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An Interview with Dario Argento by Boris Barabanov for Russian magazine OM.
Translated by Ashirg.
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| I watched "The Phantom of the Opera" at the movie theatre yesterday and noticed that people were laughing instead of crying out of fear. Is it specific to the Russian public or did people in Europe react the same way toward this film? | "Sometimes people laugh, because they are excited. Excitement is expressed through some nervous laughter. I watch my movies with the audience and don't know how they will react to it."
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| About 10 years ago, there was a movie "Phantom of the Opera" with Robert Englund. His phantom was like Freddy Kruger. In your movie, Julian Sands is more like Robin Hood. |
"I haven't seen that movie with Englund, but I was told it was nothing special. It was an American commercial movie, the type that is made to make profit. About my phantom, I think, Julian Sands is like a man, who's never seen the sun, so he is always pale."
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| Usually "Phantom of the Opera" is associated with a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The association with a Leroux novel comes second. How did Ennio Morricone approach this movie? Is his music similar to Webber's? |
"No, it's not. Webber's music is written for a merry musical for family listening. Morricone's music is tense, serious, dark."
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| Did you have a desire to write music yourself? You used to do it... |
"No, music is not my profession. I know it, but I'm a professional in movies. That's why it's hard for me to write music. When I have months for free reflection, for creativity, then I can write it. Otherwise, I prefer to collaborate with composers."
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| Once, you said that none could play a better mouse than a mouse itself. I'll try to dispute that - there is something, and it's called a Computer. |
"It will be false. When you see a living mouse, you believe, that this is a mouse, that it has a soul of a mouse. When you see a computer generated mouse, it may move like a living one, but it doesn't have soul. You can see that it's unreal."
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| Everybody's talking about the end of the Millennium, the end of the world, recalling Nostradamus predicting Armageddon. Do you have a desire to make a movie about this? |
"No, I don't want to make a movie about this. Regarding the end of the world; If it comes true, of course we will die.... Enough! We have seen life."
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Giallo
(pronounced 'djallo, plural gialli) is an italian 20th century genre of literature and film, which in italian indicates crime fiction and mystery. In the English language, however, it is used in a broader meaning that is closer to the french fantastique genre, including elements of horror fiction and eroticism.
The word giallo is Italian for "yellow" and stems from the origin of the genre as a series of cheap paperback novels with trademark yellow covers.
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