DP/30: Gravity, co-writer/director Alfonso Cuarón

[@sadenb]

Children of Men is my favorite film of Alfonso . That is a true masterpiece .

[@paola_2080]

After watching this interview and understanding all odds Alfonso had to go through and all of his and his team efforts to accomplish this movie, I´m absolutely SURE Gravity should win the Oscar for Best Film.

[@gavinhank4933]

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[@deshawnameer6406]

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[@gavinhank4933]

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[@deshawnameer6406]

@Gavin Hank you are welcome :)

[@dp30]

Alfonso was a fan of the lighting, actually... particularly the crack of light in back. It was a bit of an homage to the movie. We shoot some of the same hotel rooms over and over and when there is a situation in which changing it up feels right, I like to do it. I'm sorry that some of you didn't care for it.

[@ironboxfilms]

Great interview! David Poland, you are the man! I love your channel! Keep it up!

[@MirekSasek]

oh my god who is this interviewer, "Was it fun? Was that other thing less fun? What wasn't fun for you?" You sound like you ran out of question, 33mins I get it. I'd have so many. Of course it was incredibly challenging but that's what it takes to create your vision and make it work and profit. Filmmakers love problem-solving and doing everything possible to make their ideas work, despite looking grumpy they love it... I'm glad to hear another long talk about Gravity.

[@CarsonCoots]

The interviewer is David Poland. He also happens to be the dude who is spending valuable time to schedule, shoot, edit and upload this interview and hundreds more so that we can all watch and learn from great filmmakers for free.

[@MirekSasek]

Which I appreciate and admire. I'm a little nobody with no idea how to organise interview with famous individual. But it made me a bit upset seeing Alfonso annoyed by those 'fun' questions and goes like: "Look, let me tell you this so you stop f-ing asking about fun - I enjoyed every single bit of it, everything, but I would never do it again." I just had this need to point it out, since it seems interviewer is the experienced one.

[@alistairobrien8845]

great lighting!

[@bspeiser]

Great interview! Thanks for that.

[@SuperJohnNZ]

After watching the movie .....I thought you are fortunate to have interviewed Alfonso Cuaron. The film was simply brilliant and breathtaking.... I would say - the first real-life experience for moviegoers to experience space.

[@RMF.Studio]

I actually like the single source Rembrandt lighting. Perhaps you could have used a kicker, but it's a nice change. It's also fitting for such a great director.

[@Zombiesnyder13]

Alfonso Cuaron is Stanley Kubrick's legacy.

[@Pantano63]

With Prisoner of Azkaban and Great Expectations??? God no, Paul Thomas Anderson is Kubrick's legacy. But I prefer Children of Men over Gravity, that's a great film.

[@Kfal620]

David, thank you for continuing to put out such amazing interviews. The sheer amount that one can learn about filmmaking from them is just absurd. (And no complaints from me on the lighting--contrasty, sure, but it works well for this)

[@Snake711]

Damn, he's so cool

[@CJLand]

Interesting hearing how much effort (and patience) it took to get this done. However, in the same way that Matrix changed the genre (and technology) of films to follow, Gravity has definitely paved the way for a new breed of movies to follow.

[@BN3K]

such dramatic lighting

[@yabdelm]

that's just his style i guess, he never stops giggling

[@Wills_Duffy]

Great interview, thanks.

[@dancewiththelight]

Wow, he really is a master filmmaker.

[@maddiehad]

the lighthing is great I shot some interiew of photographers with a similar lighting setup. Plus even if you had shot this with a potato this inteview would have looked and sound great :)

[@godsgifttowomen]

GREAT JOB ...

[@benzosbenchmarks8145]

I must be the only guy here not hating on the lighting

[@MattBackstreets]

Yesssssss

[@mehblahmehblah]

Don't worry about it, it looks great and it's very fun!

[@KajiCarson]

Don't think I've been this wrongfully prejudiced against a movie since seeing Brokeback Mountain. Trailer was pretty but otherwise did nothing for me story-wise, thought it was gonna be some posh disaster flick; but it is a fantastic film on all fronts, effectively emotional and doesn't overstay its welcome. Cuarón is a masterful filmmaker. (Also enjoyed the low, intimate lighting in this interview - good job, Mr. Poland.)

[@Dan-ky5es]

29:38 someone doesn't agree with 3D!

