“I love it HollywoodHollywood that doesn’t love me‘ said the filmmaker Neil Jordan before receiving the Master Of Cinema award at the opening gala of the Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest this Monday in Palma.
The Irish director received this award for his film career. on the 30th anniversary of the most awarded filma, ‘Game of Tears’, for which it won the Best Screenplay Oscar in 1993 and where Jordan will attend a special screening.
Despite the prize of the Mallorca festivaln, Jordan doesn’t consider himself a movie master, a definition that others can attribute to you but cannot give you.
“There’s also the irony that today they’re rewarding and celebrating you on the one hand, and it’s very difficult to run the business on the other hand,” Jordan said in an interview where he explained this at the cinema. , in general, teenagers are always preferred, so The older you get, the harder it gets to make movies.
“The truth is that Hollywood they love people like me but then they don’t know what to do with them. Today, together with Marvel, they choose young directors and give them a budget of $ 200,000 million,” and criticized the director, who thinks that this practice brings income to the industry, but “no benefit” to other filmmakers.
“I think there is definitely a crisis in the movie world.. I don’t know if everyone likes Marvel, but my style of film definitely only exists online today.”He retained his directorship.
this is one of the reasons the filmmaker accepted this festival invitationBecause he thinks Film, the platform that introduced them, is a good example of independent online cinema, where directors and screenwriters have projects just like in their early days.
Regarding the “Game of Tears”, Jordan assured: he stated that he would never do a “remake” and that it would be impossible to shoot this movie today because the world is different, Although the topic of transsexuality is more lively and active than ever before.
“Things that mattered at that time were questioned: male or female, white or black, Irish or English. He questioned whether these tags we hung around our necks identify us.”
The Irish director also talked about his next movie.MarloweIt’s about a seemingly simple challenge that will have to confront private detective Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler’s literary classic, set to hit theaters before Christmas.
Jordan reported that the feature film was largely shot in Spain, specifically in and around Barcelona.Where the Los Angeles of 1938 was recreated.
“Los Angeles is a city that likes to destroy everything about the past. The Los Angeles of 1938 is gone, so I had to find a place where I could reproduce that period, which architecturally has a style we call Spanish-Mediterranean,” explains the producer.