Stockholm Film Festival

At 12 o'clock noon I finished the last shots of ”Frankenstein” During the lunch hour Joe, Udo and Arno all had haircuts and I began writing the opening scenes of this film.
At the beginning of the first film I expected to have the actors improvise the dialogue after I had given them the scene and certain key lines to say. I realised immediately that the actors in this large production set-up were too selfconscious and nervous to operate this way.
I brought my secretary from New York on the next day and brought her along each morning while I dictated each scene which she then typed out on the set, just before the scenes were shot. This unique and bizarre way of making not just one, but two films, that were not planned in this way, gave both films a one-of-a-kind tone of voice and a kind of lunacy that would never have been produced in any kind of conventional script. It also allowed the story to come unguarded off the top of my head. Even I was surprised by the life of their own that these two films seem to have.
Like the earlier improvised films, I would never try to do anything like this again but I am very glad that I had the chances to do things in these unconventional ways. And none of my producers ever bothered to question me if I could really do it.
Paul Morrissey

Medverkande

Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Stefania Cassini, Vittorio De Sica

Producent

Andrew Braunsberg, Jean Pierre Rassam, Carlo Ponti

Manus

Paul Morrissey

Foto

Luigi Kuveiller

Musik

Claudio Gizzi

Talat språk

English

 

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