference is open if you have any questions.
PRESS: Joel, you’ve been wanting to make this film for some time, what was it about the Brothers’ idea that really caught you beyond the family entertainment idea?
JOEL SILVER: Sometimes these movies come together very quickly, sometimes they take a long time. We’ve been trying to make this for 11 years, and we just never could find the right way to do it. When Larry and Andy came to me and they said look, we think we have a way to do this that has never been done before, and I love working with them anyway, so I said, let’s go, let’s do it. It will have a vastly different look, they’re wonderful writers, the Wachowski Brothers, and they wrote a really great, powerful, emotional, fun story that was able to interest all these wonderful actors, and a whole lot of people who are putting this movie together. I think that they’ve really framed it in a way that is unique and fresh, but it keeps the essence of what Speed Racer was. They’re very conscious about what made them like Speed Racer in the first place, so it has all that magic of the original and a whole brand new incredible story.
PRESS: This is a question for the cast, whoever wants to answer can answer, all of you. I just want to know how was the experience of coming into this film, how did any one of you audition, how was the experience of talking to the Wachowski Brothers, if you have already started rehearsals, how is it to work with 2 creative minds, and if you had any experience of Speed Racer the anime before committing to this film?
EMILE HIRSCH: I think I can answer the first part of that, or the last part. When I was 6 years old I used to watch Speed Racer on cartoon network, and that was actually the year that I decided I wanted to be an actor. I was like, Dad, I want to try acting, and he was like, really? You want to try it? So for me it was all those years ago, I have always been interested in Speed Racer. I think that Larry and Andy are so smart and they finish each others sentences, they’re almost like the agents in The Matrix you know, they just know what each other are thinking. So for me, to have two great minds working all the time, it just gets so much more done, and it’s so much more of a collaboration.
MC: Who wants to answer the second part of the question?
CHRISTINA RICCI: Which part… was that about auditioning?
MC: Yes.
CHRISTINA RICCI: I was sent the script, which was of course very top secret, so I was sent the script two days before and heard about the project and was very excited because I was a huge fan of the Wachowskis. I had seen Speed Racer cartoons before, but I didn’t know that much about Speed Racer, so I watched a few more cartoons and went in [to audition] and Emile was there and read with me. Everybody was just so lovely, the Brothers were great to me and I read, and since then just talking to the Brothers is so exciting because they truly are visionaries. I mean, if you think about what they did with The Matrix, they completely revolutionized that genre. So to be able to do a family film about this story, which is so cool anyway and everyone loves cars, and to think about how they’re going to revolutionize this genre as well, it is really exciting to be a part of.
EMILE: I mean, just look at the Mach 5, amazing.
PRESS: I would like to ask Mr. Ji Hoon Jung and Mr. Joel Silver. First of all, Mr. Ji Hoon Jung would you explain to the Korean audience what your actual role in that movie is as a rival driver, and would you give us your first impression on the worldwide stage, such as a Hollywood movie. And second, for Mr. Joel Silver, what brought you to pick up and cast Mr. Ji Hoon Jung as the rival driver, and would you give us a specific reason why.
JI HOON JUNG: [translator speaking] When I received a proposal for this movie, I was really happy and thought it was a great chance. My role in this movie, as it is for Speed and Racer X, is to lead and defend family. I really like my role and I'm very excited to be part of this movie.
JOEL SILVER: When I was in Japan once, on a press tour that I went on, and we were there with a lot of Hollywood stars, there was a commotion in the lobby of the hotel and it wasn’t of course for us, it was for him, so I said, who is that guy? And somebody told me about him. He’s a pretty good looking guy and pretty talented and when the Bothers’ first impression about Speed Racer was to try to bring an international cast together, we thought about who is out there who might want to be a part of this project. I’m happy that he’s here and we’re all here together.
MC: Paulie, you are the youngest member of the cast and your character in the series has a great sidekick, could you tell us if that sidekick is going to be in the movie as well.
PAULIE LITT: Yes he is. My sidekick is Willy and Kenzie (Chim-chim), they’re amazing how smart they are, it’s really amazing what they do. I’m going to set the record straight for everybody, Willy and Kenzie do not like to be called monkeys, they like to be called chimpanzees. They don’t have tails, monkeys do, and it’s so funny because if you call them a monkey, they notice when you call them a monkey. They get insulted that you call them a monkey. You called me a monkey? So they’re very special and amazing.
