Who is the director of the film Black Swan? What kind of movie does it belong to?

Directed darren aronofsky in darren aronofsky.

Drama/thriller

Behind the scenes production

Start with a small idea.

It's not recent that director darren aronofsky took a keen interest in ballet. As early as many years ago, when his sister was studying ballet in the school acting class, Aaronov began to conceive a film about ballerinas. Later, this frame was integrated into the story of a wrestler, but due to the limitation of space, Darren gave up this grand plan and filmed the wrestler first.

The general plot of the latest movie "Black Swan" comes from a script called "Alternate Actor". The script story takes place in new york drama circle, and tells the story of an actor who discovers his dark side through his role. Aaronov has a very good impression of this play. He said: "The play seems to be all about Eve, but the scary element is roman polanski's face. Those fantasies and opponents with dual personality and true and false are born out of Dostoevsky's collection of short stories "Dual Personality". " However, for this story, Aaronov base is not satisfied, because in his view, it is too abrupt and direct to directly cut into an actor's inner world. The best way to make this movie is to make the characters on the stage correspond to the characters in reality. Aaronov said: "If the characters on the stage tend to split, then the split of characters in reality can be more perfect and justified;" If the role in reality is divided, you can turn your head to make the division on the stage more thorough. This is a complementary process and indispensable, so telling this story is the best way. So I thought of the ballet Swan Lake. So he conceived to move the story background to the ballet stage. " In Swan Lake, there are two characters, the white swan and the black swan, which are complementary mirror images. For Aaronov, there is nothing more appropriate than putting Swan Lake in the film. Aaronov said, "I think this ballet is very dramatic and representative. Especially this kind of film can create a narrow and cramped sense of space. "

After the film premiered at Venice Film Festival, many commentary articles claimed that the film felt like Polanski and Conanberg. In fact, starring Natalie Portman and Vinson Castle also think so. Portman said: "The psychological suggestion and personality split in the film are very similar to Rosemary's Baby." Castle thinks Black Swan has the shadow of david cronenberg's early works. Darren admitted that he was influenced by Polanski's Cry in Cold Blood and Strange Tenant.

Two excellent actresses

In 2000, Aaronov found Natalie Portman and told her that there was a film about a ballet dancer under consideration, hoping that she could participate in the film. At that time, the script of the film had not yet taken shape. Aaronov and Portman talked about some scenes in the film and his favorite plot settings. After listening to Aaronov's story, Portman decided to play the leading role in this thriller.

Portman recalled: "The story Darren told me deeply attracted me, and I was very interested in this film. Because it has pioneering creativity in many aspects, for example, the film shows the inner world of a dancer, and it tells the two sides of a person and a role. Whether it is the setting of the play or the emotions of the characters, this film is rare for me. Because my job is also to play other people on the screen, I have had crashes and discomfort. It can be said that playing the leading role in the film gives me the opportunity to review my life. " After deciding to star in this film, Portman recommended his good friend mila kunis to Darren, hoping that Milla could play his "enemy" Lily in the film. After a brief informal understanding, Darren decided to play Lily with Milla. Milla said, "My role is not as complicated as Natalie's, but she is obviously more passionate and interesting. If Natalie's role is introspective, then my role is extroverted and aggressive. Natalie and I are completely complementary. "

In order to become excellent ballerinas on the screen and minimize defects, Portman and Milla started special ballet training six months before the film started. They should try their best to adjust their muscles, body shape and state to the level of professional ballet dancers. Portman, who plays a heavy role, is the hardest. She receives five hours of ballet training every day, as well as physical training, swimming and temperament training. Before filming, Portman also studied choreography for a period of time. During this period, Milla did a lot of aerobic training and Pilates training, and their purpose was only one, to fully show the momentum and accomplishment of professional ballerinas in movies. Milla said, "I have skipped ballet and know the hardships. We stand on Taobao, we can jump or not. There is no way to pretend or act. There is no way to fake the coordination of the body and express the content and emotion of the dance with the limbs. So we trained for a long time to perform this film, with the aim of minimizing embarrassment and regret. "

Ten years of waiting

It was ten years ago that I saw the script of the original "Alternate Actor", and I went to Mark Heyman, the screenwriter of "Wrestler", to write the script for him, and then the film was finished and released. In the past ten years, Darren has made a Golden Lion film, and Portman has also tried to direct it. However, if you want to ask why the film is released so late, Darren will tell you, or it is a matter of chance.

June 5438+October 2007 10, Darren once gave Universal Pictures a detailed shooting plan, hoping to get the start-up funds for shooting. At that time, Universal Pictures gave Darren an answer. They needed Darren to make the film in a short and fast way, that is, to finish the film in the shortest time. But Darren didn't have a definite script at that time, so the film was destroyed at Universal Pictures. Later, Darren filmed Mark Heyman's The Wrestler. The film was a great success. Stimulated by success, Darren invited Hyman again and asked him to adapt the understudy into Black Swan. In June 2009, the delayed filming of Black Swan was turned over by Universal Pictures. The black swan entering the free market is particularly eye-catching because of the appeal of Darren and Portman. Soon, Fox Searchlight Company took a fancy to this project and invested120,000 USD in Darren. With the help of this money, the black swan was able to start shooting.

At the end of 2009, "Black Swan" officially started shooting. Due to limited funds, Darren finished filming in new york. In the film, he shows a very similar color and graininess to the wrestler, and the use of hand-held photography accurately conveys the inner struggle and pain of the characters. Darren said, "It's been ten years, and I think I've grown a lot during this time. It is because of these shooting experiences and foundations that I can make this film well. If we shoot like this from the beginning, maybe this movie will be very naive and shallow. " Portman, on the other hand, said: "For ten years, I seem to have dyed another color in the actor's vat, which seems to be a step closer to the character's heart."

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Director darren aronofsky thinks Black Swan and Wrestler are sister films.

There is a sex scene between two women in the film. In order to make Natalie Portman less embarrassed, mila kunis suggested that she have a drink before filming. So Portman drank a whole bottle of tequila. In the next day and a half, Portman had to faint in bed. Aaronov felt very guilty about this.

The crew first considered shooting the whole film in Budapest, France and Hungary. But in the end, the idea was abandoned due to budget problems.

The original script of the film is called Undercover, and all the stories take place in new york Grand Theatre. Aranov liked the play very much, but suggested changing the story into the life of a ballet dancer.

In order to shoot the story that happened in the background, Aaronov specially observed how the actors got ready to get on and off at Lincoln Performance Center.

Vinson Castle, the leading actor, compared his role in the film with george balanchine, the choreographer of new york Ballet. In Castle's eyes, balanchine is an avid artist who knows how to guide dancers.

Natalie Portman recommended his good friend mila kunis to play Lily. Mila kunis has received professional ballet training since he was a child. Through Skype video chat, Aaronov decided to let mila kunis play Lily without formal audition.

The composer of this film is clint mansell, who has collaborated with his base in Aaronov on all films from Requiem. In the soundtrack of Black Swan, he used many musical elements from the ballet Swan Lake.

Benjamin Millepied, the actor and choreographer of new york Ballet, is the choreographer of the film and plays a small role in it. He is also Natalie Portman's boyfriend.

As early as 2000, in Aaronov, Natalie Portman was cast as the heroine of this film.

Meryl Streep was a candidate to play Nina's mother Erica.

Blake Lively auditioned for the role of Lily.

This is Aaronov's first feature film without mark margolis.

In the earliest script, the protagonist's name was Alexander.