Tetro's tidbits

The actors in this film are international actors. Among them, Vincent Gallo and alden ehrenreich are from the United States, Maribel Verdú and Carmen Mora are from Spain, Rodrigo Dracena and Leticia Brédice are from Argentina, and klaus maria brandauer is from Australia.

This film is the first film written and directed by francis ford coppola since 1974 "Eavesdropping Storm".

The film only costs $6.5438+0.5 million, and it is an independent black-and-white film with low cost.

This film was unsuccessful in the competition unit of Cannes Film Festival in 2009. But it was chosen as the opening film of the "Biweekly Director" unit.

The story of the film is mixed with Coppola's early memories, which can be regarded as a semi-autobiographical film.

Alden ehrenreich, the little star in the film, was discovered by Steven Allan Spielberg at a family gathering and recommended to Coppola. During the audition, he read a passage from Good Girl to Coppola.

The film style is similar to Coppola's 2007 Youth Without Youth. Coppola mainly cooperates with some of his old partners: photographer Mikhail Malameyer, composer Osvaldo Golijov, editor walter murch and executive producers anahid nazarian and Fred Roos.

In 2007, several thieves broke into Coppola's studio and stole all the electronic equipment inside. Include computers with scripts.

At first, the governess in the film planned to let javier bardem play it. Later, Coppola thought that if Titro's mentor was a woman, the film would be more exciting, so he rewrote the script and asked Carmen Mora to play the role.

Coppola initially wanted Matt Dillon to play tetro, but because of the scheduling problem, Coppola failed to do so. Later, he felt that letting matt dillon play the leading role in the film was repeating his "fighting fish", so Coppola invited Vincent Gallo.

This film can be regarded as a companion piece of Coppola's film Betta, 1983.

According to Coppola, the film was shot in widescreen format because he wanted to pay tribute to Akira Kurosawa.

For those flashback memories, Coppola wanted to shoot with a 16mm camera to enhance the sense of history and the times. But this kind of camera and film have been discontinued for a long time. In desperation, Coppola had to shoot a complete film with digital equipment and then digitally process those flashbacks.

The scene of tetro holding a bunch of flowers in the film is a tribute to Marlon Brando in The Seaside.

After the film was released, variety magazines didn't give favorable comments. The variety show didn't give any good comments to The Godfather.

With the independent production of Youth Without Youth in 2007, tetro is the second film written and directed by filmmaker francis ford coppola after 1997 "It's raining". The very personal story told in it still maintains a semi-autobiographical description of the family atmosphere, focusing on some early experiences of Coppola, fictional family with profound artistic atmosphere and great creativity, entangled in intergenerational competition, full of conflicts and secrets.

In fact, francis ford coppola and walter murch started their long-term cooperation as early as 1969.

The reason why Francis Ford Coppola chose to shoot tetro in the form of a black-and-white film is also closely related to walter murch's Sidelights.

Before tetro, francis ford coppola made only one black-and-white film, that is, the novel of the same name by s·E· Hinton tells the same story between brothers.

Francis ford coppola, after careful consideration, decided to refer to the master movies that he was fascinated with when he was a student. He said, "I watched a lot of' good-looking' movies with Xiaomi Hamala Meyer, and especially studied their picture presentation. These films include michelangelo antonioni's Night, elia kazan's Doll and On the Seaside ...........................................................................................................................................................

Like fighting fish, tetro also contains subtle color blocks-francis ford coppola decided to use flashback pictures to show some of the protagonist's past experiences. He chose a bleached corrosive color, which is very similar to the unique color of home videos. At first, Coppola used a 16mm camera to shoot flashback scenes experimentally, but in the end, he and Mieha Malameyer realized that the feasibility of this shooting method was too low, because this part contained a lot of conversations. So, they first shot normally with a 16mm camera, and then tried to simulate the style and material they needed with a digital camera.

Explain vivid stories in black and white.

After figuring out how to make it, Miiha Malameyer also knew how great a challenge he faced as a tetro photographer.

In order to find out how to show a deep sense of hierarchy in black and white pictures, Xiaomi Hamala Meyer bought two cameras for practice and preparation. He said, "The first time I practiced my hand with a digital camera was to find out how to create a strong contrast under the influence of lighting. I walked casually on the streets of Buenos Aires, recording daily life here with photos ... Then when the film officially entered the filming, I took these photos out for reference and tried to restore them. Very good lighting environment, as far as possible to complete francis ford coppola's shooting requirements and imagination of this film. "

In order to maintain the overall level of tetro and the same style of display, Xiaomi Ha Malameyer decided to use the help of high-definition camera. Although it is called a black-and-white movie, tetro still contains a series of brightly colored scenes. Xiaomi Hamala Meyer admitted: "For a set of flashbacks in the film, francis ford coppola decided to try the' Anscrom' reverse film, which is an old film style with faded and novel color effects ... Coppola has been thinking about how to show his memory. In his view, everything related to memory has a feeling very similar to home videos. We also agree that it is the perfect choice to use it here-we first shoot normally with a 16mm camera, then recolor it and render it in HD to create the color and texture of the old photos, emitting a faint khaki color related to memory and imagination. "