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Jacques Behan
The 75-year-old Jacques Behan's life is legendary. He won an Oscar when he succeeded, and he was also in debt when he failed. He has many identities, as an actor, director, producer, producer.
As an actor, Jacques Behan gave many wonderful performances and works in his youth, and at the age of 25, he won the Venetian Film Emperor with "Half a Man". When his acting career was in full swing, he resolutely turned behind the scenes and shot a number of excellent films. What earned him an irreplaceable reputation was his documentary films, "Microscopic World", "Migrating Birds" and "Ocean", three great nature films that have conquered countless fans around the world.
This time, at the Silk Road International Film Festival, every film and television reporter met this great director with all sentient beings in mind. Due to the subject matter, Jacques Behan's works have an average shooting cycle of up to 4 years. And when asked by film and television reporters about the filming cycle of Chinese films today, the best-grossing film in China this year, "Notes from the Tomb Robber", which has only half a year from filming to release, Jacques Behan said that it is not a good evaluation, but he believes that nothing is more important than sincerity in the film.
To make a movie is not to find happiness
From actor to producer and director, Jacques Behan has been doing tough things beyond other people's imagination, and he has gone bankrupt several times to make films, and "Ocean" has cost as much as 50 million euros. But he said he didn't regret ruining his fortune for Ocean. In fact, "Ocean" also set a considerable box office in France, and the box office in Japan even surpassed "Avatar" on the opening day. As for the original intention of making the documentary, he said that once when he read the newspaper, he saw that somewhere the rainforest was disappearing in a large area and a certain species was extinct, but the next day the newspaper changed the topic to another topic, as if it had never happened. So he started thinking about the movie he really wanted to make, which was nature movies.
Poster of The Four Seasons of the Earth
In Jacques Behan's heart, he has always told himself: "Making movies is never about finding happiness, I hope to build a real world in my films, through the recognition and understanding of this world, with a special art form, with more powerful power to influence the audience and change the world." 」 Therefore, filmmaking is always a learning process and a process of overcoming difficulties. ”
Influencing the world and changing the world, such a great mind makes Jacques Behan destined to be different from other directors, he focuses on the nature of heaven and earth, all living things, hides emotions under the picture, and presents a powerful and fragile world of life. He spent three years making Microscopic, four years on Migrating Birds, and five years on Ocean, and he and his team spent a lot of time making nature films, trying to awaken humanity's sense of awe for life.
"A lot of people think it doesn't take so much money to photograph animals, but it's not," he said. I went it alone to find money for a lot of expensive films because I had a strong passion for the subject of animals. So despite several times when he was on the verge of bankruptcy and struggling to find enough money for each film, he persisted in doing things like this for decades.
Jacques Behan said: "I hope that after watching my film, you will understand the emotions of animals, understand the world of animals, and we will fall in love with them." If through the film can make more people love nature and animals, this is the simplest and most direct way, because we love them, we will naturally protect them. ”
To make a movie, you have to be creative enough
Some fans said: "Watching Jacques Behan's films, it is sometimes difficult to even imagine how they got these pictures. How much time, how much mental effort, how much wisdom, how much practice it takes to get such a clear, vivid, and close picture in the deep sea. ”
"During my shooting, I work with a lot of scientists because we need their advice in our shooting, and their research can help us with the shooting process. I left school at 14 and didn't have any academic qualifications, so I didn't know so many things, so I had to work with scientists every time I took a shoot. ”
However, Jacques Behan also said that although scientists know a lot of fields, they have not been to the deep seabed, and they have not seen how wolves hunt their prey, and Jacques Behan says this is our chance.
"I work with our team, we've innovated the way we shoot, our innovative approach allows us to get closest to the animals, we don't need to focus, we don't need to zoom in at a great distance, but to shoot them up close, very close, which is the pride of me and our technical team, and it's my happiness."