PRESS: This is a question to Mr. Silver. The movie benefits with 9 million euro from our new German film fund, was it for you all the reason to come back to Babelsberg? And the second question, could you try to explain why did you come back after V For Vendetta?
JOEL SILVER: Well, we had a wonderful experience making V here, being in Berlin is great, the country is fantastic, and the facility here, Babelsberg, is a co producer of the movie and they have such a great team, working with them. It is economically advantageous for us to shoot here; it’s a wonderful ability we have to make a deal where we can get some help in making our picture. That is one reason, although in a lot of places in the world you can get help to make pictures, but we really like being in Babelsberg, we like being in Berlin in Germany, we’re happy to be back, we were looking forward to coming back and we’ll be back again. It’s a great place to make movies and I can’t say enough how much we enjoy it, and how we look for other reasons we can be here and we can make other movies.
PRESS: Another question for Joel, with apologies to the cast, I just wanted to ask in terms of the look of the film, and particularly in terms of the driving sequences, how much is going to be computer generated, how much is going to be actual racing? For example, this wonderful car, does it run?
JOEL SILVER: No.
EMILE HIRSCH: If you give it a good pushing start it might.
JOEL SILVER: It is pretty incredible what we can do today. I mean, sitting in the front row here are some of our incredible talented visual effects people, John Gaeta and Dan Glass who have worked with us on our pictures, like The Matrix and V. I think that we’re going to be pushing the envelope, setting new standards, throwing everything out and doing everything new. I think they’re really evolving a new way of picture making. When we started The Matrix with the first images of the bullet time as we called it, it was done with still cameras, which were 128 still cameras in a row, we’d take lots of pictures and put them all together. It’s changed so much in the 10 years since we made that picture, and I think we’re going to do that with this one as well. There’re going to be very little actual cars running in this movie, I mean, we’re going to have cars in this movie, but the things that these cars are going to do could not really happen in the real world. They won’t look like animation, they will be beautiful live action images, but they’ll be all done in a new style of production. The movie is being filmed not on film, it’s being filmed in HD – we refer to the shooting process as the initial capture – and from there we go to work. So it’s going to be a really different way of making a movie and watching and seeing a movie.
PRESS: How important is it that Speed Racer is filming in Berlin?
DR. CARL WOEBCKEN: For us it is very important to have this film here in Germany, it’s a great opportunity for the German talent and the German crew and also for us to work on a very high Hollywood level, in terms of working with internationally renowned talent, and also to work on the forefront of modern filmmaking technologies. And the other thing is also that this film creates jobs in the industry in Berlin and also in Babelsberg, so this is a very important film for us.
PRESS: I have a question for the leading roles, maybe Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci and Matthew Fox, if they could explain what’s their character, what they are playing, and is there a love triangle?
MATTHEW FOX: I’m playing Racer X, I have to confess to not knowing much about Speed Racer until I came to this project, I grew up without a television, so I didn’t really know a whole lot about it until I met with Larry and Andy, and from there I did a little bit of research and definitely recalled the images of Speed Racer. I went in and met Larry & Andy and they just pretty much blew me away with the way they talked about the picture, and about what they were wanting to do with it. Racer X is a fairly mysterious and enigmatic character, he is – I can’t give away obviously too much about who he is and how he fits into the series – but I’ve never been as excited to be a part of a project as I am on this. It’s something I’m thrilled to be a part of and I just think about – I have two children – and I think about obviously the way they’re going to view this. And also their dad playing Racer X I think is also going to be pretty cool, so I’m very, very happy to be a part of it.
EMILE HIRSCH: Speed is for me, just a really pure hearted hero who wants to do the right thing and be the best racer he can be, when he comes up against corporate values that are different from his family values. For me that’s where his test of character comes in: what kind of man is he going to be? I think that, that was what really attracted me to the character, [Speed] just sticking to his roots and his values, even though there’s a swirl of big business around him.
CHRISTINA RICCI: I play Trixie, and I’m Speed’s faithful girlfriend, they’ve been together since grade school. I’m really excited because I just feel that there are so many negative images for little girls out there and she’s a very strong willed smart girl who also is super cute and has great clothes, so I’m pretty into it.
EMILE HIRSCH: We’ve been together since grade school, but the relationship isn’t stale.