[@CamiloSanchez1979]

That was Christian Bale's DP

[@kokomanation]

children of men was also a great film

[@janno142]

Hahaha I was wondering about that watching the interview. Awesome!!

[@JoeSinopoli]

They're being ridiculous. The change-of-pace visually was nice.

[@dylanscreativecloud]

No mention of Children of Men?

[@chaosinorderrr]

Alfanso should come back for the new Harry Potter film!

[@pactrading]

he is from Mexico

[@devinhylton9853]

There was not a financial crash in 1998, that was during a time of sustained economic prosperity. It was solely in 2008.

[@BN3K]

such dramatic lighting heh

[@benzosbenchmarks8145]

Wow that shit hurts man

[@algonzalez3763]

So we´ll never see Gravity II??????

[@dome91talha]

nice split

[@nanoglz]

Mexico

[@medouch]

Gravity was awesome. Now do Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix ! Or even better Frederik Pohl's Gateway

[@Noirbeipengwu]

Fun Fun Fun? Stop asking this question, Gravity is a creation of Art , it's about Rebirth and Emotions. and omg what the hell is so funny? i thank for the interview but the strange laughing from the interviewer" mhhh huheee heee huuu haha" is annoying and weird. but again thanks for doing this interview.

[@Oceansta]

he mentions Chivo like 9 or 10 times :P

[@tomyelhacker]

Mexico.

[@LuisEndera]

ACOJONANTE

[@SuperJohnNZ]

By real-life....I mean more of a 'closer to reality' experience.

[@CamiloSanchez1979]

CGI is not a walk in the park

[@93ScottArick]

29:38 Hahahaha bro dropped something.

[@jeffwhite6563]

Alfonso, you may be a good filmmaker but you need to go back to school to learn basic science. You movie is a total BS from standpoint of everything. I have just spoken to an engineer from NASA to confirm it. He told me that you can 'poke holes' in this movie forever. Some facts: - one cannot travel long distance in spacesuit with personal unit only especially towing another person; - debris of destroyed satellite tend to stay in a cluster with smaller ones falling and burning. They do not cause any 'chain reaction'. This is what they saw when Chinese tested their interceptor. - Many of communication satellites are staying on geostationary orbit about 60,000 km above the ground. You simply cannot take them out in a few minutes at that great distance. Not to mention that the debris would fan out and the probability to hit anything at 60,000 km is almost zero. And their speed will be small because they would be flying against the gravitation. - ISS makes one orbit in 90 minutes. Any debris chasing the ISS or shuttle at higher speed would go to a different more elliptical orbit, thus probably never hitting the ISS or the shuttle, especially every 90 minutes. But even if we say that somehow mystically the debris stay on the same orbit as the shuttle, you would need to take the speed difference and divide by the length of the orbit. You may end up with some debris hitting the ISS once a few days, definitively not every 90 minutes. - ISS is at 400 km above the ground, not 600 km. - when something bad happens it is always Russian fault (or Chinese). Bottom line - this movie is another Hollywood idiocy.

[@skateordie002]

Good god, you don't enjoy any films, do you? MOST PEOPLE KNOW THAT BUT THEY DON'T CARE BECAUSE IT'S A WELL WRITTEN, WELL DIRECTED, WELL ACTED FILM WHERE THE CREATORS ACTUALLY GAVE A CRAP ABOUT THE STORY THEY WERE TELLING. And what the hell are you talking about "...when something bad happens it is always Russian fault (or Chinese)..." What. Did you even see the movie? This movie is pure gold and a god-given gift for current Hollywood standards. So stop being so dang analytical, and enjoy the thing because, guess what? It's not a documentary, IT IS A WORK OF FICTION and a DANG good one at that.

[@Jeppe0703]

Robert Lugo Amen! The opposite situation is occuring with Interstellar right now. The amount of people praising it because it deals with complex scientific theories is ridiculous. Personally, I couldn't care less about the science. Focus on the story it tries to convey instead of fifth-dimension bullshit, and you realize that Nolan's so-called "masterpiece" isn't even that great.

[@skateordie002]

Jeppe Lauridsen Haven't seen it yet. I intend to because, regardless of whether I've seen better directors films, I still enjoy Nolan's work.

[@sadenb]

This interviewer is horrible . I have been seeing it in all of his interviews.. Lack of proper knowledge . Questioning a great film-maker with these rubbish questions ...