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日々のできごとのいろいろを気まぐれに書いてます。 ヴィゴ・モーテンセン (Viggo Mortensen) の “勝手にエヴァンジェリスト” なので、きっと(確実に)話題は多くなります♪ by Eriko


by dog_biscuit

『想い出のジュエル』


N氏のブログで思いがけず『想い出のジュエル』(Fresh Horses) というタイトルを目にしたので、ヴィゴ絡みのトリビアを。

"Sean Penn: His Life and Times" という本の中で、ショーンが語った言葉として次のように書かれています。

ショーンは当時のガールフレンドのロビン(現在の妻ロビン・ライト・ペン)のサンタモニカ・キャニオンにある家で、彼女がデートのために着替えをしているのを待っていた。
その時、消音状態のテレビに映る顔を見た──映画の中で彼はほんのちょい役だったが、それはショーンが『インディアン・ランナー』を書いた時に頭の中にあった顔だった。ショーンがフランクのようだ思う何かが彼にはあった──骨張って、ハンサムな容貌への厳しさ(自分のハンサムな容貌を拒絶するような…という感じ?)。
ショーンは映画を見終わると、ドン・フィリップス(Don Phillips、『インディアン・ランナー』のプロデューサー)に電話をして言った。
『彼が誰なのか探し出すんだ』

その「彼」というのが、ヴィゴだったんですね。巡り合わせというのは不思議なものです。
『想い出のジュエル』から約20年、20日にヴィゴは50歳になりました。(しみじみ)
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*** "Sean Penn: His Life and Times" より ***
(...)
DON PHILLIPS: Originally I gave Sean's Indian Runner script to two producers, and they said, 'This is pretty damn good, but who's ever going to see a movie about a guy who murders somebody and gets away with it? No one will ever give you the money with that ending, never.' So Sean put the script away, until I happened to know that my friend Thom Mount, who now had his own company, was closing in on Japanese money to make a slate of films. I knew Thom was a big fan of Sean's. And Bruce was now more huge than ever, and here you had a Springsteen song visualized by Sean Penn. Thom thought we might be able to attract a Tom Cruise, a Robert De Niro. So Thom said yes, and Sean and I were in business. Then, of course, there was no Tom Cruise in this movie . . .

Over at his place Sean had a really interesting book of photographs from the sixties by Dennis Hopper–just plain ordinary folks across the country. There was a picture of a guy at a diner, with his hair up in the air, wearing a white shirt with the cigarettes rolled up in the sleeve and a tattoo on his arm. And Sean said, 'That's Frank!' Then Sean calls me and says, 'I got the television on here, it's HBO, and there's a movie on called Fresh Horses, and there's this actor in it . . . '

SEAN PENN: I was over at Robin [Wright]'s little house in Santa Monica Canyon, waiting for her to get dressed for a date. The television was on, sound off, and I saw a face: he was only a cameo in a movie, but I saw the face that I'd had in my head when I wrote Indian Runner. He had something, an angularity, a severity to his handsomeness that I perceived as being 'like Frank'. So I watched the movie through, and I called Don and said, 'Find out who he is.'

"Viggo's inherent kindness as a guy showed in a sort of languid movement.
And that was a lesson for me about what parts of people express
themselves without trying."

DON PHILLIPS: It was Viggo Mortensen. We sent the script to Viggo, who was playing the seventh or eighth lead in Young Guns 2. We flew to Tucson, Arizona, and bam! He was our man, and we were off and running.
(...)

» Source: filminfocus.com: EASTERN PROMISES Production Note
by dog_biscuit | 2008-10-25 17:50 | Viggo