MC: Mr. Sanada, we’ve been talking about the anime series and Speed Racer, this was the first one that was shown in Germany and in the States, you probably grew up with anime series, so what is the specialty of Speed Racer in comparison to others; what makes it so special and so great?
HIROYUKA SANADA: I’m just exactly the Speed Racer generation, I grew up with Speed Racer, he was my hero, and so I’m so excited to be here. Every week I watched the TV series and of course am really excited with the nice racing scene, action and everything, but also we could learn a lot from Speed Racer about glory, justice and that sometimes we have to fight against somebody for friendship or love. This message is universal, so I’m very glad to remake it with a wonderful crew and international cast. As Japanese we can introduce our culture and cartoon all over the world, it is so amazing, and also I am very happy to be here as a Japanese actor.
PRESS: What’s your own record of speed maximum on the highway and any problems with police?
MC: Who would like to answer that one? Paulie?
PAULIE: Well, I’ll answer that from the trunk of the Mach 5, that’s where I’ll be in that. I heard it goes pretty fast, but I’m in the trunk, so I don’t see how fast he’s going. He should go about like, I hope, this would be fun, going like 300 would be so much fun just zooming past everybody. It’s a lot of fun in the trunk, I’ll tell you that.
EMILE HIRSCH: One of the funny things for me was that before I got the part I was known in my circle of friends as the slowest driver, the granny driver, I’m like, do you guys have your seat belts on, because I’m not starting the car if you don’t have your seat belts on. But once I got the part I started driving a little bit faster and a little bit faster, so by the time this comes out, I should be formula oneing it.
CHRISTINA: I’m a terrible driver, I’ll just admit that right now, and I drive really fast and scare people in the car, my passengers, but I’ve never gotten a ticket ever, so I can’t be that bad.
JOHN GOODMAN: I got up to 140 miles an hour in west Texas in a Chevrolet Impala Super Sport.
PRESS: What was it about the part of mom and pops Racer that made you decide to come and make this movie with Joel and the Wachowskis.
SUSAN SARANDON: Well, besides what everyone else has said, I’ve never baked in a movie before and I’m really looking to do a cooking show as a spin off. So I thought what better way but to spend the summer in Berlin and make pancakes and cookies with the Wachowskis, because when I talk to them on the phone I don’t have the faintest idea what they’re talking about. So, why not? I’ve never done a movie like this and it’s a great cast, I love people that are trying something different, and I’ve been around so long that it’s hard to find someone that is trying something different, so I was really thrilled that they asked me and I can’t wait to meet them.
JOHN GOODMAN: I came to eat Susan’s fabulous baking.
PRESS: This is a question for Mr. Roundtree. Could you please tell us about your character in the movie and how you got attached to the whole project.
RICHARD ROUNDTREE: Well first of all, I knew nothing about Speed Racer, but I do have five children of varying ages and they used to come home from school and watch it, so they filled me in on what it was. When I met the Wachowski Brothers I didn’t know what they were talking about, and to be a part of something, I get a sense that it’s almost kind of like reinventing the wheel. This is totally new and to be a part of that is exciting and with an international cast as well. I have been here before in Germany and it is going to be filmed in Germany in Berlin, that’s all exciting, new technology, the fact that my character loves this kid because of his integrity, because of his firm footing and having been a racer myself and took a wrong turn perhaps, I watch this kid and I see his ability and I see a bit of myself in him, and he’s a winner and he triumphs over the pitfalls that I possibly succumbed to. That’s exciting and I love watching him because I kind of live vicariously through him.
MC: Kick, one question to you. Did you even have to think about playing a part in this movie, knowing that it’s about heroes, action, cartoon, written by the Wachowskis and directed by them?
KICK GURRY: No, no I did not for a second. The first film I ever made was in 1998 in Sydney and when we were rehearsing that film it was a little annoying because there was a helicopter that kept flying overhead and we couldn’t hear each other. We kept looking out the window and it was Keanu’s and Laurence Fishburne’s stunt doubles shooting the scene from the original Matrix. Someone made the point that that was probably costing more than our entire budget for the Australian film we were making. I remember looking out the window and thinking I’d love to be in a movie like that one day, and when this came up there was certainly not a second’s thought about being involved.
PRESS: [translator speaking] He is asking why Mr. Jung chose this film rather than the other big film he got another offer from; and the other thing is, what is his ambition as an actor instead of as a singer.
