"Night on Earth" Jim Jarmusch's urban film that looks behind the scenes of cities on a global scale.

natural and realistic conversation

Jarmusch says he considers himself more of a filmmaker than a director.

Directors who don't write their own scripts first start planning, read the script, decide on actors, and rehearse, but he works in the opposite way. I often write the script with the actors in mind first, and then I start rehearsing. He often makes changes to the script after getting a feel for the actors' personalities.

While Hollywood movies usually focus on the script, he focuses on casting and rehearsals.

What he values ​​is natural and realistic lines, and he often uses improvisation on set. The latter three episodes in Europe (Paris, Rome, Helsinki) are not in English, but in the local language. , it seems that the lines have been changed to be more realistic.

"Night on Earth" (c) 1991 Locus Solus Inc.

Incidentally, in the Paris scene, the black driver speaks street French, and the lively sense of language he displays is probably important to Jarmusch.

He says he feels a connection to the language of Martin Scorsese's films, a senior at New York University. "The words of the characters in Scorsese's films are very real and powerful. Their words themselves create the characters. For me, too, the way they use words is very important." (Interview with "Sight and Sound" mentioned above) Than)

Jarmusch's films feature familiar characters, and the sense of familiarity with them probably comes from the use of language that reflects everyday life.

In ``Night on Earth,'' the story unfolds only within the narrow confines of a taxi, so a particular emphasis is placed on the exchange of dialogue. Therefore, by making the words come alive, the image of the person appears to be real. And it's precisely because their conversations become subtly out of sync that a strange sense of humor is born.

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