{"id":12066,"date":"2015-07-27T17:12:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T17:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/garcia-marquez-kurosawa\/"},"modified":"2015-07-27T17:12:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T17:12:37","slug":"garcia-marquez-kurosawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/garcia-marquez-kurosawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez \/ Kurosawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kino-obscura.com\/post\/91776836653\/garcia-marquez-kurosawa\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">kino-obscura<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kino-obscura.com\" target=\"_blank\">David Liu<\/a> | 20 September 2014<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/86f4cabe6019843f3ce054df5406118b\/tumblr_inline_n7ib8jMh9O1qay58d.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In October 1990, Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez visited Tokyo\u00a0during the shooting of Akira Kurosawa\u2019s penultimate feature, <em>Rhapsody in August<\/em>.\u00a0Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, who spent some years in Bogota as a film critic before penning landmark novels such as <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/em> and <em>Love in the Time of Cholera<\/em>, spoke with Kurosawa for over six hours on a number of subjects. Below is a partial transcription of the conversation, first published by the\u00a0Los Angeles Times in 1991.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez:<\/strong> <em>I don\u2019t want this conversation between friends to seem like a press interview, but I just have this great curiosity to know a great many other things about you and your work. To begin with, I am interested to know how you write your scripts. First, because I am myself a scriptwriter. And second, because you have made stupendous adaptations of great literary works, and I have many doubts about the adaptations that have been made or could be made of mine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Akira Kurosawa:<\/strong> When I conceive an original idea that I wish to turn into a script, I lock myself up in a hotel with paper and pencil. At that point I have a general idea of the plot, and I know more or less how it is going to end. If I don\u2019t know what scene to begin with, I follow the stream of the ideas that spring up naturally.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez:<\/strong> <em>Is the first thing that comes to your mind an idea or an image?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kino-obscura.com\/post\/91776836653\/garcia-marquez-kurosawa\" class=\"tmblr-truncated-link read_more\">Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>kino-obscura: David Liu | 20 September 2014 In October 1990, Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez visited Tokyo\u00a0during the shooting of Akira Kurosawa\u2019s penultimate feature, Rhapsody in August.\u00a0Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, who spent some years in Bogota as a film critic before penning landmark novels such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, spoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-38C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}