JI HOON JUNG: [translator speaking] I thought this is basically a lifetime chance … when I met Wachowskis I saw the pre-production stuff I was kind of overwhelmed. Basically I am pretty sure there is no doubt it is going to beyond your expectations. Whatever you thought or imagined, it is going to be beyond that, so that’s why I chose this one. Basically I really appreciate this opportunity, so thank you for that. Also the other cast and crew… Susan Sarandon is his favorite actress, and Matthew Fox, and Emile Hirsch, and all this all international cast, I’m really, really happy to be working with them. So just keep an eye on us and thank you for that, thank you for everything.
PRESS: Question to Mr. Silver: could you elaborate on why it took so long to get this made, to get this started.
JOEL SILVER: These movies have a life, it just somehow works out that way. It took me a long time to make V For Vendetta as well, it took years before we could put that together, and I think that just now is the right time for Speed Racer. It just feels that the technology has advanced and we can do what we want to do. Earlier we would be trying to have these cars drive down the track and jump in the air and do things that they really could never have done, and I think now we can do all that. I think that it is just a perfect time for the movie and it feels like this is the way it came together. You never know when that is going to happen, but you work hard on these movies and some happen, as I said before, very quickly, and some take a long time, and I just think that now is the right time for this picture.
MC: Benno, you’re a huge star in Germany and you’ve worked on a few international productions, what did you think when you received the call to be a part of Speed Racer?
BENNO “BENNO” FÜRMANN: It could be worse… that was my first thought… with these people here and the Brothers. What I like about it, I play a pretty straight forward inspector who is fighting the bads of a corrupt corporate enterprise for a better tomorrow, so to speak. And the baking thing definitely did it for me again, after getting to watch Susan Sarandon bake it was even more worthwhile preserving this world for a better future.
PRESS: I probably have the typical Berlin question, because first I would like to know how long are you guys staying in Berlin and I would also like to know what you are planning to do or what you would like to see in Berlin, what do you like here, what are you doing in your spare time and where would you like to go?
CHRISTINA: We’re here about four months I think and I’m really excited, I’ve never been here before and I’ve been here about a week now. I have heard so much about Berlin being such an amazing cultural centre and so I’m excited to see a lot of the art that’s here.
EMILE HIRSCH: The people here in Germany, I love them, it’s just, it’s a completely different culture than the United States, but it’s just as wonderful. We’ve been going to different restaurants every single night like clockwork because we haven’t started shooting yet, and there’re just so many great restaurants here, you know, a lot of German restaurants and a lot of Italian… although I wasn’t the biggest fan of the blood sausage… afterwards they were like, you ordered blood sausage? Are you crazy?
SUSAN SARANDON: You can’t talk about that at the junket though. I’ve been here for the Cinema for Peace, which was fantastic but of course it’s not really like living here, and since we’ll be here for a long time. I know this is a big summer for art in Berlin, I’m hoping also, I don’t know if I’ll be able to get to some of the other cities that are having [events] and the big sculpture thing that they’re having here, and I know that there’s a lot of music. I’m looking for the underbelly, so if anybody wants to drop off any suggestions to the production office, but I know that there’s a lot of great music coming out of here, so I’m on a mission. Also, I’m very happy that dogs can eat in restaurants, because in the United States they don’t let you anywhere near a restaurant with a dog, so I’ve brought my dog to expand her horizons a little bit and I’m going to take her to a lot of… maybe blood sausage restaurants, I don’t know.
EMILE HIRSCH: She won’t like it.
SUSAN SARANDON: She won’t like it? But I hear this is the happening place, right? So if anybody has any suggestions because we’re shooting short days so this should open up… we’re giving up lunch so we can have our nighttimes.
MC: What about you Mr. Goodman?
JOHN GOODMAN: I’d like to learn the language as rapidly as possible and avoid police trouble.
PRESS: A question to Mr. Hiroyuki Sanada, what kind of character do you play in the movie and what impression did you have from the first meeting with the Wachowski Brothers?
HIROYUKI SANADA: I play Mr. Musha, a kind of businessman, the owner of the motors, a little strange and maybe against this family, sorry, and a little mysterious and a little funny. That’s all. I met the Brothers three or four years ago, just general. When I read the script, I was moved, which I thought for Speed Racer was all enclosed in the script, it was great, [I decided] I want to be there and work with them. I’m so excited and I can’t wait to start shooting.
