Elrod, objecting to being sent to jail tells Dave of a decayed corpse that he and Kelly had found up in the swamp. At some point he returned to his small hometown before this story begins. They laughed it off as a Hollywood approach to Louisiana. I wanted it to be as seen through the eyes of Dave Robicheaux. Due to his erratic driving, Dave determines Elrod is driving his Lamborghini drunk and sets to arrest him. We knew the ending from the start (“ditto above”). Plot Keywords To see just American films… [He shakes his head sorrowfully]. He suffers remorse. He seeks to protect his moral integrity. Tavernier: Yes, once or twice in Louisiana and twice at his other home in Montana. Tavernier: One of my concerns was to remain faithful to the way Burke sees the Mafia. In the Electric Mist has a bad ending. Cineaste: How did you get on with the actors? I find Burke a writer of genius when it comes to dialog. I cannot comment. The result is a film completed in forty-one days—very, very quickly. The Bayou in southern Louisiana takes center stage in director Bertrand Tavernier’s latest, “In the Electric Mist,” starring Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard and Mary Steenburgen. Cineaste: For your very first feature film, L’Horloger de Saint-Paul (The Clockmaker) in 1974, you took a story by Georges Simenon set in the U.S. and transposed it to Lyon in France. The Mightiest Leveling System Chapter 4470. The only thing I did ask him was what color it was. He had some money to recoup so it was the best way to give him what he wanted. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the film, reports finding another corpse in the Atchafalaya Swamp near the movie set, Robicheaux starts another investigation, believing the corpse to be the remains of a black man who he saw being murdered 35 years before. Having the two versions is something that I wanted. Cineaste: How do you see the new generation of American filmmakers? Leslie Felperin, writing in Variety , compared the two versions thus: “The U.S.-only version of the pic… pares back so much of the backstory, that ends are left lying loose everywhere. I don’t have anything in common with such people. And afterwards you feel manipulated. | In the Electric Mist. Then again, in Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate) , in 1981, you took Jim Thompson’s novel Pop 1280 and changed the setting from a West Texas boom town to French West Africa. His first wife was killed by gangsters. World Defying Dan God Chapter 3820. Cineaste: Your filming of southern Louisiana seemed very heartfelt. A tangled web of killings, past and present, converges in a shocking showdown with stakes that become deeply personal to Robicheaux and his family. In the world. In The Electric Mist in particular appealed to me because of the General [the shade of General John Bell Hood, a Confederate Civil War hero, who helps Robicheaux track down a serial killer], and because of many other things. I like men who fight, who have shadows and who are not always right. Tommy Lee Jones must think so too, because fully a fifth of “In the Electric Mist” running time consists of Tommy driving in his GMC, parking his GMC, standing around his GMC… Only once did we quarrel. The film's final twist devastated audiences, and it … Maybe… perhaps I should not suggest this now, but there could perhaps come a time in the future when a DVD will be released with both versions on it. It would have broken union rules. In an interview in conjunction with the screening of his version of In The Electric Mist at the Utopia Cinema in the ancient southern city of Avignon, the director refused to comment on his dispute with Fitzgerald, which took more than a year to resolve following shooting in the spring of 2007. Out With N Word (02:56) 7. Cineaste: What made you choose In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead [the novel’s full title] from all the Robicheaux books? Tavernier: He’s not from Louisiana but he is from the South. What I say is, “Look at the two versions and make up your own mind.” This will explain the situation. You know, when you see a film in the cinema in the United States, the lights are never completely switched off. The last film I saw in a cinema in the U.S., the man next to me was eating a Chinese meal. You are continually disturbed by people eating next to you. He told me a lot of things I didn’t know about the famous John Brown—that he was in fact a feminist, had a great rapport with the progressive women of his time. . I was attracted purely by Burke’s descriptions of it. Not to mention his dream of a white she wolf who lives in a tree, descending to eat her young each morning [not in the U.S. version but in the book]. The Mist's ending is still one of the most shocking final scenes ever featured in a movie.The sci-fi horror based on Stephen King's novella was released in 2007. So too his manner is horribly cheap and vulgar. I’ve never been in the army. This was very important for me. It is something I wanted. Therefore I chose a producer who had worked with Tommy Lee Jones [Fitzgerald produced the 2005 film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which was directed by Jones]. I knew I could get by. At least the Tavernier version eschews the tacky summing up and oo!