Daniel
Day-Lewis, que protagonizó en 1992 “El último de los Mohicanos”, cuenta en esta entrevista sobre el leer la
historia de James Fenimore Cooper y
el entrenarse para la película. Al autor se lo ve muy tímido y al periodista algo
agresivo con las preguntas…
I think I read
it (the novel) shortly after I met with Michael…
He (Michael Man) wanted to introduce his own
feelings and ideas about the kind of clash of cultures…
We did some
fairly unusual training as we were preparing for the film…
Daniel
Michael Blake Day-Lewis nació en Kensington, en 1957, y está retirado como actor.
La preparación que hizo Day-Lewis de su personaje para el film The
Last of the Mohicans fue bastante publicitada. Se sometió a un riguroso
entrenamiento con pesas, y aprendió a vivir de la tierra, donde su personaje
vivía, acampando, cazando y pescando. También aprendió destrezas con la madera
y a hacer canoas. Llevaba su largo rifle con él a todas horas durante la filmación
para permanecer en su personaje.
Estrenada en los
Estados Unidos en setiembre del ´92, El
último de los mohicanos fue recibida con críticas positivas y éxito
comercial. También ganó el premio de la Academia
por mejor sonido.
 |
| Day-Lewis en 2013 |
—Most American youngsters were introduced to
the writings of James
Fenimore Cooper when they were still at high school. The classic story The Last of the Mohicans can still
entertain and surprise. At least that´s what the producers are counting on.
They put their faith in director Michael
Mann and an Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis who plays the lead role
of Hawkeye in a new remake Cooper´s novel.
—When did you
first read Cooper´s last novel?
—I think I read
it shortly after I met with Michael
but the screenplay a number of times. And then I read the book out of curiosity.
It was what I really expected. Came to be a lot of help.
—You don´t
really make an effort to adhere that close to the novel, right?
—There´s a huge
???
—Why? It was
this from the beginning, to be view much more as an entertainment vehicle than
the romantic version that Cooper put
on paper?
—I don’t think.
I think Michael had been greatly
interested when he first saw the 1937 version and read the screenplay from
which he based his own. He wanted to introduce his own feelings and ideas about
the kind of clash of cultures; a kind of political complexity of the fight
between the various people at that time in the frontier.
—You spent weeks
in wilderness training. Is that true?
—We did some
fairly unusual training as we were preparing for the film, yeah.
—That´s laudable.
Why was it essential?
—It was clearly
essential because whatever our imaginative understanding of the demands of that
particular environment in that period of history, we had no practical
understanding of it. And there are people, still today, who really live more in
the 18 century than in the 20 and luckily we were able to spend time with those
people, to learn about the essential skills for life at that time.
—Did it wind up
been much more demanding than you thought it would be?
—I did have my Kentucky rifle in London for a while but it´s true that I didn´t seem to be quite in
keeping with my surrounding.
—Despite your Oscar and the great acclaim that have
come to your way one reads that Daniel
Day-Lewis is “commercially unproven”. Does it bother you? Is this film
going to alter all these?
—It doesn’t
bother me and I have no idea whether it is going to alter it or not…
Traducción,
plis!
Básicamente Daniel
dice que leyó el libro después de una conversación que tuvo con Michael Mann, que fue lo que esperaba.
ü que
la película no sigue escrupulosamente la historia contada por el escritor James Fenimore Cooper.
ü que
Mann quería introducir sus
pensamientos acerca del choque de culturas.
ü que
el entrenamiento que tuvieron en el bosque fue fundamental para entender cómo
vivían en el siglo 18.
ü y
que no le molesta que no sea considerado un actor taquillero.
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del archivo: The Last of the Mohicans
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