• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

lifestyle THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 Music & Movies Fall Movie Preview Spielberg plunges into the Cold War he nearly three year wait since Steven Spielberg’s last movie goes the way of the Western. It doesn’t mean there movie (2012’s “Lincoln”) comes to an end this October won’t be another occasion where the Western comes back and Twith the spy thriller “Bridge of Spies.” Good news for the superhero movie someday returns. Of course, right now moviegoers: There won’t be another gap like that for a while. the superhero movie is alive and thriving. I’m only saying that Having just locked “Bridge of Spies,” Spielberg is already editing these cycles have a finite time in popular culture. There will his next film, Roald Dahl’s “The BFG,” and is in pre-production come a day when the mythological stories are supplanted by on “Ready Player One,” a sci-fi adventure from Ernest Cline’s some other genre that possibly some young filmmaker is just best-seller. It’s a pace that Spielberg, 68, says he plans to con- thinking about discovering for all of us. tinue. “I’m doing a long stretch of directing over the next several AP: Were you surprised by the success of “Jurassic World,” years,” Spielberg says. “We put our last child into college. on which you were an executive producer? Number seven went to college last week and (wife Kate Spielberg: I’m back in the dinosaur business, it appears. We Capshaw) and I are enjoying the empty nest. It gives her a promised them more teeth and they rewarded us for it. I would chance to get more involved with her art - she’s a wonderful have been ecstatic if we had done what the town was expect- painter - and it gives me a chance to direct movies back to ing, which was a $100 million three-day weekend. That would back now.” “Bridge of Spies,” due out Oct. 16, is a new chapter in have just made my whole year. But the fact that it did over history for Spielberg and one he knows personally: the Cold twice what the prognosticators were predicting, it just blew War. Tom Hanks stars as James Donovan, a lawyer the CIA me away. recruited to rescue a spy pilot downed in the Soviet Union. In a recent interview while taking a break from editing “The In this image released by DreamWorks II Distribution Co, Filmmaker Steven Spielberg poses at the Museum of AP: “Bridge of Spies” is the first film in years you’ve made BFG,” the director spoke about making the true-life tale, the Tom Hanks portrays Brooklyn lawyer James Donovan in a Natural History before the Ambassadors For Humanity wXithout John Williams composing the score. unexpected success of “Jurassic World” and his distaste for scene from the Steven Spielberg film, ‘Bridge of Spies.’ Gala in New York. — AP photos Spielberg: Johnny Williams will be back to do “The BFG.” We’ve superhero movies. only not worked together twice in 42 years. The first one was white flash and being atomized. I was very, very aware of what war-crime trials who was called upon to defend an alleged “The Color Purple” in 1985 and the second time was because a tentative and insecure time it was, especially for young peo- Soviet spy, and the kind of charged atmosphere he was willing AP: What attracted you to “Bridge of Spies”? Johnny had a small medical procedure that precluded him ple. It’s something that made a big impression on me as a kid. to endure to see justice served. It’s a story about a very right- Spielberg: I’ve always wanted to make a spy movie. This is not from writing and scoring my movie in the window that he was We were shown instructional 16mm films of what to do in the eous, principled individual - and for Tom Hanks, it’s right up his James Bond. Only James Bond can be James Bond. I’ve always going to do it. He’s fine, he’s 100 percent back to work on “Star event of the air raid sirens going off or seeing the flash and alley. been fascinated with the entertainment value of the James ducking and covering under your desk and holding, hopefully, Wars,” but it sadly precluded him from working on “Bridge of Bond spy series of movies, as well as the serious John le Carre Spies.” I was able to work with Thomas Newman, who I’m a a very large book over your head. AP: This is your fourth film with him. spy novels, especially the Martin Ritt movie “The Spy Who huge fan of. This is just a blip and we’re both sad about it, but Spielberg: Every collaboration is better than the one before. Came in From the Cold.” Also spy pictures like “The Quiller we’re excited to get