-spooky last shot mini twist that makes the U.S.-only version play like a made-for-TV movie.”. A Portrait Of Dave (02:49) 9. It’s closer to Bangladesh than the rest of the U.S. Cineaste: You stayed with him before starting work on the film? And history. No glamor. Tavernier: Not just Europe. It was Tommy Lee Jones’s idea to have him and Levon Helm. I love what it says about the relationship between the past and the present, the way the two are mixed together, the way the present has its roots in the past. This is something I have touched on in some of the films I have made in France. A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of ghostly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen. With Tommy Lee Jones, I talked about art, literature, painting, politics… and Bush. He says they would be too stupid to do the most simple work, such as “removing chewing gum from cinema seats.”. He knows how to evoke the character in a few phrases. This was one of the reasons I tried to find actors from the places where we were filming. You may not remember the intrigue but you remember the characters. DVD saved me in Louisiana. Irk. The Confederate Dead (03:30) 4. And on the soundtrack I use people from Louisiana. He has a very precise and very real vision of the Mafia. But in general we got along very well and his work greatly enriched the scenario. Als een filmploeg neerstrijkt in Louisiana ontdekt hij dat de nieuwe film geproduceerd wordt met de steun van maffiabaas Baby Feet. America's leading magazine on the art and politics of the cinema. Both versions, however, are essentially flawed by the fact that [the] killer’s revelation feels deeply underwhelming. Worth subscribing to his Red Hand Files. Never had a GMC, but my brother-in-law has one, and it’s a pretty sweet ride. He is alone because he doesn’t want his wife to be involved in his work. They don’t even watch old American films, their own cinema. Cineaste: Was there any attraction in the historical French involvement? Cineaste: And your version of the film will be released in Europe? Throughout the two versions of In The Electric Mist , there are differences, some subtle, some major, culminating in an ending in which the European version leaves a great deal—perhaps too much—to the viewer’s imagination, while the U.S. version makes plain exactly what has happened. Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. The European version opens with a lovingly depicted journey through the southern Louisiana bayou. Tavernier: Not reasonably… absolutely happy. Dave Robicheaux is a small town cop. While on an investigation into a series of grisly murders, veteran detective Dave Robicheaux (Jones) navigates his way through the Louisiana bayou and the dark, sultry world of New Orleans mobster "Baby Feet" Balboni (John Goodman). She begins to turn the page but turns back and as we see a close up of the old photo; standing in the back among the Confederate soldiers, is Dave Robicheaux. In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead Quotes Showing 1-13 of 13 “When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.” He was violently against Bush, called him “a false Texan.” We talked about architecture too. Cineaste: Did you talk with the actors about other directors they had worked with? Did you ever think of doing something similar with In The Electric Mist? There’s Clifton Chenier, Nathan Williams, Michael Doucet [the Cajun fiddler who founded the band BeauSoleil ]. Burke says all the mafiosi he ever encountered had no taste and dressed disgustingly. I had already filmed in the states, in Tennessee [ Mississippi Blues, 1984] and New York [a sequence in Round Midnight, 1986]. He said blueish. Get all the lyrics to songs on In the Electric Mist and join the Genius community of music scholars to learn the meaning behind the lyrics. I found that very interesting. Parents Guide. At the same time, the second—102 minutes long, cut very differently from the European version, and containing different scenes—went straight to DVD in the United States. In France I prefer to go to the cinema to watch movies. I told him not to play the character as a mafioso, to forget all the films he had seen. They are badly cared for, full of holes. The film was financed by TF1 international, with some help from the State of Louisiana because it was shot there. It’s already got the disadvantage of being narrated by the protagonist, but the end goes and changes the protagonist for a cute fade out. I try through my films to understand the world, to get to know people and places I know nothing about. Mary Steenburgen, who plays Bootsie, Robicheaux’s wife, is from Arkansas. But there… In New Orleans there wasn’t a single foreign film. Tavernier: The fact that he is such a complex character. | I’ve had Ford trucks, I’ve got a