"Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky has revealed that he found the world of ballet 'insular' and 'self-involved'.
Speaking at the BFI London Film Festival press conference for the thriller - which stars Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel and Mila Kunis - Aronofsky said that he initially struggled to research his latest movie.
'The ballet world was a very hard world to get into,' he commented. 'Usually when you make a movie doors open up. You say, 'I want to make a movie' and everyone's like 'okay'. The ballet world just couldn't care. They're just very, very insular and self-involved. They're very focused, so it took a very long time.'"
The world of ballet should be proud of themselves for failing to swoon before the really insular and self-involved world. I know I'm proud. Maybe they reacted that way because, a little bemused, they realized they'd get a raw deal.
That said, I don't know how to feel about this statement (Swan Lake is indispensable):
That said, I don't know how to feel about this statement (Swan Lake is indispensable):
Discussing the inspiration for the film, Aronofsky said: "We were just trying to do a movie version of the ballet Swan Lake. We went back the source material, which is about a maiden who's captured by an evil force and turned into a half-swan, half-human creature. We just tried to dramatise that as a movie.
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