A year ago, I think at this time, I was in my house watching the film Lightning Over Water, co-directed by Wim Wenders and Nicholas Ray. Many were the rivers of ink spills on your day around this film, accusing him of being a morbid and complacent year in which Wenders took advantage of the terminal illness of Ray to see catapulted his career as a filmmaker, looking for an easy success is not without controversial.
I think the time has finished putting each one in its place, and Lightning Over Water is one of the greatest acts of love that have been made for film. Tonight they wanted to talk about how, unexpectedly, this movie changed my life completely, and ended up triggering something that had been brewing for some time on my interior.
For those unfamiliar with the film or the figure of Nicholas Ray, said that in his day was one of the highest paid directors in Hollywood, thanks to blockbusters such as Rebel Without a Cause or King of kings. Over time, Ray was gradually falling into alcoholism, which coupled with its tumultuous personality earned him many problems when you can get out their projects. Little by little, he built a reputation for controversial director, rowdy during filming, exasperating than a producer and more than two. So much so that ended up being dismissed on the set of 55 days in Beijing, reaching no conclusion to his career in any film, although his love of cinema led him to try to get aheadother projects not without ambition.
For someone who so loved the movies, because as I said Jean Luc Godard, cinema is Nicholas Ray, it was very painful to have to go out the back door in such a way, and more someone who had reached the top of the top, giving birth to one of the most legendary film history, part of popular culture today, Rebel Without a Cause.
Over the years, Nicholas Ray managed to leave his problem with alcohol, after several years of rehabilitation. But life was not going to let you relax as soon after she was diagnosed with stomach cancer, which started the countdown to his death. Nicholas Ray
only dreamed of directing another film before his death, workMLXC
But all this planning was in vain, for Nicholas Ray end up getting much worse, a passing from death, and began recording what was taking the form of a documentary about the agonizing suffering and Ray disease. This is where Wenders began to feel sick, feel that what I did was not right, he asked Ray to please stop. And here is where Nicholas Ray demonstrated its infinite vitality, his deep love of cinema, which was more powerful than life (to paraphrase the title of another of his films). I loved both movies, which even his own death would make a movie, even if acting in agony, writhing in pain. Nicholas Ray
pass away during the filming of this experiment cross-fictionagreed by the unwavering strength when fighting for their dreams of Nicholas Ray, I decided that even if the last thing I do, I hand over my life to cinema, to the last breath.
And now I am immersed in that fight, taking projects forward, closer to caress my goal. Was this premonition that drove me to the movies or my approach to cinema that triggered the prophecy?.
just know that thanks to Nicholas Ray, decided that ..... I want to be a flash in water.
