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Fallguy

21st November 2002, 06:47 PM

Sorry,
I have looked on the web site ( www.solaristhemovie.com ), but its all flash which is taking ******* ages to load..... :(

Has anyone seen it? I downloaded the trailer last night (after about 3 hours, lol) and it looked alot like Sphere in space. Anyone read the book? Apparently it is based on a book.... I've never read it though (or even heard of it).

Fallguy

Gservo

21st November 2002, 07:38 PM

What Is Solaris?
(for thos who dont know)
Steven Soderbergh, who wrote and directed an upcoming remake of the classic SF film Solaris, said his film differs markedly from Andrei Tarkovsky's original 1972 movie, with its own central metaphor. "Within the context of the movie, the planet Solaris ... is basically a metaphor for anything that you don't know for sure," Soderbergh said in an interview while promoting the film. "So it can be a metaphor for God. It can be a metaphor for death. It can be a metaphor for love. It is a mirror in that regard, which is why everybody's having so much trouble with it, and why I purposefully kept it physically sort of inert and never tried to explain it or have it be active in a way that seemed human."

George Clooney and Natascha McElhone stars in Soderbergh's Solaris, which, like Tarkovsky's movie, is based on Polish SF author Stanislaw Lem's book of the same name. It's a difficult film about adult themes, the director said. "Because the entire movie is about whether you can surrender yourself to something that is unknown," he said. As for Tarkovsky's movie, Soderbergh said, "I'm a big fan of his. I've seen all the films several times. And there's clearly a mood that's common to all of them that I've found really appealing. But there are a lot of influences through [my] movie. At the same time, ... I feel like it's not quite like anything I've made before. It's just different. There's some things in it that feel like things I've done, but while I was making it, I certainly felt that it was something different for me, which is why I think I was so anxious during the making of it. I felt I didn't have the sort of handrails I guess I usually have when I'm making a film. Just every day seemed uncharted, completely." Solaris opens Nov. 27.