“If you don’t go to the buttocks in this chair, you will die!” : How did Ragtime director James Kagney retire

Adaptation of El Doctorow’s bestseller, Ragtime is a powerful and late filmmaker’s powerful work, which was a Milos Forman, which takes a clear and sometimes brutal view of its newly adopted country, the United States. The film, which has repeatedly had a monumental fresco, was once in the air in the IL in America, which will be two years later. Before actress Elizabeth McGverni elsewhere, which we find in exactly these two films.

Ragtime is a story of an African American pianist, Coalhouse Walker Jr., who is a young man, a victim of injustice from whites who do not take it to the wheel of a new car. Everyone around him helps him not to poison the situation. But he cannot agree to see his rights and nourish his deepest aspiration to receive paid for sudden damage. After the death of his bride, a terrible speed is turned on …

If Milos Forman’s film is often criticized because it is very impersonal, Ragte remains one of the most powerful films that describes American society in the late 20th century, in particular its sharpness, between racial segregation and classes. Although it also results in the birth of “Ragtime” in Filigran, the musical genre born in the US in 1890/1895, which became the main source of jazz influence.

Wearing an emotional charge that can divide the stones into two, especially thank the Howard E. Huge actor, James Kagney, commissioner in Rinelander Walt.

In 2007 Milos Forman told A very moving interview How he managed to convince Kagani that he had a retirement. And it was a challenge. Because at the time, the actor not only played for twenty years, but also refused all the offers without differences.

“If you haven’t run away from your buttocks from your chair, you will die!”

“Dino de laurentiis Tell me “At least one star needs a movie in Europe!” And I already had my actual actress. So I asked Jack Nicholson If he wants to play a small role in him, he will. But after the message, I get a little bit and tell me that he cannot.

At this time, I met James Kagney, in New York at dinner, not far away where he lived. He has not worked for 20 years. Fifteen days later, he invited me to his house in his house, he had already forgotten who I was. He asks me what I’m doing, I answer him that I am a director, especially the film he might have seen Contempt.

Then he looked at me -and I would like to emphasize that there was no explanation of his career in his house, neither his Oscar nor the photo, nothing -and he went to the closet, publishes the item and gives him to tell me, “I have never seen it. I have never seen it. I have never seen it. I don’t know why we’ve been in 1979.

Marge Zimmerman, his assistant, began: “James, you have to make a Milos movie, because the doctors will tell you that if you don’t get out of your buttocks from your chair, you will die!” James replied, “Ah? Okay, I will do it then, but only if I do not sign a contract and I can change my mind to three days before shooting.”

So I came back to see Dino telling us that we had our star, James Kagney, but he wouldn’t sign a contract. I couldn’t tell him that I promised James that he would have the right to change his mind three days before the shooting. We couldn’t get on the plane for James London, he never got a plane. So we have to bring it to the boat, Queen Elizabeth II, with her husband and family. I started nervous, I said to myself, “What if it changes my mind?”

“The tears began to stream on the cheeks”

Form Continues his story : “James was also increasingly nervous. He was 81 years old. He was very ill.

The tears began on her cheeks. Then he turned around and said, “Yes, I’m going to make this movie!” I am convinced that if this moving sequence did not arrive, he would panic and tell me he could not make a movie. He assessed how much he and his works were appreciated in Europe. “

A very moving anecdote about a huge actor who left a lasting print in the history of cinema. We can’t do a beautiful cinematic epitaph.