PRESS: [translator speaking] The question is if Benno is going to show all of you around Germany, and especially Berlin.
BENNO “BENNO” FÜRMANN: [translator speaking] He said that he’s rented a car and you don’t have to worry about anything because he knows exactly where he needs to go, so always keep close to Benno.
PRESS: Question to Susan Sarandon: you’re not only a beautiful actress but also known as very engaged on political matters, do you follow the discussions about the G8 meeting in Heiligendamm and do you have a message to the politicians over there?
SUSAN SARANDON: See, you put the nice part in the beginning so I would feel very comfortable getting myself in trouble with the second part of the question. I was at the G8 when it was in Scotland, that was my G8 time, I put in for that one. I guess it’s the same message all the time, I think it’s really great that anybody even notices and understands now what the G8 is about, so that’s been a plus. But I have to say, in order of what’s going on in my country, compared to worrying about the G8, it’s not at the top of my list at the moment.
MC: Let’s get back to the movie.
PRESS: This question is for Mr. Joel Silver: are you going to have stunt performers for the dangerous scenes?
JOEL SILVER: Yes, there will be some stunt performers in the picture, but most of that work is going to be done in the safety of the computer, so I think that we’re going to be pretty OK in that. I mean there are some things that we need to do, but all the really dangerous things will not be dangerous.
MC: Kick and Roger, we’ve been talking about all the characters that most of the other actors play, could you explain to us what role you are playing in the movie Speed Racer and what it’s all about.
ROGER ALLAM: Well, I’m from England, and I’m playing someone who isn’t very nice. Royalton is the head of a huge corporation, a many tentacled corporation, and I think he kind of seeks a kind of world domination through the medium of car racing. In a sense, I suppose he kind of represents the large corporate ethic against the loyalty and love and friendship of the family. Why he is like he is, I think I’ll have to tell you in a few months time.
KICK GURRY: I’m from Australia and I play a character that is the exact opposite of everything Roger just said. Which is good because it’s British and Australian, so it’s kind of fitting.
PRESS: Could this be the beginning of a new franchise?
JOEL SILVER: Wouldn’t that be great! I mean, I hope so, we hope so, that was the intention. We have to make the first one to make sure people like it and that we know what we’re doing, but the story does continue and it would be fun to continue it, so I hope so, yes.
SUSAN SARANDON: I am really trying very hard to just get on the lunch box. Or a thermos.
PRESS: I’ve got a question about the creativity, or the problems with creativity, when working with purely green screen. I wonder if the cast can answer that.
EMILE HIRSCH: For me it’s a challenge because the things aren’t there, so in a certain sense you have to go back to when you first started acting on stage and you had to imagine the whole world around you. It’s a lot like that, you know, whereas on a film the sets are there, and everything is kind of interacting with you. I think it just requires a crazy imagination and a willingness to kind of go for it, I’d say.
PRESS: [translator speaking] He’s asking Christina Ricci and Emile Hirsch if they know anything about Ji Hoon Jung and what they think about him.
EMILE HIRSCH: I love him.
CHRISTINA RICCI: Yes. I think I first heard about him on the internet actually and he’s awesome.
EMILE HIRSCH: One of the first films I worked on was with Justin Timberlake, and he was very big in America with the music, so it will be very cool to see how you shape up!
JI HOON JUNG: Thank you Hirsch.
EMILE HIRSCH: I think on June 6th Timberlake might be coming into town, so maybe we’ll go to the concert.
MC: And one last thing Matthew, because you said you didn’t grow up with a television set, how many episodes of Speed Racer did you have to watch in order to prepare for this shoot?
MATTHEW FOX: Well, I did immediately run out and get the DVD set of all the episodes of Speed Racer and I’m sort of working my way through, although after spending some time with the presentation of Larry and Andy and starting to see what they’re doing with this movie, I’m not sure watching the original series is going to be all that helpful, other than in sort of a nostalgic way, and sort of understanding their love for the series and what they’re attempting… how they’re trying to maintain that into this futurized version, but I will spend some time with it, yes.
MC: Thank you very much.
JOEL SILVER: I want to say one more thing. I want to say thank you very much to Owen Paterson and Hugh Bateup for getting this car ready for us for today, they did a beautiful job, thank you guys.
MC: And thank you very much for coming here, all the best for your shoot and we are very much looking forward to seeing the movie next year in May. |
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