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Marc Forster has talked about his collaboration
with composer David Arnold on "Quantum of Solace"
and the style of the film...
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Marc Forster Looking Back
10th August 2009
"Quantum of Solace" director Marc
Forster spoke recently to SoundTrackGeek to
discuss the scores to his films. Described as an 'unabashed
soundtrack
geek", Forster opened up about he style of his James Bond
film and working with 007 composer David Arnold.
RAW: Many people were surprised about your being
selected to direct Bond. Though if you really think about Paul
Haggis’ interpretation of the character (as the screenwriter
for both films staring Daniel Craig), in that sense, you’re
a perfect fit for it. Bond is dealing with that loneliness and
the franchise is so much more introspective with these last two
films. I’m wondering how surprised you yourself were when
you got the call for the job?
MF: Yeah, I was surprised and I didn’t want to do it in
the beginning and I had no interest. Ultimately, I was won over
by Daniel Craig, I think he’s an incredible actor. First
I met with the producers and I told them I wasn’t sure,
that I had to think about it and then they said that I should
meet with Daniel who was in town. I connected with him because
he’s a real actor, he’s down to earth and someone
I knew I could make a really good movie with him even though
at that point, we didn’t even really have a script. One
of the things I wanted to do was bring my crew, the people I’ve
worked with in the past to the Bond films, though in regard to
the composer, David Arnold had scored several of the previous
Bonds, so the producers had me listen to his music and meet with
him. I met with him which I thought was interesting because I
had replaced everybody else but would have this continuum going
into Bond through David Arnold and actually it was a collaboration
I enjoyed very much.
RAW: You have this close-knit team you brought
on board to Bond, one of those people being your long-time editor
Matt Chesse. The thing that baffled me, to be perfectly honest
was that opening car chase action sequence. It had some of that
Michael Bay, I daresay, attention deficit editing style. Is this
the studio responding to Jason Bourne breathing down their necks
that they feel they have to adopt this very similar “shaky
cam” editing style in order to compete?
MF: No it wasn’t. The studio didn’t really say much,
it was more from me. I wanted to create that opening to be very
disorientating, the feeling of not really knowing where I was.
This was the character state for me, that Bond, he doesn’t
really know who he is with this word of disorientation going
on around him. That’s what I tried to do with that. I hear
that there were a couple of people who saw that comparison to
Bourne. On one hand, Dan Bradley, the second unit director worked
on those movies which definitely adds too that comparison. The
sequences he worked on, on this were the opening car chase scene
and the exterior of the plane sequence. I shot the interior.
In regard to the car chase though, when he shot things, I always
watched it and gave him notes on how I wanted to have it different
or this and that, so there was a constant dialogue of me pushing
for the disorientation of that opening, not so much him actually.
RAW: And in a similar way, you pushing Matt, your editor? It
just seems so different from his editing style on the previous
films. It was something I didn’t expect.
MF: Yeah. I just felt like I wanted to be thrown into this movie
and be totally disorientated. That I don’t know where I
am or what’s happening.
Click on to SoundTrackGeek for
the rest of the interview where Forster talks about his other
films.
Briefing
Produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli (Eon
Productions), QUANTUM OF SOLACE was released in the
UK on October 31st 2008 and is directed by
Marc Forster. Principal photography started on January
3rd
2008 at
Pinewood Studios and around the UK, and foreign locations
including Italy, Panama, Chile, Peru and Austria.
Paul Haggis completed the script based on a first draft
screenplay developed by regular scribes Neal Purvis & Robert
Wade, with later polish by Joshua Zetumer. The story
is a direct continuation of the events of Casino
Royale. 007 faces off against
villains Mathieu Amalric (Dominic Greene), Anatole
Taubman (Elvis) and Joaquin Cosío (General Medrano).
Olga Kurylenko (Camille) and Gemma Arterton (MI6 Agent
Fields) play the Bond Girls. Dame Judi Dench (M), Jeffrey
Wright (Felix Leiter) and Giancarlo Giannini (Mathis)
reprise their roles as Bond's allies. It is British
actor Daniel Craig’s second outing as James Bond,
following his debut film Casino Royale released November
16th 2006.
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