Chevy truck now. For example, I’ve done two films about war. For me an accent is not just a way of talking, it is a way of walking, of talking, of dressing too. One of these, 117 minutes long, was shown at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2009 before being released in European cinemas two months later. He drove me all around New Iberia [the area of southern Louisiana where the film is set]. Jones and nearly all the other principal actors in the film are from Louisiana. He has exactly the accent of that quarter, which is not at all like the accents of other quarters of the city. Tavernier: No, none at all. Old Stack O'Lee Blues (04:16) Performed by Sidney Bechet. John Goodman told me my film is one of the most exact films made about Louisiana. He expresses himself in more prosaic fashion. Unlock This Study Guide Now Dear Tom and Leah, The Bible opens with the story of the creation —In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. He writes romans noirs in which characters come before the intrigue. James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux novels are never 'typical' crime novels. With Harlan Coban it is just intrigue, intrigue, intrigue, with a new development in every chapter. It was something that I felt really close to. Frankie And Johnny (04:07) Performed by Omer Simeon Trio. In The Electric Mist is a film with a split personality. Of course, it could also disappear into its own misty oblivion. He crosses paths with some angry people and, consequently his life is at risk. The Ultimate Student Chapter 3253. I chose to work with an American producer because I knew that I could not make a film in America without doing this. The characters are nothing. In The Electric Mist (02:58) 2. You remember Burke’s characters long after you put the novel down. I did not see any American films when I was in Louisiana. The dramary (drama via doco) and flashbacks irk. It's been a little over 10 years since The Mist dropped that huge ending on us, and now it's time to unpack it all once again. Free Daily Quotes. IN THE ELECTRIC MIST WITH CONFEDERATE DEAD is Burke’s most ambitious work to date, but those who pursue the earlier volumes in this series will not be disappointed. Cineaste: You won’t say anything about it at all? Despite an unconvincing subplot involving psychic phenomena and a stereotypical slam-bang ending, In the Electric Mist With Confederate Dead is as satisfying as any novel Burke has written. Sometimes he feels like having a drink, he says, but he always manages to resist the temptation. I felt I needed to rediscover my language, my culture. I’ve never been to war. Tavernier: Very, very little. In the whole world outside of the United States. Ryan Rilette, who plays Jimmie, is from the Ninth District of New Orleans, where we filmed some sequences. Tavernier: I wanted to show the beauty of the bayou, the light, the landscape. Although he has a wife and family, Robicheaux is also very solitary. I said to myself that I would ask a producer who was a little artistic. Burke insists on the extraordinary stupidity of people who are violent. He is also a recovering alcoholic. Cineaste: How about Levon Helm [formerly one of the leaders of The Band ] who plays the General? A dead body is show in the morgue. Never had a GMC, but my brother-in-law has one, and it’s a pretty sweet ride. I wanted to come back to France to finish the cutting because I couldn’t do it there. Bertrand Tavernier : Nothing. Tavernier: Oh, very well… no real problems. The U.S.-only version of the pic, incidentally, pares back so much of the backstory, that ends are left lying loose everywhere. In New Orleans it was difficult to film because the lorry kept hitting enormous holes in the road, throwing the camera off balance. The story got even more disturbing when filmmaker Frank Darabont wrote a new ending for his 2007 movie adaptation. The Beginning After The End Chapter 321. Tavernier’s preferred version is both more cohesive and thought-provoking, but dawdles getting to the point. He has visited the U.S. on numerous occasions and is author of two books, the monumental 50 ans de cinéma américain (50 Years of American Cinema) , and a collection of interviews with great American filmmakers, Amis américains (American Friends) . y/ˈpiTHē/ Adjective: (of language or style) Concise and forcefully expressive. Throughout the two versions of In The Electric Mist , there are differences, some subtle, some major, culminating in an ending in which the European version leaves a great deal—perhaps too much—to the viewer’s imagination, while the U.S. version makes plain exactly what has happened. Cineaste: So, just as movie buffs debate the significance of the unicorn in Blade Runner and whether or not the Harrison Ford character was himself a replicant, they’ll be able to argue about what you meant with the fishing sequence and Dave Robicheaux’s soliloquy on the latex salamander he’s using as bait [neither in the U.S. version, nor the book]. With those earlier films, I didn’t feel ready to go to the