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“Maestro” is the “Scariest Thing I’ve Ever Done”

2023/11/24
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Bradley Cooper: 本片并非一部传统的伯恩斯坦传记片,而是聚焦于他和妻子菲利西亚之间复杂而充满挑战的婚姻关系。影片通过展现他们之间真挚的爱情、激烈的争吵和不可避免的背叛,深入探讨了两人在面对伯恩斯坦的双性恋身份和非一夫一妻制生活方式时所经历的种种情感纠葛。Cooper 详细描述了电影创作过程中的挑战,包括获得伯恩斯坦子女的信任、克服制片厂的拒绝以及对伯恩斯坦形象的精准刻画。他还分享了自己在拍摄过程中对角色的深入理解和情感投入,以及如何通过声音、肢体语言和情感表达来展现伯恩斯坦不同人生阶段的复杂内心世界。 David Remnick: Remnick 作为访谈者,引导 Cooper 阐述电影创作的初衷、过程以及面临的挑战。他提出了关于电影中对伯恩斯坦个人生活、婚姻关系以及公众形象等方面的诸多问题,并与 Cooper 展开了深入的探讨。Remnick 也对电影中一些关键场景,例如伯恩斯坦与妻子的争吵、与女儿的对话以及他指挥伦敦交响乐团的场景进行了评论和分析,并对 Cooper 的表演和导演技巧给予了高度评价。

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Bradley Cooper traces his passion for conducting back to his childhood, recalling how he mimed conducting an orchestra and asked Santa for a baton.

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As a child, Bradley Cooper would mime conducting an orchestra, and he asked for a baton from Santa. Decades later, as a filmmaker, he fulfilled his childhood dreams in the acclaimed new film “Maestro.” Cooper co-wrote and directed the movie, and co-stars as Leonard Bernstein, perhaps the greatest American conductor ever. In a pivotal scene, Cooper conducts the famous London Symphony Orchestra with a full chorus, in real time, through a performance of Mahler, which Cooper calls the “scariest thing I’ve ever done.” But the movie focusses less on Bernstein’s well-documented musical triumphs than on his extremely complicated personal life and marriage—as a proudly nonmonogamous bisexual—to the actress Felicia Montealegre, who is played in the film by Carey Mulligan. “I had no desire to make a biopic,” Cooper tells David Remnick, especially of a man whose life is so well documented. Despite his proven track record as a box-office draw and critical success, Cooper found himself on the receiving end of noes  from major studios when he shopped “Maestro” around. “It makes sense what they [said],” Cooper concedes: “ ‘It’s a huge budget. It’s a subject matter that no one will be interested in. We just can’t justify it.’ ” With rave reviews and a holiday release setting his film up for a likely awards-season run, Cooper should feel vindicated. “This movie… I made absolutely fearlessly,” Cooper says. “And I knew I had to because that’s a huge element in Bernstein’s music. It is fearless.”