“Two hours, I’m sweaty”: Big blue first projection is almost very bad for an astonishing reason

Getting a very cold press preserved for the big blue during the 1988 skin presentation is a secret to everyone. The response of the morning protection for journalists was really icy, which deeply affected Luke Besson (which Gerard Lanvin was hated about filming).

In Interview has just been given to our colleagues in legendThe director, whose Dracula is currently in theaters, has returned to a particularly painful day. “J.I remember going to a hotel and people who push themselves. You feel gas. You have a coil. The people I know and turn my head “Recalls Luke Besson. “It was an explosion. They really killed the film immediately, from 9am …”

“Picture! Hey, picture!”

After its great blue critical acceptance, which was scheduled to open the festival, Luke Besson was probably expected at a more mild moment with an official evening show. But chaotic was the least to say that a rather crazy event was taken “Sweat” For two hours.

“The projection begins. And after three minutes, because it is 35 millimeters, there is a picture that is slowly growing, you have a black bar and you start to see the next picture. There, sweat … “Continues a filmmaker who is still in the legend microphone. “I say to myself” Damn, but what’s going on? “And there are two people who create” image! Hey, picture! “And there, I see a guy who blows everyone in a row to come and see me and say” Och, Och, Och … “” “

And Besson to continue this crazy anecdote story: “This is a projectionist guy who tells me” Mr. Besson, the projector’s side valve is red 1, so it’s my boy with a finger. What are we doing? Do we stop and go to everything else where we continue? ” “

“When he changed his finger, there was a picture that went up and then drained”

“I take three, four boys there.Makes the Director. “And during the whole movie, there was a boy who had a finger on the cursor, and every time he changed his finger, there was a picture that went back and then stepped back.

Finally, the big blue official projection is done correctly (except for Besson), “A permanent ovation that lasts sufficiently long”As the director defines. “And it was a real audience. The evening, strangely, is going very well. There are lots of people who come to see me and who tells me to be incredible. It is wonderful. Suddenly, we had such a hot/cold where we knew more about what to think …”

After this crazy day of May 11, 1988, who will see the big blue blue -emanate and then touched on a disaster in the projection of his event, Luke Besson will have the satisfaction a few days later to see his work recognized by the public. The generation film, led by Jean-Marc Bar, Jean Reno and Rosana Arket, has attracted more than six million spectators in the hexagonal rooms.

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