States to film. Cineaste: The way the Mafia is featured in your film is very different than movies such as the Godfather series, in which its leaders have social aspirations and live a life of luxury. Tavernier: In the past, American directors watched French films, knew about French cinema. Not any more. Once again, it's been great. He is somebody who has wounds, who has been hurt by life, but who still fights on behalf of what George Orwell called “the common decency.” He typifies all the virtues of that expression: the sense of collectivity and idealism, generosity, the act of giving without receiving. Subscribe A detective in post-Katrina New Orleans has a series of surreal encounters with a troop of friendly Confederate soldiers while investigating serial killings of local prostitutes, a 1965 lynching, and corrupt local businessmen. Tavernier: Well first I should say that I am a great admirer of all Burke’s books—the ones I have read, and that is most of them. Taglines They put great importance on accents. I made a film about the police and I’m not a cop. 8. Buddy Guy [the blues singer who plays Sam “Hogman” Patin] is from Louisiana. This past summer, Image released Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World, and they will release Tavernier’s In the Electric Mist sometime in spring 2009. | Tavernier: No, it would have been impossible to set it anywhere else other than southern Louisiana. He explained its history, the political context. That didn’t really interest me. Tavernier: No, no, of course, I’m not. A woman gets shot in the chest. He told me so many things about Louisiana. Synopsis He came up with the idea of inventing new relationships between the characters and I threatened to quit the film if he pursued this. I’m absolutely happy with this two-film solution. And which I could make exactly as I wanted. A lot of the roads in Louisiana reminded me of the roads in Cambodia [where Tavernier filmed his 2004 film Holy Lola ]. I like them even if their battle is not likely to succeed. I knew nothing about it, and I wanted to discover it. This bizarre situation is the result of a row between Tavernier and both his American producer, Michael Fitzgerald, and editor, Roberto Silvi, concerning the cutting of the movie. In The Electric Mist . He is someone who has already paid dearly for his moral integrity. I never asked Burke why he called it that. Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. Electric Mist Lyrics: 6000 matches / Are burning on slowly / Ashes to ashes / If faking, the dead will rise / I’ll get on it, I mean, right away / I’ll be making my way through the electric mist 5. In The Electric Mist (2009) A small town detective hunts a serial murderer while contending not only with his own alcoholism but also that of a visiting movie star. Tavernier: I see that as meaning a mixture of mystery and tension. When their disagreements proved impossible to resolve, the only solution was to release two versions of the same film, one for either side of the Atlantic. All that merde in the cinemas... Chris Mosey, a free-lance English journalist now living in France, was formerly correspondent for the English newspapers The Times and The Observer in Stockholm, Sweden. Fitzgerald, head of Ithaca Pictures, supervised Silvi on the cutting of the shorter, faster-paced film for the U.S. market. So I am not reasonably happy, I am absolutely happy. Dave Robicheaux arrests him on DUI charges early in the book. The films I watched in New Iberia were French— La grande illusion, La bête humaine, Touchez pas au Grisbi. As Burke says—he told me this several times—Louisiana is not an American state anymore, it is the Third World. Hij verdenkt maffiabaas Julie – Baby Feet – Balboni achter deze bloederige misdaad maar heeft nog geen bewijs. In a city where you have several universities, very few people care about seeing foreign films. I’ve had Ford trucks, I’ve got a Chevy truck now. He tries to protect his house, which is a kind of oasis for him. He would like to change the world but he knows that the world won’t be changed. Cineaste: How about people in the United States who might prefer to see your version of the film? You don’t have any characters. You discover a country through the eyes of the people who live in it. Tavernier: People in Louisiana call it the War Between the States. Shipwrecked (02:35) 3. 'In The Electric Mist' is a murder mystery based on James Lee Burke's novel. The producer keeps the rights for the States. Cineaste: You have scenes of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina and Bootsie is involved with a charity helping the victims. They were enormously stupid people. A … Detective Dave Robicheaux onderzoekt de moord op een hoertje. Set in Louisiana, a no-nonsense copper Robicheaux investigates the murders of two prostitutes and an ancient murder of a black man. He described them as “slick New York guys”—that was all he said about them. I’d always thought this to be a practice of superstitious and primitive people but I was about to learn that the dead can hover on the edge of our vision with the density and luminosity of mist and that their claim on the earth can be as legitimate and tenacious as our own.”