The Creative Background of Frozen Soul

The story of the film can be said to be shocking and thought-provoking. In order to escape the pressure in life, a person freezes his soul; Another person injects other people's souls into his body in order to succeed in his career. This story with a little eschatology and allegorical style is the original work of director Sophie Barthes. And the idea that she got this story was very accidental-she got it through a dream.

Sophie Bart said, "Three years ago, a friend of mine gave me a book, Modern Man in Search of Soul by C·G· Jung. It's an old version. I couldn't put it down after I got it. In the book, Jagger describes a man who doesn't want to live his own life. He didn't want to be himself, so he began to abandon his soul. At the same time, he also began the process of finding an alternative soul. However, like Sisyphus, he ended up in endless busyness. On the night after reading the book, I happened to watch my favorite director Woody Allen's movie "Fools make a scene in Science City". So the two are intertwined in my mind. "

After going to bed that night, Sophie Bart had a dream, and it was the content of this dream that gave birth to the content of the whole movie. She said, "In this dream, I am waiting in line to see a doctor. The doctor's office is all white, even the furniture is white. I have a box in my hand like everyone else. The doctor's secretary told us that the box contained our souls, and the doctor wanted to check our souls to see if there were any problems. At this moment, the man in front of me turned his head, and I realized that he was Woody Allen. After the examination, he told me that his soul was a pale yellow thing that looked like the seeds of chickpeas. Woody Allen seems very unhappy. He said he made so many movies and wrote so many plays. How can his soul be like chickpeas? At this time, it was my turn to take the exam. I was so nervous that I kept staring at the box, wondering what my soul was like. But at this critical moment, I woke up and my dream was over. I have never seen my soul at all. " Although I didn't see the soul of the entity, this dream left an indelible impression on Sophie Barthes. So she picked up a pen and wrote the story into a play. At the South Tackett Film Festival in 2006, Sophie Bart won the grand prize of the script competition unit for this script.

Find the crew and shooting location

With the script, Sophie Bart began to look for suitable actors and other crew members. Andrij Parekh, a good friend and photographer, first came into her sight. After reading the script, Andrij Parekh was moved by this dramatic science fiction story. Patrick said, "I like this story very much. I think it is very practical." In today's society, we are under all kinds of pressures, many of which are imposed on ourselves. So what would life be like if we could really take away our souls? If you are a poor loser, eager to get the success of others, if you change your soul for someone else's, can you get the same achievement as him? This story really touched me, so I also decided to use swimmers to make this film. "

With photography, Sophie Bart needs an actor who can take the lead. But it is not easy to show a character whose soul has been taken away. The bather said, "I had a hard time finding the hero in the film, and the whole process was very painful." Either the actor is not suitable, or the schedule conflicts, or they don't want to take this hot potato. Later, I watched a movie called Glory Belongs to America, in which paul giamatti played a nobody named Harvey Baker. His performance made my eyes shine. This is just the actor I need. I happened to meet paul giamatti at the South Tackett Film Festival in 2006. He promised to star in my film, which really made me overjoyed. He not only attended, but also introduced great actors like emily watson and david strathairn to me. Suddenly, my cast was perfect. "

With the perfect crew, Sophie Bart still needs to find a suitable location. In order to show the fantasy picture of realism and romanticism interwoven in the script, the bathers spared no effort to search extensively in new york. She said, "I grew up in new york and I know it very well. So it is much more convenient to find the shooting location. Besides new york, St. Petersburg is also one of my shooting places. I grew up watching Anna Akhmatova's poems, Chekhov's novels and Nikolai Gogol's plays, so I have an unusual sense of identity there. In the summer of 2005, I went to St. Petersburg for a field trip. I was deeply impressed by the sky, buildings, streets and pedestrians there. I decided at that time that the film must be filmed here. "

This is really a science fiction movie.

The film premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2009, and received overwhelming praise and praise from the media after the premiere. Many film critics don't think Ice Soul is a science fiction film, but a drama with high sociological value. Sophie Bart is very dissatisfied with this view. She said: "My script is a script of a science fiction movie, and my movie is really a genuine science fiction movie. Paul Giamati and I are both sci-fi fans. We are also very satisfied to cooperate with a science fiction movie. "

"This may be that there are some misunderstandings about science fiction in the current media," Bass said. "Many people think that science fiction movies should have special effects flying all over the sky, monsters and fighting plots. Actually, science fiction movies are not that narrow. As long as there are fantasy elements and surreal technology, I think they are all science fiction movies. For example, I think Jean-Luc Godard's Alpha City is a very good science fiction film with no special effects. I have always thought that the soul is a material thing, maybe a special muscle. This is the biggest foundation for me to make this film. "

In addition to fantasy, science fiction movies are more important to warn the reality-or the future reality. Bass said, "Yes, for example, I think Godard's Alpha City is a very good science fiction movie, and the Alpha 60 computer in it is an excellent warning prop. In 2005, when I wrote this script, I felt that in the next 10 year, something would definitely go wrong with our souls. Our country and the American government are so confused that it is incomprehensible. I know there must be a war going on in our hearts, and we are also looking for ways to escape-although this is not a good way to escape the problem, in this case, we can only do so. Losing your soul may be the only way to escape this dilemma. "