Brief Encounter

[selenak]

On the notes of: why sometimes dosing yourself up with medication so you can do your duty can be worth it: today in Berlin I met Florian Henckel von Donnersmark, aka the director of The Lives of Others, Das Leben der Anderen, aka my favourite movie in 2006. We talked about Los Angeles, Lion Feuchtwanger (he said he must be the only one to have the

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[selenak]

Well, obviously no matter how bad the situation in the US is today, they're still a democracy, not a dictatorship, and so for example such scenes as Wiesler intimidating the neighbour into silence by the mere hint about her daughter's place at the university would not work in just that way. However, change the neighbour to an illegal immigrant or even a legal one waiting for her green card, and you can have a different method of intimidation...

Still, basically an American actress could emigrate and still be able to film, an American writer could go to Canada and still publish in the US, etc., so yes, the level of what's at stake would be different. I'm curious how they'll pull it off but at least I am curious, whereas before like you, I was dreading the remake.

F.H. v. D: no, not at all. Aside from the remake question, which was my own, we didn't talk about himself in any context but about a lot of other subjects. Well, about his children a bit. But then, you know, the press likes clichés. If you're a director and successful, you're an egomaniac.