. This time around I had more knowledge, more tradecraft. But I make films about people who are me and not me. Instead it exists in two versions, neither of which has thus far exactly taken audiences and reviewers by storm. They felt they had been stereotyped, said the accents were all wrong. He made it fascinating, complex, dangerous, and I wanted to learn about it for myself. Tavernier: That’s not in the book but it’s something that I wanted very much to have in the movie. Cineaste: What is it you like about Dave Robicheaux? That’s the way Burke and Tommy Lee Jones refer to it. I’ve got a fairly complete synopsis from our preview page: scripted by Jerzy Kromolowski , Mary Olson-Kromolowski and Jones, this is an adaptation of James Lee Burke ’s novel, which centers on Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux. He is haunted by the idea of rediscovering the Louisiana of his childhood, he is willing to fight to rediscover it. It’s an awful move. But when I make a film, I am not a movie buff. The American film starts with Jones, who plays Dave Robicheaux, a cop with a violent past in Vietnam, sitting in a bar ruminating on his alcoholism. Tavernier, with the help of editor Thierry Derocles, kept the picture at its original length, leaving in scenes that, while superfluous to the intrigue, he felt were necessary to explain Robicheaux’s complex personality. In Iberia Parish, Detective Dave Robicheaux (Tommy Lee Jones) is investigating the murder of a young woman and has a chance encounter with a pair of Hollywood stars Elrod Sykes (Peter Sarsgaard) and his girlfriend Kelly Drummond (Kelly Macdonald) who are in the small town to film a Civil War film. I like his style, the melange of introspection, lyricism, description that is very meditative and beautiful and then, of course, the dialog. I told him to remember that he was a third-generation Italian, so no Italian accent. Martial God Asura Chapter 4724: Snowdomain Divine Palace? It was a good way to settle the situation. Numerous scenes depicting graphic violence; bloody fighting, assault with a baseball bat, assault with a handgun and, as mentioned above, a closeup slow motion scene of a woman getting shot in the chest. Tommy Lee Jones must think so too, because fully a fifth of “In the Electric Mist” running time consists of Tommy driving in his GMC, parking his GMC, standing around his GMC… Tommy Lee Jones worked with me on the dialog. I have so many problems—human, logistic—to contend with. It may well become a cult movie for that very reason, examined time and again to explain fundamental differences between American and European ways of moviemaking. Even though over a decade has passed since it was debuted, The Mist is still talked about to this day, mainly because of its controversial jaw-dropping ending. In the Electric Mist Quotes. Tommy Lee Jones stars as Dave Robicheaux, a sheriff investigating a young girl's murder. I can’t say I’d ever heard of this film but decided to give it a go based on the presence of Tmmy Lee Jones and John Goodman and I must say that they didn’t disappoint. And I didn’t want to show it as a French director. I thought it would be exciting to have a background that allowed me to show the state of New Orleans and to say at least something about the political situation in Louisiana today. In the Electric Mist (2009) ... As the movie ends, Alafair is looking through a book on the Civil War when she comes across a photograph of General John Bell Hood and his group of soldiers. It was also very easy to work with John Goodman. When he has explosions of violence, he feels guilty about them. I have an enormous tenderness for Robicheaux. As the movie ends, Alafair is looking through a book on the Civil War when she comes across a photograph of General John Bell Hood and his group of soldiers. He introduced me to people, the local sheriff, took me to all the places that I later used in the film. The mist of the title drifts through the pecan trees as Tommy Lee Jones intones, in voice-over, “In ancient times people put stones on the graves of their dead so their souls would not wander and afflict the living. In the Electric Mist, Movie, 2009 Pictures provided by: francisharley , McAfee Display options: Display as images Display as list Make and model Make and year Year Category Importance/Role Date added (new ones first) Episode Appearance (ep.+time, if avail.) Dave In Action (03:28) 6. Nothing at all. He has a tremendous knowledge about Louisiana and knows the whole story of the War Between the States as it affected Louisiana. I have a liking for him that stems from the first book I read about him. When I talked to people in New Orleans, they were very contemptuous of The Big Easy [Jim McBride’s 1987 thriller set in New Orleans and starring Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin]. 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