00:00www.mesmerism.info
00:13www.mesmerism.info
00:14What makes a good love story?
00:15I don't know.
00:16It's just people getting lost in each other.
00:18Someone finding the best aspects of themselves
00:20in the presence of another person.
00:23And when everything else disappears.
00:25Like nothing matters anymore.
00:27Yeah.
00:27Really the core of the film is this story of
00:30being saved by love
00:33and for love, I suppose.
00:36And that love can overcome many negatives,
00:39you know, it's an inspiring thing for everybody.
00:41The thought that, you know,
00:42love transcends everything.
00:45I mean, there is a love story that spans
00:46centuries, and it's a story of lost love.
00:49But it's so insanely romantic.
00:52I loved that.
00:56If you didn't love me now,
00:58no one ever will.
01:07Beverly.
01:09Her name was Beverly.
01:20Winter's Tale, the novel,
01:21I tried for years to figure out how to manage a screen adaptation.
01:27Because Mark's book is big.
01:30You know, it's closer to a thousand pages than a hundred and twenty that we get in screenplay form.
01:35The book is so rich in detail,
01:38and so rich in the amount of characters that play within it.
01:41I know Akiva distilled it down to a very particular thing,
01:44and that is the love story between Beverly and Peter,
01:46and how that affects the lives of every single character.
01:50Beverly and Peter's meeting,
01:51which Mark Halpern wrote so beautifully in the novel,
01:54is a very novelistic experience.
01:57It's one thing to write
01:58They Fell In Love At First Sight.
02:00It's another thing to do it,
02:02and it's really Colin and Jessica who did it.
02:04Beverly, I think by not having fear of I suppose the most terrifying thing,
02:09you know, the idea of death and what happens,
02:12most other things don't scare her in a way that they probably should.
02:16And so she sort of has this clarity about life rather than thinking,
02:20what's going to happen in the, I don't know, something like that.
02:23She's just crystalline in her clarity.
02:26And I'm breaking into her house and stealing things.
02:28Yeah.
02:29Yeah, that's how we meet.
02:30Yeah, yeah, so I break into her dad's house, right,
02:31because she's loaded and she has a big gaff there in Central Park.
02:34Yeah.
02:34And I break in because I think there's nobody home.
02:36And I hear this music.
02:40Squeaks.
02:42What?
02:47Squeaks.
02:47Cut! Cut!
02:49Winter's Tale spans the earliest part of the 20th century all the way to the present.
02:55Part of what's important in Winter's Tale is the idea of history and the notion that maybe time doesn't quite
03:01work exactly the way we think it does,
03:02or at least that the past and present are closer than we imagine.
03:06Because part of what I want to try to sell is the idea of past and present being somewhat interchangeable.
03:13Don't pay attention to what year it is. It's all kind of the same.
03:16We're very fortunate to actually get to shoot our film all over the city of New York and all the
03:21boroughs.
03:22Winter's Tale is such a New York object. It is so much about the city. The city is a character.
03:28I find that it's unique.
03:30There's much of New York that existed in the early of the 20th century that still exists today.
03:36There's something really special about that city. And for this story, the fact that it starts, you know, it spores
03:43over that time.
03:44It's a city that over, you know, a hundred years has just grown and flourished and become something that no
03:51one could imagine.
03:52And that's sort of what love is, really. You can never predict what it's going to become.
03:56New York's kind of like the perfect example of the potential for human beings to coexist together,
04:00because it's eight million people of so many different races and creeds and beliefs and ideals.
04:04And the island should be drowning in the Atlantic under the weight of human conflict.
04:09And yet people coexist really peacefully. And I suppose that's one of the essences of love is the idea of
04:13coexistence,
04:14of coexisting in harmony with your fellow man or woman or whatever it may be.
04:18So in that way, New York felt like a perfect backdrop.
04:21Somebody said to me, what's it like to make a movie and to be able to do everything you plan?
04:27And I thought, well, that's not at all what it's like to make a movie.
04:30The making of a movie is the interaction between what you imagined and the real world.
04:36And the same is true of love. I mean, yes, there is love without compromise, but you will do it
04:40by yourself.
04:41It's about interaction. It's about how your expectations and your imaginings line up with what is actually in front of
04:48you.
04:48You know, at the heart of Winter's Tale is true love. True love for all its infinite possibilities and disappointment.
04:56The truth of the movie is Peter and Beverly end up together, just not in the way you might imagine.
05:01You know, what Akiva wrote that somehow there's balance and the balance is achieved sometimes not within our own lifetimes,
05:08but over several lifetimes. And in this case, Peter like thought that fulfillment was going to happen with Beverly
05:14and that he was going to be able to save her. But really, that's not what it meant.
05:18It meant that their love was so powerful that he would be able to stay alive to do the thing
05:22that he was meant to do,
05:23which wasn't the thing that he maybe would have chosen. But somehow still, it was the thing that was right.
05:28I think love stories are what led us continue on in the face of all kinds of adversity.
05:33It is that which draws us through life. It's the hope for the belief in the memory of true love
05:40that makes us human, I think.
05:43That's what the movie believes anyway.
05:47Its voice is funny.
05:48If the mind of this spiritual vision could be made, it's that in theivamente miracles you see if so.
05:50It's the next one.
05:58Look for what it means.
05:59You can't see any moreital nueva that horrific jackets are often for didn't exist.
06:04Everything cannot alive anymore.
Commenti