Mr. Turner | movie | 2014 | Official Featurette - video Dailymotion

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Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner  lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside | dG1feXAyQUtLN3Zxb3c

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00:10 My little lagger drawer, I thought he could read and write.

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00:18 Guys, they're all, I don't know.

00:20 You're still making your nice little pictures, Mr. Turner.

00:23 [LAUGH]

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00:27 Whenever a person was born with a pencil or a piece of chalk in his hand,

00:31 it was Turner, because he was painting from almost, since he could hold anything,

00:35 he was drawing things.

00:36 And he worked and worked and worked and worked until he became so good,

00:40 he's never been bettered.

00:42 He turned up a massive amount of work, and his life was long and complicated.

00:47 So it took a long time to get your head around it, really.

00:49 You know, I'd like to vary from film to film to film.

00:53 One year is as different from Happy Go Lucky as another year is from this.

00:58 It is a departure for his films in recent years, but of course,

01:02 he did make Topsy Turvy, which I was involved in as well,

01:05 which dealt with Gilbert and Sullivan and that Victorian London theatrical life.

01:10 But it is a kind of hybrid form of working, because you sort of do the same process,

01:16 if you like, of creating the character, but it has to fit in with historically,

01:20 what that character actually was.

01:22 The people in it were historical figures, so the research was slightly different,

01:27 that you were researching an actual person that lived and died in the Georgian period.

01:33 What we were doing here was trying to create a character based on real people again,

01:38 and bring him towards the character that we knew,

01:40 and we were discovering as we researched Turner in depth.

01:44 What he was like as a human being, many people had different many views of him.

01:49 Some said he was mean, some said he was generous, some said he was funny,

01:52 some said he was miserable, some said he was cruel, some said he was kind.

01:56 Well, it was brilliant. I had worked with Tim in Topsy Turvy,

01:59 but never had any close scenes, and I knew that this would happen.

02:04 I was just so excited about working with him, because he is kind of a master of improvisation.

02:09 Mike had talked to him ages and ages ago, and he has always had Tim in mind to play this part.

02:14 Before we actually raised the money, we talked to Tim and said we would like him to do it.

02:18 And so he has been with us all the way through the process.

02:20 He is a great character actor, he is a Londoner, he knows working class characters, which Turner is.

02:25 Also, he has read a lot of Dickens and things, he is good at 19th century.

02:29 So, anyway, he is the obvious man for the job, and he has delivered the goods, as far as I am concerned.

02:34 Mike Lee set me the task of learning how to paint, which I did for two years with a very brilliant guy.

02:40 And he gave me a foundation course, a fine art foundation course,

02:44 and then we started to work towards how we thought Turner painted.

02:48 You read, you research, you get it into your bloodstream, and then you do the business.

02:52 I mean, you can read a million books, but that doesn't make it happen in front of the camera.

02:55 You have got to bring it to life.

02:57 The universe is chaotic, and you make us see it.

03:05 You are a man of great vision, Mr. Turner.

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