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The Vanishing TF CLASSIC THE VANISHING SPOILER ALERT THE Classic V ANISHING Renowned for its unforgettable ending – and unwatchable Hollywood remake – this traumatic Dutch chiller was forged in a fire of ego and genius, during a production that mirrored its on-screen intensity. Total Film unearths a tale of mafia money, fist fights and premature burial… WORDS MATT GLASBY >> >> 102 | Total Film | July 2016 Subscribe at www.totalfilm.com/subs gamesradar.com/totalfilm July 2016 | Total Film | 103 TFM246.feat_vanishing.indd 100 4/20/16 6:53 PM TFM246.feat_vanishing.indd 101 4/20/16 6:53 PM TF CLASSIC THE VANISHING CLOSE UP The Vanishing, The Remake go against the system.” Then he cut back on down in a tunnel while oncoming vehicles ou start with an idea in your head and you (1993) film stock, negatives, shooting days – even crew scream past them (the glowing lights evoking take a step, then a second. Soon you realise Stalked prey: Lemorne members. “There [were] no concessions made on the Golden Egg dream; the tunnel, their later you’re up to your neck in something intense lays in wait for Saskia. Neutered beyond all recognition by studio story or acting, but on everything else there were entombment), saw the actors braving but that doesn’t matter. You keep at it for the mandate, Sluizer’s US remake has become compromises,” he said. “I told everybody, as the temperatures of -10 degrees in their summer sheer pleasure of it. For the satisfaction it might a byword for Hollywood butchery. Starring producer, if I catch anyone driving less than clothes. “It was freezing,” recalls Bervoets. “But bring you…” These are the words of Raymond Jeff Bridges in the Lemorne role and Kiefer 80mph in town they’re going to get fired. This when we saw the rushes, the whole scene was Lemorne, family man, science teacher and Sutherland as his victim, it cost 10 times was a joke, but it meant we had not a fucking blurred like pea soup. Bernard-Pierre shouted at unrepentant double murderer, but they could the Dutch version, but played out like second to lose.” the cameraman, Toni Kuhn, ‘There’s two young refer to any of the firebrands who brought this Breakdown, complete with a happy ending people in the car for hours in -10 degrees and you haunting Hitchcockian drama to the screen. in which Kiefer escapes and Bridges is killed. “I WANT YOU TO KNOW, let them do those things without getting the Indeed, as Total Film spoke to The Vanishing’s cast “Fox wanted the bad guy punished by the FOR ME KILLING IS NOT shot?’ Toni laughed a bit and then Bernard-Pierre and crew, director/adapter George Sluizer, police or by having a car accident,” said THE WORST THING” just hit him, he fought him, and Toni’s ear was novelist/scriptwriter Tim Krabbé and lead actor Sluizer, who removed a scene showing With a breakneck schedule, a belligerent star and pierced inside so he couldn’t hear anymore. From Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu are all compared to Lemorne caught by police from the original. a director/producer/writer/location scout with a that moment on all the shots of Bernard-Pierre Lemorne, a man who – lest we forget – drugs and “He was not allowed to live having holistic approach to his work, the shoot soon took were shot by the assistant, because Toni didn’t kidnaps a young woman, Saskia (Johanna ter committed a crime. That’s not part of its toll on cast and crew. “There were moments want to shoot with him anymore.” Steege), buries her alive, then does the same to American cinema. There has to be an when I thought, ‘I have to get out of here, this is Although it seethes with implied violence, her distraught partner, Rex (Gene Bervoets), upbeat ending.” Krabbé is a little more not normal!’” recalls Bervoets, who barely had the film only erupts into action once, when three years later, just to see if he can. succinct. “It’s trash. It’s not an adaptation a handful of film credits to his name at that point. Lemorne’s Faustian offer to Rex – follow me and “Well,” says Bervoets of his director, with of the book – they could have had the “One day I just ran away. We were shooting in find out what happened to Saskia – is met with a some affection, “it’s a little bit of a harsh word, ingredients they kept for free: the kidnap France, George had a little house there, and I was flurry of impotent blows. “At that moment George but he’s a maniac.” Said the late Sluizer (who and the burial of the girl [Sandra Bullock]. so fed up I got out of the car and started walking said, ‘Just attack him!’” recalls Bervoets. “I said, died in 2014) of his writer: “I’m not going to say But the real idea I can claim any originality until I was all alone, in the middle of nowhere. ‘I can’t do that, let’s rehearse.’ Normally you Lemorne has some of Tim Krabbé’s character, for is that the hero dies just to know what They had to come and look for me. At that rehearse a scene like that. I just can’t beat a guy, but he does [laughs]… I’m not saying killing, happened to his love, and that’s what they moment I just thought, ‘I don’t care anymore, especially because Bernard-Pierre was very but he also has an extreme way of thinking.” did not use. They just kept the wrapping and they can do whatever they want.’” strong. Then Bernard-Pierre said, ‘Come on, boy, Says Bervoets of Donnadieu: “Bernard-Pierre they threw out the contents. They raped the It wasn’t the only time Bervoets found himself why don’t you attack me? Attack me! Come on, was like a dictator on set.” Perhaps the greatest story, they raped the whole idea.” out in the cold. An early scene in which the attack me! Oh you’re a sissy, you can’t do it!’ mystery of this methodical puzzle that slots protagonists’ car runs out of petrol and breaks He got me so mad that I just kicked him and >> awfully, inexorably, into place was that (almost) no one was hurt during filming. “It was like shooting a documentary of our lives at that the movie’s better than the book.” Certainly moment,” recalls Bervoets, the only surviving Krabbé’s narrative skill cannot be overestimated Love story: The original actor who could bear to be interviewed for this – the movie pulses with metronomic revelations re-unites the lovers in feature. “I needed people who could open the which double and redouble in significance as we, an alternative way to the Hollywood formula. door to hell and not be afraid to step over the and Rex, establish exactly what has befallen his line…” Sluizer explained. lost love. After the devastating, it-could-happen- to-you sequence in which Dutch holidaymaker “THE BEST PLANS CAN BE WIPED Saskia is snatched by Lemorne at a French OUT AT ANY MOMENT BY WHAT service station, the film then flips back and WE CALL FATE” forward in time, contrasting Rex’s obsessive Based on Krabbé’s 1984 novel The Golden Egg, hunt for the truth with Lemorne’s methodical named after an ominous dream of confinement MO and frighteningly mundane home life. It’s that haunts protagonists Saskia and Rex (not to not so much a thriller – we already have an idea mention the author, aged five), Spoorloos (1988), what’s going to happen – as a grim pantomime as it’s known in its native Holland, was scripted of chance and premeditation. “You can plan and by Krabbé and Sluizer. “We’re both not the plan and plan, but things will always happen easiest persons in the world,” explains the author by themselves,” rues the (remarkably affable) (brother of actor, Jeroen). “I wrote the first author. Turns out this could have been the version and we had some personal difficulties mantra for the entire shoot. and he adapted it. I have forgotten what is mine First Sluizer and Donnadieu clashed during and what is his, which is fine.” As Sluizer rehearsals in France (“Colleagues told me you remembered,“Tim is a very clever writer but he’s won’t finish the film without a broken nose,” not an easy person. I did not want to work with remembered Sluizer of his demanding lead), someone who was blaming me for having which resulted in Donnadieu being sent to stand different opinions. He can be very nasty, you in the corner “like a stupid schoolboy” for know, like wishing you, ‘Oh, you’re stupid, you bullying ter Steege. Then financing from the should die today, better than tomorrow.’” film’s Dutch distributor fell through. “For five Although he missed the premiere, Krabbé days we had zero money, not even enough to was rather more generous when he saw the final buy sandwiches,” recalled the director, whose film. “That is Tim,” said the director, resigned to solution was characteristically extreme. “I went each other’s artistic foibles after 30 years. “He to Nice, to the mafia clubs to try to get money was a monster, I could say, in one way, but he was from thieves and gangsters,” he explained. “You also an honest gentleman because he dared to say might get shot, but at least they have the guts to 104 | Total Film | July 2016 gamesradar.com/totalfilm July 2016 | Total Film | 105 TFM246.feat_vanishing.indd 102 4/20/16 6:53 PM TFM246.feat_vanishing.indd 103 4/20/16 6:53 PM TF CLASSIC THE VANISHING alone: the final reveal, which sees Rex, having (knowingly) drunk Lemorne’s drugged coffee, waking in a makeshift coffin in the black bowels of the earth.
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