Mouly Surya Talks ‘This City Is A Battlefield’ & Shooting With Jessica Alba In ‘Trigger Warning’
Fresh shooting Trigger In the United States, Jessica Alba, the Indonesian director Molly of Syria The speed was launched This city is a battlefieldStarring Chicco Jericho, Ariel Tatum and Jerome Kurnia.
This city is a battlefield It will be the closing movie of Rotterdam International Film Festival (Iffr) On the evening of February 8.
The writer Al -Ghazir also finished filming her next movie, Tokar TakdirBased on short stories selections.
This city is a battlefield It was adapted from the 1952 novel entitled “A Road Without End” by Modchtar Lubis, which was sitting on the Surya book shelf that he did not touch for a while.
Syria said: “I read it by chance.” “I just read a few pages of it, I could not forget the pictures that I brought to my mind. Written prose in a way that you can definitely imagine. I was completely fascinated and I said to my product that this was an interesting book and wanted to adapt it to a movie.”
This city is a battlefield It follows ISA (played by Jerikho), who is skating on different roles: as a school teacher, a talented violinist as well as the resistance fighter. Tatom plays the role of Issa’s wife, Fatima, who is also stubborn and qualified with the piano. ISA was soon assigned to carry out an assassination alongside his rebel colleague Hayel (played by Kurnia). However, Hazil is increasingly attracted to Fatima.
The initiation of her first movie
Syria said it had met many historians during the film’s development stage. However, Syria confirmed that its goal is with This city is a battlefield It was not a documentary manufacturing. Working in a fictional space gave it more creative freedom to benefit from different sources and inspiration.
“With a movie, people expect reality, but I think the perspective is the reality. Syria said:
And Syria said: “Making a film for a period was an arduous task.” “The beginning is the most difficult, because you will look at old images and films – and history is funny, right? Victors get to write history, so it is a perspective. When you look at history, in facts and images, there is a tone in how films are filmed around that time usually in Indonesia.
“What I was worried about is to find a tone and my voice, then I always said, we do not make a documentary. It is a fantasy, it is a story, and it should be the most important thing. So I must reach some impressions, like how I want Jakarta in 1946 ? [the Dutch] He added Syria.
“It is what they planned for the city, to make it the city of a port. My late uncle and the late father were born about that colonial era, in the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century, and I still remember that they will speak Indonesians and Dutch, just as everyone speaks in the Indonesian and English. This was an interesting bet that I wanted Injecting it in the movie because you are not only colonized as an economical country, but also related to culture.
Work on Trigger In the United States
Mark The first invasion in HollywoodSyria, the excitement of excitement TriggerJessica Alba, as a special forces officer, will manage her father’s tape after his death. The movie also appeared Mark Weber, Bard Bell and Jake is exhausting.
Syria said that the guidance in a different country was not a major challenge for it – instead, found that the largest areas of growth as a cinematic maker was in adapting to various cultural and professional contexts in the United States, which was also active with a new approach to filmmaking.
“With guidance, this is the same thing – if you are doing a student movie, it is just a smaller gathering, or whether you have a trailer or not, and this does not matter, like that it does not really affect the work,” said Syria. “But the experience in America, for me, was very admired by the competitiveness and human resources they have – the abundance of great actors.
Also, coming from Indonesia, I am definite The mental ability to do a film in Indonesia without doing this first. ”
“I also realized how I was dealing with myself in Indonesia, because when I write, if I knew that a specific scene is very expensive so that it cannot be done, I am ashamed of that and I try to make things. Syria said:” Simplicity. “One of the things that that I found it [my third film] Marlina The killer in four worksHave you wanted more complicated in the movie and I think the Americans are not ashamed of it at all and pushing it, although there are restrictions, because there is nothing like an unlimited budget. So when I went home, I said I will pay some boundaries and resources a little more. “
Pour battlefield
Syria admitted that the casting This city is a battlefield It was a long and boring process. It came for the first time via Corina in This land is for humanityHe played a supportive role as a Dutch Indonesian figure.
Syria said: “He had about 10 minutes of dialogue and he was speaking the Dutch throughout the way and I had not seen it before.” He was a new actor at the time. I was very affected, and because I just read the novel, I felt that I saw a glimpse of meager. ”
Send Tatum in a test bar, while Jericho became associated with the film at a later stage.
“I would like to say that Chico was a unique choice for this role,” said Syria. “She knew Chico for a period of time as an actor. We have never worked with him, but we are always trying to find a good role for him. Issa was a kind of opposite character he usually plays. Chicco usually plays the popular man. I always said during the shooting that if this is a secondary movie In school, Chico will be Qurtubbere, but ISA is actually the head of the Student Council.
Finally, the most prominent Syria how This city is a battlefield The appropriate global show will be like the final IFFR movie.
“We have always supported Rotterdam from the beginning,” said Syria. “One of our largest common productions is with the Netherlands, because we have three Dutch actors who traveled to Indonesia to be in the movie. Half of the film’s DNA is a Dutch, so the final movie was very appropriate.”
