Jim Jarmush Interview.rtf

I thought we as the filmmakers were celebrating input, celebrating the variety of human expression, celebrating the gifts of human imagination whether it’s in science o music or any art form… or also natural phenomena, like celebrating consciousness So they’ve been alive so long and she (Eve) knows the latin name of any plant or animal. They are very sophisticated people by the fact that they’re been alive so long… and maybe they’re interesting people to start with. So i though we’re celebrating that rather than mourning but also there’s is a yang-yang thing it’s why… Again not to be analytical about the film, but I was conscious that Eve is light and he is dark. Eve is like the sun and he is like the moon. Adam is Romantic, and Eve is kind of Classical, and Eves’s philosophy is positive, and celebrating that consciousness, and Adam is a little bit mournful and a little bit mourning human behavior… And he’s contradictory because he’s mourning human behavior and calling them zombies and yet that “i don’t have any heroes” thing and yet he is filled with heroic human gifts, that the really appreciates, that fuel him in a way…

So I se him as very Romantic so, there’s a little bit of mournfulness

in romanticism that I think he embodies and there’s a more of and absence in it of Eve, who in a way is the stronger one philosophically because she is more like positive about protecting and appreciating ones consciousness.

________ My script had even more references, and when we filmed had more references and there were too many… So it was tricky, because I had to take some things out of the film where it seems as though and some things i loved references i loved In fact there was a reference to the Cohen brothers or Steve Buscemi mentioned by name or I had a whole list of bands from Detroit in a scene where Ian jumps all excited sitting of all these bands that I love. But the problem was there were too many of those things and at some times when its seemed like the characters were telling each others somethings that they already know means that I was telling the audience. So I had for example in the telephone call, there were many more references she made, or remember such and such and you were

hanging out with jones or William Burroughs and you know, well of course he remembers that, so, why I am having her to tall him that? because I am telling the audience, so i had to remove a lot of things where i felt like oh it’s just us telling the audience and that not right, it has to believable they’re telling to each other and there’s still a lot there were about twice as many

at one point it was a little over worked and i dins’t even now I’ve read a few criticisms saying oh is this just jim warmish showing us his arcane knowledge of things? and I knew i don’t wanna puto too many references it gets pretencios but at the same time is sort of the point of the film and honestly i don’t see anything wrong making this references because theiare very valuable and i don’t really mid if i get criticized because our film isn’t stupid enough with is how it felts this one thing i read and by the way i only read if i can only bad reviews of my fimo i love to read the bad ones so i read

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