back together for “BFG” now. — AP AP: Do you see a connection between that time and today? We’re having a great time together. Memorandum” and “The Ipcress File,” and “Torn Curtain” by Spielberg: There’s so much relevance between the late ‘50s Hitchcock in the ‘60s. and today. We fly drones today; they flew U2 spy planes over AP: You caused a stir two years ago when you predicted Soviet Russia in the ‘50s. Our story is also about the shooting Hollywood was headed toward an “implosion” because of AP: Were you interested in making a film set during the down of Gary Powers’ U2 and the apprehension of a Soviet spy the over-abundance of mega-budget movies. Do you still Cold War? working in this country for over a decade: Rudolph Abel. And feel that way? Spielberg: I lived through the Cold War and I was very aware the negotiator - a fish-out-of-water - an insurance attorney Spielberg: I do. I still feel that way. We were around when the of the possibility of walking down the street and seeing a who used to be the associate prosecutor at the Nuremberg Western died and there will be a time when the superhero Teen aims to revive Quechua, one song at a time enata Flores Rivera has teenage cuteness, a Bob Marley, Alicia Keys phonetically,” she said. velvety voice and a mission: to revive the Around 3.6 million of Peru’s 30 million people She translated “The Way You Make Me Feel” with RQuechua language with songs like speak Quechua, particularly in the highlands. the help of her 72-year-old grandmother, Ada. She is “Chaynatam ruwanki cuyanaita”-better known as Another 4.4 million people speak it in Ecuador, working on another song that will feature the tradi- “The Way You Make Me Feel.” Flores, a 14-year-old Bolivia, Argentina, Colombia and Brazil. In Peru, it is tional Andean music known as huayno. “I want from the Peruvian highlands, has racked up more an official language, alongside Spanish. But experts than a million views since posting her cover of the have been warning for years that social stigma could Michael Jackson hit on YouTube on July 27. eventually endanger its survival. “For young people, The sleek video features the almond-eyed high Quechua is synonymous with backwardness and Renata Flores Rivera schooler, sporting a jean jacket, a schoolgirl skirt and poverty, because the colonial mentality of discrimi- a Peruvian hat with earflaps, performing the song nation, contempt and racism still persists in Peru,” against the backdrop of the ruins of Vilcashuaman, said Elena Burga, the head of an education ministry an ancient Incan administrative center. She made program to promote bilingual education. Singer Ruby Amanfu appears during an interview in the video as part of a campaign called “Young peo- She said more funding is needed to protect and Nashville, Tenn. — AP ple speak Quechua too,” which aims to combat per- promote the language. The campaign that Flores ceptions of the indigenous language as unhip and sings for was launched by her mother, Patricia Known for her backwards. Rivera, a 41-year-old music teacher. “This project Quechua, the language of the Incas, has faced came about because we realized our children were such stigmatization since Spanish conquistadors no longer speaking our language,” said Rivera. “We duets, Amanfu steps colonized Peru in the 16th century. “I sing in older people speak nicely. We tell jokes that sound Quechua as a voice of warning, because the lan- funnier in Quechua than in Spanish and our children young people to not just identify with the melodies guage is being lost. Children and young people are weren’t enjoying it as much.” but with their roots,” said Jorge Flores, one of the into solo spotlight ashamed to speak it. They think only poor people She called Quechua a language that “sounds musicians in the garage band that accompanies her. in the Andes mountains speak it,” said Flores, who lovely, a language to woo your lover.” Others work- They will give a concert on September 11 in uby Amanfu knows how to share the stage, but during a lives in Huamanga, the capital of the Ayacucho ing to boost the language include hard rock band Huamanga featuring Quechua covers of songs by recent dinner party in Nashville, Tennessee, she was the region in southern Peru. “We did this in Quechua so Uchpa and language teacher Demetrio Tupac Bob Marley, Alicia Keys and of course the King of Rstar of the stage and the kitchen as she prepared a meal the world sees that we have an identity and that Yupanqui, who has translated Cervantes’s “Don Pop.

Load more

  1

Copy Link