Author Topic: Jake Gyllenhaal in EVEREST opens September 18 2015  (Read 6482 times)

Offline Aloysius J. Gleek

  • BetterMost Supporter!
  • The BetterMost 10,000 Post Club
  • *****
  • Posts: 10,011
Jake Gyllenhaal in EVEREST opens September 18 2015
« on: September 05, 2015, 05:07:53 pm »



[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZQVpPiOji0[/youtube]
Published on Jun 4, 2015




"Tu doives entendre je t'aime."
(and you know who I am...)


Cowboy Curtis (Laurence Fishburne)
and Pee-wee in the 1990 episode
"Camping Out"

Offline Aloysius J. Gleek

  • BetterMost Supporter!
  • The BetterMost 10,000 Post Club
  • *****
  • Posts: 10,011
Re: Jake Gyllenhaal in EVEREST opens September 18 2015
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2015, 05:30:16 pm »
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/02/everest-how-jake-gyllenhaal-got-to-grips-with-the-worlds-highest-mountain
Everest
how Jake Gyllenhaal got to grips
with the world's highest mountain

As his film about the ill-fated 1996 expedition opens
the Venice film festival, director Baltasar Kormákur
explains how he and his cast coped with difficult
conditions and delicate subject matter

By Andrew Pulver
Wednesday 2 September 2015 12.15 EDT



‘We blasted it in their faces as hard as we could’ Baltasar Kormákur with Jake Gyllenhaal and
Jason Clarke at the press conference for Everest in Venice
.
Photograph: A Fraioli/A Fraioli/Splash News/Corbis



Imported snow from Holland was among the secret weapons deployed by Everest director Baltasar Kormákur in his quest to make his 3D film about the disastrous 1996 expedition, when eight climbers died on the world’s highest mountain, as realistic as possible. “It was the real stuff, minus 60 degrees; when we were shooting at Pinewood, we blasted it in their faces as hard as we could.”

“I wanted the actors to respond to the environment,” Kormákur said. “The more you draw from reality, the more likely you are to get reality.” Everest, which features Jason Clarke and Jake Gyllenhaal as Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, leaders of rival expeditions on the mountain, both of whom died in the tragedy, has been given the prestigious opening-night gala slot at the Venice film festival.

Speaking to the press before the official screening, Kormákur, an Icelandic-born film-maker, joked that he “had been practising for this movie every day as a kid, going to school in a blizzard”, and that popping outside during a “snow-blind blizzard” on his family’s farm in Iceland inspired his sense of what the film should be. “Except, add 29,000 feet to that.”

Kormákur explained that he and his crew had shot at progressively higher altitudes in Nepal and on the slopes of Everest itself, including the airport at Lukla, until altitude sickness prevented it. “We walked almost up to base camp, no vehicles are allowed there … at that point, we were shooting at the climber’s memorials, people started to get sick, and we had to evacuate pretty quickly. It’s one thing climbing up a mountain, which is really hard in itself, but it’s another to work a 12-hour day when you get there.”

The film crew also filmed in the Dolomite mountains, on the Italian-Austrian border, and added visual effects to blend in shots of the actual Himalayas. While stressing that no one was exposed to any unnecessary danger, he said the film benefited from sending a film unit headed by renowned mountain film-making specialist David Breashears to the summit two years before photography got under way. During a subsequent Everest ascent, the second unit was caught up in the 2014 avalanche (in which 16 Sherpas died). None of the film crew were harmed. “There’s a difference between pain and injury,” said Kormákur. “I put them through a lot of pain, but no injury.”

Controversy has persisted since the accident as to individual responsibility in contributing to the disaster, and sensitivities clearly remain as to how the protagonists have been portrayed. Gyllenhaal spoke about meeting Fischer’s children before the film and listening to their descriptions of him. “When you are re-creating something that actually happened, you have a tremendous responsibility. Scott’s children contacted me directly, and it was a beautiful thing to feel him through them.”

Kormákur said: “It’s a balance you have to strike. You want to tell a real story, you don’t want to pull any punches. Showing mistakes humanises them, instead of just sanitising them. That’s why we try to be real as possible.”






"Tu doives entendre je t'aime."
(and you know who I am...)


Cowboy Curtis (Laurence Fishburne)
and Pee-wee in the 1990 episode
"Camping Out"

Offline Aloysius J. Gleek

  • BetterMost Supporter!
  • The BetterMost 10,000 Post Club
  • *****
  • Posts: 10,011
Re: Jake Gyllenhaal in EVEREST opens September 18 2015
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2015, 05:56:51 pm »
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34137319
Everest
Disaster movie opens Venice film festival
By Emma Jones
3 September 2015





Gyllenhaal was among the stars on the red carpet at the premiere in Venice

Long before and after its summit was first officially conquered in 1953, scaling Everest, the world's highest peak, has been the ultimate dream of many mountaineers. Too often though, they have paid the ultimate price - more than 250 climbers are known to have died on its slopes.

On May 11 1996, eight climbers from several expeditions were killed during a severe blizzard as they returned from the summit. The movie of their story, also called Everest, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley, Josh Brolin and Zero Dark Thirty's Jason Clarke, has opened the Venice International Film Festival.

Gyllenhaal, who plays an expedition leader, Scott Fischer, calls it "the antithesis of a Hollywood disaster movie where it's all about surviving".

He continues: "This is an odyssey in the sense that you have to get home as well, and experienced climbers know that getting down from Everest is often more dangerous than getting up.

"In real life, Mother Nature is almost always going to win, so it's not like in a typical film where a human or a superhuman beats all the odds, and that makes it a bit more real."

