phew love”Ultra-violent romantic musical comedyIt was under these conditions that Gilles Lelouch’s film was announced on the very first “teaser poster” of the project.
Since the release of the feature film, we know that Gilles Lelouch wanted a film with strong emotional scenes, but also violence. The director draws a lot of inspiration from American cinema, especially Scorsese, Coppola and Tarantino. Cinematic culture that he wanted to incorporate into the script and went so far as to enter the register near horror cinema.
As we learn in Eric Libiot’s book, Pooh Love, The Movie DiaryGilles Lelouch has long imagined a terrifying scene with the combine! The director wanted a violently awesome scene in the style of Journey to the End of Hell, The Witcher, or even the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
But as Eric Libiot points out, “This scene does not exist“.”It was not filmed. He’s not even in the final script. Deleted by force. Cut into bunches. well done and yet…
Audrey Divan, co-writer of the film: ” As Gilles envisioned the novel over the years, he created images, scenes, sequences that he imagined at a given moment in the script. For example, on the combine. He’s not in the novel, but he wanted to film it. This scene then becomes a conundrum: how can we make sure that we can write it so that it is coherent in the story, that it justifies the behavior, perhaps the emotion? »
First there was the period of Scorsese and Tarantino: fights and blood flowed on every page. And then Gilles came back
So the scene was there, laid out on the table, and there was no escaping it. But he ended up escaping because Clotter was too passive and Tony too active. As the work sessions on the script developed, the choice became clearer: only the first part of the book was preserved – the childhood of Jack and Clotter, their meeting, their love story. The second part, the separate family life of the two, is removed. Because the common thread of the story has emerged after trying thousands of paths: it is the love story of Jack and Clotter. All the scenes with one and the other and, obviously, with the one and the other, relate to and resonate with this love story. point. Basta.
Jaws… Agricultural
That is, perhaps, except that this road took a long time to be concreted. A few weeks, a few months. First there was the period of Scorsese and Tarantino: fights and blood flowed on every page. And then Gilles came back: ” There are too many. We have to tell the story of violence from the human level. A love story will bring you back to the right place. » It is literally impossible to say at what moment a nugget is discovered in a pile of mud, for which all hopes are golden. The script work sessions are exciting or banal as the case may be.“
There was a character in underwear that glowed with the headlights of a combine.
in the videoNew ObsGilles Lelouch provides additional details, “I hurt the heads of my authors, everyone’s heads with this story at the combine, and I did well not to shoot at the end, because there was a small part that I missed during editing.
I’ve actually wanted to do some sort of agricultural jaws for a while. There was a running figure in his underwear, illuminated by the headlights of a combine harvester. His hands were tied and he was running in the wheat field. The harvester that was behind him and was moving forward to death. And one of the producers said to me, “You’re going a little too far with the violence.” But I’m sure visually it would make for a crazy scene. It is possible that I will do it in another film, which will have no connection and which will probably be called Combine!“
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Source: Allocine

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