What is the true nature of angels as seen by genius Wim Wenders in "Wings of Desire"?

It all started when I pointed my camera at my favorite places in Berlin.

Initially, Wenders was planning to make a road movie, ``Until the End of My Dreams'' (1991), which would travel around the world as a feature film following `` Paris, Texas .'' However, the scale of this project was too large. Wenders wrote the script with his then-girlfriend Solveig Demartin and toured 12 countries as potential filming locations, but decided that the project was beyond their control at this point. He hired an American screenwriter, told him his ideas, left him with the script for the film, and returned to his base in Berlin. While waiting there, the Nouvelle Vague idea of ​​going out into the streets of Berlin and filming a movie was born. Instead of taking a long time like ``Paris, Texas,'' the whole thing was completed in nine months. Thus, the plan was put into motion.

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"It's a film that brings together my favorite places in Berlin," Wenders says of the film. For example, the historic Berlin City Library looks like an angel might live there. It is also said that the Victory Column in Tiergarten was used as a jogging path for Wenders. Before weaving a story, I first had a landscape I wanted to photograph. The "wall" that no longer exists seems to have been one of them.

The first person to help shape the story was playwright and novelist Peter Handke. He has been a friend of Wenders since his amateur days, and his first feature-length directorial work, `` The Goalkeeper's Anxiety '' (1972), is an adaptation of his play. He also collaborated on the script for `` Mawarimichi .'' Deciding that ``Wings of Desire'' requires beautiful lines in German, Wenders woos Handke, who has just finished writing a novel and is exhausted. At this point, there was only a simple storyline. Handke provided many rich lines, including the iconic poem that begins, "When children were children."

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