The film was conceived by British production company Working Title, and shot in 3D; but despite its blockbuster potential, Everest's budget was around $70m (£45m), roughly the same as last year's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.

The film's director, Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormakur, was mainly known outside Europe for 2013 police movie 2 Guns, starring Denzel Washington.

Actor Josh Brolin jokes that it was his "midlife crisis" that got him involved in the project, adding that, "at the time I needed something like this in my life. I needed to be confronted with something more than the psychological roles I've done, I needed the physical as well.

"A lot of the preparation was putting myself in very precarious situations, but through that I discovered adventure. This redefined me."

But if that suggests the actors' safety was ever put at risk, director Kormakur denies he ever put his cast and crew into danger. Although he admits to facing "perilous situations every day. We shot at first in the foothills of Everest, we landed at Kathmandu, the world's most dangerous airport, and from there we basically walked to base camp.

"We had the support of Sherpas, and yaks carrying the packs. But you can't work a twelve hour day at that altitude without difficulty. Crew, actors, and even the Sherpas were starting to get sick and eventually had to be evacuated by helicopter. From there we went to the Dolomites and shot in temperatures of minus 30 degrees Celsius.

"I would say I put everyone through pain but not injury - no one went foolishly into danger. The struggle wouldn't be worth much however if the story of these climbers were not handled in a truthful manner."

The tragic events of May 11, 1996 made global headlines - that year would produce the worst death toll on Everest until the avalanche of 2014, which killed sixteen Nepalese guides.

But there is still much confusion around the doomed expedition led by Rob Hall, from New Zealand-based Adventure Consultants, and Scott Fischer from Mountain Madness in Seattle.

They led their teams towards the summit in clear skies. On the way down, a violent storm hit them as they tried to scale a 40 foot wall known as Hillary Step, after Everest's first official conqueror, Sir Edmund Hillary.

Rob Hall spent two nights exposed on the South Summit, unable to make the descent himself, and unable to be rescued from below. Jason Clarke, who plays him, calls the story " a great monumental whodunit, as we still don't truly know the chain of events that led to the tragedy. Yet holds up by itself; we don't need a Hollywood ending and it's not sentimental."

But the film does point towards the fact that there were 34 climbers from different expeditions trying to get to the top that day, 29,000 feet above sea level; the cruising level of a 747 jet.

"It's very odd to think that you would be waiting to get to the peak of Everest, that there could be scores of people on a rope queuing like they were in an amusement park," explains Jake Gyllenhaal.

"The top of the mountain is known as the Death Zone for a reason - your body is shutting down and dying. People don't get to the top and party, they go straight back down. There are more difficult climbs in the world, but on Everest, you struggle with suffocation and losing air. Human beings just aren't meant to survive at that altitude, and that's why you have the death rate.

"Even at the heights we got to, we experienced symptoms of sickness and our brains not functioning as they should."

Since its premiere, Everest has received mixed reviews, with the Guardian calling it "a disaster movie that isn't a total success", while Time Out praises it "for leaving you breathless."

In recent years, the opening film at Venice, which has included last year's Oscar-winner Birdman, Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity and Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, has reaped rewards during awards season.

Brolin dismisses any official recognition as "not the reason any of us did this. We all met the survivors' families and spent time with them; we know they are pleased with the movie and the way we have depicted their loved ones.

"This is the story of people trying to tackle something impossible. The question comes up - why? Why would you ever put yourself in that situation? As someone once remarked, 'because it's there'.

"But I think also it must be because those who do reach the top get to experience an unique and singular beauty at the top of the world that very few others get to share."

Everest is released in the UK on 18 September.






"Tu doives entendre je t'aime."
(and you know who I am...)


Cowboy Curtis (Laurence Fishburne)
and Pee-wee in the 1990 episode
"Camping Out"

Offline CellarDweller

  • The BetterMost 10,000 Post Club
  • ********
  • Posts: 38,301
  • A city boy's mentality, with a cowboy's soul.
Re: Jake Gyllenhaal in EVEREST opens September 18 2015
« Reply #3 on: September 05, 2015, 06:25:20 pm »
I read somewhere that Jake is in only about 20 minutes of the film.


Tell him when l come up to him and ask to play the record, l'm gonna say: ''Voulez-vous jouer ce disque?''
'Voulez-vous, will you kiss my dick?'
Will you play my record? One-track mind!

Online southendmd

  • Town Administration
  • The BetterMost 10,000 Post Club
  • *****
  • Posts: 18,962
  • well, I won't
Re: Jake Gyllenhaal in EVEREST opens September 18 2015
« Reply #4 on: September 05, 2015, 08:18:27 pm »
I read somewhere that Jake is in only about 20 minutes of the film.

Well, he is one of a large cast and HE DIES.  AGAIN.  

Like in BBM, Good Girl, Donnie Darko...

I won't be seeing this one. Do not like disaster films.

Offline suelyblu

  • Jr. Ranch Hand
  • **
  • Posts: 19
Re: Jake Gyllenhaal in EVEREST opens September 18 2015
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2015, 04:20:33 pm »
                                                                                          ^^^

I knew he died....but I was hoping it was more towards the ending.......if he has to die at all  :'(

Offline CellarDweller

  • The BetterMost 10,000 Post Club
  • ********
  • Posts: 38,301
  • A city boy's mentality, with a cowboy's soul.
Re: Jake Gyllenhaal in EVEREST opens September 18 2015
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2015, 08:43:03 am »
I won't be seeing this one. Do not like disaster films.

I don't mind disaster films, but for some reason, this one is not catching my attention.


Tell him when l come up to him and ask to play the record, l'm gonna say: ''Voulez-vous jouer ce disque?''
'Voulez-vous, will you kiss my dick?'
Will you play my record? One-track mind!