{"id":605447,"date":"2024-01-20T18:20:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T15:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/sundance-steven-soderbergh-reveals-the-auteur-rule-he-broke-to-make-ghost-story-presence\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T18:20:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T15:20:35","slug":"sundance-steven-soderbergh-reveals-the-auteur-rule-he-broke-to-make-ghost-story-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/sundance-steven-soderbergh-reveals-the-auteur-rule-he-broke-to-make-ghost-story-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"#Sundance: Steven Soderbergh Reveals the Auteur Rule He Broke to Make Ghost Story \u2018Presence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Steven Soderbergh was convinced that films shot with a first person point-of-view simply would never work. That is, until he made one. <\/p>\n

\n The veteran filmmaker arrived in Park City for the 40th Sundance Film Festival this weekend to show off the results, a spooky ghost story titled Presence<\/em> shot entirely from the ghost\u2019s perspective. During the post-premiere Q&A, he explained why he backtracked on his edict. <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI\u2019ve been very vocal about the fact that [visual reality], one person point-of-view VR doesn\u2019t work, is never going to work as a narrative. Nobody wants this thing on their head. They want to see a reverse angle of the protagonist with an emotion on their face experiencing the thing,\u201d Soderbergh detailed from the front of the Library Theatre after 11 p.m. \u201cI\u2019ve been beating this drum hard for a long time, that it\u2019s never going to work. Then, I\u2019m like, the only way to do it is you never turn around. You never turn around. I\u2019ve been saying for years you have to turn around or it doesn\u2019t work. And now I\u2019m like, or<\/em>\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

\n When he landed on the decision, \u201cit was really fun because there was no other plan, no other plan. That\u2019s it. Live or die with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The film stars Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Callina Liang, Eddy Maday, West Mulholland and Julia Fox, all of whom were on hand at the screening. The plot follows a family who moves into a new home only to recognize an unsettling presence in the house. The story was filmed from the POV of the ghost, with the camera moving throughout the house as the app<\/a>arition. <\/p>\n

\n Soderbergh wore martial arts slippers while sliding around the house \u201cas a ghost\u201d to make as little noise as possible while manning the camera (using at14 mm lens). He said his favorite part of the filmmaking process is the editing, and there were gasps of surprise when Soderbergh revealed that it was a three-week shoot.<\/p>\n

\n He elaborated: \u201c[Editing is] where it\u2019s all happening. There\u2019s no analogous sort of tasks in any other art form. You\u2019re bringing it all together, all the elements. Sound, picture \u2014 it is the best. It\u2019s the reward for being on set. The power of it still amazes me. How you can change the intention of something just by reordering shots or holding them at a certain length, pulling out lines, giving a line to somebody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n His cast was certainly impressed with what he put together. The Sundance screening marked the first time they\u2019d seen the film, and when asked for their reviews, Liu said, \u201cMy body is having a reaction like I wasn\u2019t in the movie.\u201d Added Fox, to big laughs: \u201cI\u2019m traumatized. I hadn\u2019t even read the script, I am gonna be honest. But when Steven calls, I trust him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Later, Liu explained that Soderbergh \u201creally didn\u2019t give us notes\u201d beyond geographical moments. \u201cThere was no extraneous direction,\u201d she said. \u201cTheater was my first love in that way, and it was like going back to that time again.\u201d Sullivan, who plays her husband, agreed. \u201cNo one has ever shot a movie like this before,\u201d the actor said of the shoot, which took place on location in a home in New Jersey. \u201cIt was Steven running up and down the stairs in martial arts slippers trying not to make any noise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The film also marked yet another collaboration between Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp, both of whom were in Park City in 1989, Soderbergh with his career-catapulting Sex, Lies and Videotape<\/em> and Koepp with Apartment Zero<\/em>. (One audience member was overheard saying, \u201cSteven Soderbergh at The Library? What year is this? How cool!\u201d)<\/p>\n

\n Presence<\/em> was one of the festival\u2019s more anticipated titles as it\u2019s available for acquisition and The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> spotted a number of buyers in the audience, including Neon\u2019s Tom Quinn (and several of his top marketing executives), Searchlight\u2019s David Greenbaum and Roadside\u2019s Howard Cohen, among others. <\/p>\n

\n Koepp detailed the origins of Presence<\/em> by saying that the two of them were throwing around ideas when Soderbergh suggested that he defy everything he\u2019d ever said and do this project only from the ghost point of view. \u201cHe wrote a few pages and said, \u2018Here it might look like that.\u2019 I was in right away. I love confinement. I love when a story takes place in one place or a short period of time, or you set up arbitrary rules for yourself that confine you. In that, I feel like you can actually be a lot more creative than having the whole world as your option.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n The other suggestion Soderbergh offered about the family living in the house is that \u201cthey\u2019re really fucked up,\u201d to which Koepp replied, \u201cOh, that sounds interesting \u2026 so that was my guidance. It was like: Point of view of the ghost, I\u2019m in this house, this family\u2019s really fucked up, and I went from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n At the end of the Q&A, Sundance director Eugene Hernandez noted how nostalgic the festival is this year with presenting its 40th edition. As such, he expressed his gratitude to Soderbergh, Koepp and crew for returning to their old stomping grounds. \u201cI hope he won\u2019t mind me saying that when we invited the film, he said he was clutching his pearls with appreciation,\u201d Hernandez explained. \u201cYou\u2019ve been such an important part of the story of this festival and to have you guys, the two of you here on this 35th year of the time you were here with a film for the first time is super meaningful for us. I hope it was rewarding for you to watch it with all of us tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n With that, Soderbergh replied, \u201cIt\u2019s great. Now, if it could all end right now.\u201d And it did.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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