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...chance to reach out to global audiences and into deeper U.S. pockets. "In France, we make movies for the art of it," Kassovitz says. "It's only art movies that come out." Not so in the U.S., where the box office rules. France's priciest production ever, Jean-Jacques Annaud's just-released Two Brothers, about two tiger cubs separated at birth, cost about 360 million - a little more than the average U.S. film. Even a quirky, just-off-mainstream U.S. project like Gondry's Eternal Sunshine got a generous budget of about $35 million. Kassovitz speaks for many...
Jean-Jacques Annaud created a difficult task for himself when he decided to direct a mainstream film about the battle of Stalingrad. In order to make the film palatable, he had to pull out all the stops. Not only is Enemy at the Gates rumored to be the most expensive film ever made in Continental Europe, but it also stars attractive men with important names-Jude Law, Ed Harris and Joseph Fiennes-and contains one of the best sex scenes in modern cinema. For the most part, Annaud succeeds in his goal; his re-creation of one of the worst...
...went to the diagonally opposite side of the world, Argentina, where the Andes would stunt-double for the Himalayas. This time, says Annaud, the Chinese tried pressuring the governor of the Argentine province of Mendoza. When he refused to cave, Annaud says, China put pressure on the Argentine government, which said thanks, but we can make our own policy on lucrative location shoots. The film was finally shot in Argentina, Chile, England, Austria and British Columbia. But the ruckus made Annaud a semiofficial Enemy of the People's Republic. "I am supposedly banned from China," he notes. Friends have seen...
...Annaud film, remember, must be an adventure. "We had to helicopter the entire crew and gear up every day," says Pitt of the mountain scenes. "It was a limited crew because it was so precarious; we could have been snowed in for 30 days. If the safety guys told us we had to evacuate, we'd do it like that." But like the last U.S. officer in Saigon, Annaud would be the last to leave. "He would assemble the crew," Pitt says, "and it was women and children first. He'd get the entire crew off and then take...
Pitt brushes off the controversy about Harrer's recently discovered SS past and the resulting news stories that suggested Pitt and director Jean-Jacques Annaud were making some kind of glam hero out of a Nazi scuzzbag. "That's a slant people took before they knew all the information," Pitt complains. "You shouldn't speak until you know what you're talking about. That's why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I'm a f______ actor! They hand me a script...