Larry Karaszewski on ONE FROM THE HEART
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- Francis Coppola's idealistic attempt to transform the way movies were made upended his career when it crashed and burned, taking his Zoetrope studio with it. Set in Las Vegas but filmed entirely on sound stages to heighten the artificiality, it featured a number of audacious stylistic touches, but despite them (or perhaps because of them), audiences found the end result pretentious and uninvolving. Even so, its adherents see it as a brave, innovative film with a great soundtrack.
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Good commentary Larry. I was there, working construction, my first film. Got to speak with Francis and Dean Tavoularis a couple of times. Problem was they were having wrap-like parties every Friday. Open bar, music, lobster, the works. Then he had about 4 or 5 films he kept working on, nothing had been released yet, including Hammett, and basically every one of them had flopped. And yes, the chemistry was lacking between the leads.
And Hammet was completely reshot
Ouah could you tell us more about it ??
@@idag7221 The film was well under way when I got there. Had to work 30 days straight to get my union card, and on the 29th day, Francis came out and told the crews about the money problems. He promised us if we could go a few days without pay, it would be made up and it was. Got to see Tom Waits bopping around and Nastassja Kinski was a vision. I would watch Francis shoot and work out the scenes with the actors whenever I was on a break. One day when everyone was at lunch I was walking outside the Vegas set, when one of the electrical transformers smelled really bad, (absolute insane amount of recreated casino and hotel lights) so I alerted the Studio fire dept. They told me it was ready to blow, so I might have saved a disaster. Brought my girl to the set to watch them shoot. She was a statuesque 6 footer and Frederic Forrest got a little drooly over her. You can really see the Zoetrope studio offices in The Player. Good times.
Hill thank you so much for taking the time of answering. Wow this might have been magic ! I mean I would have loved to see the Vegas set, because the movie is full of colors and astonishingly beautiful. I'm not American so to me it was a great discovery. I just can't believe you saw Nastajssa Kinski. Did you see the scene when she is with Frederic Forrest, standing on front of him in his car ? This scene is my favourite. Your girlfriend must have been so pleased hehe. I wish I was here at this time. I don't get over the fact you saw them all for real. Thank you again for sharing your experience. Maybe you should write a book about it (I would buy it for sure 😂). Have a wonderful day.
@@idag7221 For a movie buff like myself, it was always fun working at film and television studios. No, I never watched that scene that you mentioned. I would get the soundtrack for sure, one of my favorite records. They were also shooting Body Heat (another production company), and I had a chance to watch some scenes. It was a thrill to see Gene Kelly too, as he was a dance supervisor on the film. Interesting tidbit, they brought in a full size 707 jet for the airport scene. They had to remove the wings to get it there. But it wasn't a commercial version, it was a cargo version, and they were trying to add the interior panels using fiberglass instead of the usual plastic. I remember telling some of those guys doing that work, that it would never look good enough to be filmed. They should have used a commercial plane. They ended up using a rental studio that specialized in plane interiors instead of that plane. Movie magic is real.
I have it on DVD. I loved it.
well some have forgotten he made a masterpiece after this one; Rumble Fish, and succeeded in doing something smaller
Thanks for a sympathetic review of the film. My wife and I love it, and own in on VHS and Laserdisc. We were excited about the DVD and we had the opportunity to see it in the theater - and it was sadly the recut version. I wish that I could get an HD version of the original cut, with the original soundtrack intact.
its the most underated film i know of....i thought the characters were spot on...the 2 leads seek and find more excitement elswhere but its not love....a real gem this
I remember reading about him and how he directed the actors remotely via video and audio from long distance. I had no idea it ruined his studio. Very sad indeed. I would have gone and seen it, but it did not play within 30 miles of my house.
shame he didn't go back to small pictures after Apocalypse oh the films he might of made, there were still some highlights Dracula is an incredible movie, Rumble Fish was good too and Tucker of course, I also thought youth without youth was great and Tetro was interesting if messy
I got to see Larry Albright’s miniatures at his shop. I believe the Neon signs are the smallest neon lights ever made.
The recent remastered Bluray of this film looks and sounds lovely, and there's some interesting casting, but the film fails on a basic level. The audience never roots for the leads to get together. I don't regret having watched it, but I can't recommend it to anybody.
Genius filmmaking
It is a flawed minor classic, I love this film sadly it is seldom shown more people need to beware of it.
