'History of a marriage': Noah Baumbach talks about the (controversy) fight scene

To the New York pijos you have to love them, at least those who do their job very well.Luckily for everyone, Noah Baumbach is one of them.

Although he premiered with the appreciable ‘Kicking and Screaming’ (1995), it cost him a few more work more recognizable among a criticism that, now, desperately waits for his restful urban dissertations.

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In 2005 everything changed and, after gaining a perpetual hole in our heart to sign with his colleague the script of the huge 'Life Aquatic' (Wes Anderson, 2004), premiered 'a story of Brooklyn' (2005) and becamea filmmaker who, definitely, follow the track.

'Frances has' (2012),' Mistress America '(2015) or' The Meyerowitz Stories' (2017) were giving us the reason and this year, by the hand of Netflix, he is again in the pools thanks to 'History ofA marriage '(2019), his meticulous decomposition of a divorce with Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver of protagonists of the film and the last great debate of #filmtwitter: the scene of the fight in Charlie's apartment, is it the peak ofYour interpretations or a non -agreed nonsense?

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“They have lost their voices, they have lost the notion of who they are.They are trying to discover what they believe now.I think it is a dangerous place for a couple to meet, ”says Baumbach about that scene in an interview published in Entertainment Weekly."It was the most difficult scene I have filmed in a movie, but also the most rewarding".

Throughout the film, the charisma, attractiveness, talent and sensitivity of Johansson and Driver is unmatched.Baumbach manages to catch you in their proposal and they make you involve and take sides, even knowing that the result is rigged because, as occurs outside the rooms, we all lose in the end.Therefore, when they are empty, naked in a simple and half -furnished stage in which, for the first time, they talk about what has happened to them without an escort, witness or family that intervenes, the actors and the filmmaker unleash a formal literalitythat, not a few detractors, has expelled from the title.

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"I wanted you to feel them in that empty space," explains the director.“What was very important for me was to have that type of kitchen and living room to be able to see them in separate rooms, so that they cannot necessarily see each other but we see both.It was almost like having a divided screen integrated into the panoramic shots ”.

"It's like a dance, or how to prepare an action scene," he emphasizes.“I had to be choreographed very carefully, both for the plan we had to film it and why the actors had true guidelines.I think that gives them the freedom to get lost, they know that they will return somehow ”.

The division is drastic, which for many is one of the most intense moments of a title to frame, it is not for others but the sample of the artifice that its director and screenwriter has perpetrated.One way or another, the truth is that Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver seemLower Cabachilla Draft but tremendous critical weight.

"At first, Charlie is the one who always moves away.And she is following him, she is trying to concentrate on what she is trying to say, and he continues to find strange jobs for the apartment, how to pick up Henry's backpack or save things in her room.He is looking for distractions because, at least at that time, I think he is afraid of what will happen if he begins to really commit to the conversation, ”explains the filmmaker about the development of the characters in the scene.“They don't know where to put all this pain, so they put it in that language, in those physical gestures.Charlie is a rather controlled person, something Adam embodies in a very beautiful way in the movie.So, when you lose control, you have a price ".

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And after the final explosion conducted by a contained rabies that almost definitely condemns the character of Driver (both for the blow to the wall and for his absurd speech of "he could have done things worse"), the calm comes in the form of a penalty, exhaustion and, of course, fear.All with a small juice brik as the only witness to the emotion trip.

Perhaps only then could they understand that their separation is as absurd as it is inevitable, or it may only be due to Baumbach's inability to explain in another way how the slowest half of a couple who wants to discover that, necessarily, they have necessarily break away.

"I wanted to find a physical way of expressing what has been happening emotionally," he explains."The presence of juice makes me sad.It is recent history, they still live a time when things, maybe, could be saved.Everything happened very fast, they crossed the line of a civilized conversation to a total fight ”.

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"It does not reach‘ Being Alive ’without going through that position, in the end," says Baumbach.“Even in this scene, which may contain the most controversial elements, you still feel that intimacy.I always felt, throughout the movie, that love exists in each scene ”.

'History of a marriage', written and directed by Noah Baumbach, with a beautiful work by Randy Newman in his soundtrack, with Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver as sublime poster heads of a cast in which it is also worth pointing out the worksDe Laura Dern, Alan Alda and Ray Liotta, is now available on Netflix.

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