Across the Universe (2007)

Directed by Julie Taymor

I waited for this film to come out for a long time...
The film was great. I was interested in this director's theatrical background because I felt the film was very tehatrical. So here her interview goes. In the interview, she talks about the benefits of film and theater.

"I knew that whatever I did (for creating the Lion King) had to be totally theatrical, because I couldn't compete with film. One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it. I can go to an Eskimo snowfield if I want to have snow; I don't need to do chicken feathers falling out of a plate. [...] What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality. You watch this water -- but it's just silk (with blue lines)-- disappear through a hole. Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry."

It is always fascinating to see films that play with visual images that provoke certain emotions and feelings in audience because, for those films, the director's focus is more on "how" to tell a story rather than "what" to. I think...

Thanks

Shin