Just beautiful
I can honestly say that I never had a bigger celebrity crush than Nastassja Kinski. There were times when she smiled that ...whew!
But this whole movie is just disjointed. The conceit of creating an ideal to show the fallacy of illusion while rooting for your stars to connect didn't fully pay off.
Teri Barr is wonderful!and the film is beautiful to look at. And, yes,by all means get the soundtrack.
Strangely, this was intended as an intimate film ad while it was a huge public failure Coppola would definitely achieve his goals on his next film -the woefully under appreciated Rumble Fish
great movie and music
Can't disagree with you more. This is a classic. Beautiful movie, the title tells you everything you need to know, it's one from the heart.
The narrator recognized what I am looking for, like others. The original release. Not the re-do that came out on cd. There must be a copy somewhere.
Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh Terry Garr!
Good comments and after such a long time most impressive that you did this. One from the heart is my favorite soft jazz album. The movie most definitely left a great memory on my mind even I was only like 13 years old. About his follow ups being low key and realistic I very much do not agree. It is not just like mentioned in the comments the rumble fish but more the previous movie from 1983/4 which changed all further more movies and is a great testimony of the 80's, the outsiders. Not just one but many of the actors became leading figures of film. Even some in the same or following years. Like top gun, breakfast club, st elmo's fire, dirty dancing a list longer and more formidable than any film has in follow up actors. Not that I count myself as a Francis C fan however I can not remember he made a singular bad movie. More so he made great movies that maybe where not the greatest box office hits. Like the 10 years later filmed wind, which still is the best ever made movie around sailing. Salut
failed to mention: 1st computer created backdrop
This movie is just like Teri Garr. She never had a chance to achieve her full potential.
Frederic Forrest and Teri Garr, two long forgotten character actors that were popular in the 70’s and 80’s. Remember Tootsie, The Sting 2, and Mr. Mom?
Too much money was spent on it, in the old studio films shot all on set and the backlot they didnt build everything 1:1, all kinds of tricks and effects were used to achieve a scale that didnt actually exist. Coppola did this on Dracula so I don't know what happened on this one, it must have been a deliberate decision to be excessive.
Not a good movie, but visually cool. A good 'coming home after midnight' movie to pop on and just vegetate.
So, what do you make of La La Land, Larry? I loved One From The Heart, saw it when it came out, hated La La Land, actually walked out on it.
bassavino ism just watching La l land and of course it just reminded me of one from the heart which I love I grew up with the best of the best of musical films, and one from the heart just captures the same romantic vine as does LALLand within it's Eara
Funny, I walked out on La La Land also, but loved One From the Heart, which I saw on the big screen. Years later I called Zoetrope to ask why it never came out on DVD, and they said it had been sold to Turner which shelved it, and would probably not be released on DVD. I then asked if they had any props left, they said no. But they said they would send me a copy of the screenplay, which they did. It's the only screenplay collectible I ever owned, and prize it. The movie came out on laserdisk, but they were almost impossible to find. I found one on eBay and spent over $100! I still keep it. And I naturally got the DVD which came out a year or so after I called.
One aspect of the film, to me the most important, is the unique concept of the story, something I've never seen created in any movie. That of the typical romance breakup and the mirror imaging as each person fills the vacuum. You could tell what they were thinking and feeling. The acting wasn't great, but the idea, style and set, and even the comedy aspects were outstanding. But the subliminal messages were so profound, IMO, it's on my personal list of my top 10. The term "One from the Heart" is actually never used in the film itself, and I feel that it was Coppola's own personal expression. He succeeded.
Clarification about the term "One from the Heart" not in the film, since it is the background theme song. I was only considering the non-musical part of the film.
Coppola and Scorsese both made musicals and both films flopped. Why would they waste their time doing a musical? I've never cared for musicals.
They grew up with them and loved them and never got over wanting to do one
Coppola also made a musical in the late 1960s, Finian's Rainbow (w/ Fred Astaire) that was generally well received and made good profit. With that said, Frederic Forrest was no Fred Astaire. People didn't need a complicated anti-musical by the early 80s.
The first 15 minutes go nowhere. It's not entertaining at all.
Egomania + Cocaine = Bad decisions. I love Teri Garr, but have no urge to see this trainwreck.
How do you know it's a trainwreck if you haven't seen it? You sound like a total douche.