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...took him an awfully long time to choose The Beach, the first movie he decided to do since Titanic was released. After starring in the biggest movie in history, DiCaprio had his pick of scripts. He read more than 100 and optioned six, but couldn't decide which one to do. "I could tell after reading the script with him that he'd do it, but it took more than a month for a definite yes," says Beach director Danny Boyle. "He does kind of hem and haw." Once he started making the film, DiCaprio spent hours reshooting scenes...
...very interested in the notion of paradise, particularly in how it relates to The Beach. He says he chose the project because Alex Garland's 1997 novel speaks to his generation. "We've never had anything to fight for, so we're constantly looking for things to believe in. Richard [DiCaprio's character] is so influenced by the media and television and especially films that he's constantly searching for an emotional event in real time," he says. "In a world where everything conforms to our comfort, the only valuable things are those that go beyond anticipation. I think that...
...thought an awful lot about The Beach. "Three times in the movie, women give Richard keys. It's this recurrent theme of women changing Richard's character, his course. And there's the whole symbolism of water being changed into blood," he says, before going over each of these incidents in depth. "When the group photo happens, it steals the soul of the community. After the group picture, everything starts to unravel in the community," he adds. I suggest he contact UCLA about teaching an extension course on the film...
...days after the interview I get the call I had been expecting. DiCaprio intends to send me a two-page fax, restating some of the themes he wanted to state in the article. Paragraph six includes excerpts from the Lonely Planet's guide to Thailand, saying how The Beach didn't cause environmental damage to the Thai island they filmed on. Paragraph five includes the sentence "The carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere is having disastrous and irreparable effects on our climate...
...heard tales of the beach: the sugar sand leading to a phosphorescent sea, the beautiful people living in an unruffled commune, the symbiosis of modern man and primal nature. And if these attractions don't give you a high, then the free dope will--it sprouts like kudzu all over the place. Now Richard, the narrator of the book and film The Beach, has somehow reached this ideal island in Thailand, this littoral dream made literal. But Utopia isn't good enough for Richard, because he's questing, he's weak, he's ornery...he's Leonardo DiCaprio...