James Ivory on CALL ME BY YOUR NAME | TIFF 2018 

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Charlie Kelmeckis I didn’t understand

Perfect answer!

when he say that

@@soullight2932 the question starts 40:30

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James Ivory wrote the screenplay for Call Me By Your Name, he didn't direct it. (Luca Guadagnino did.)

+Heidi S He’s not.....he’s just....answering questions like a normal person? Chill

Easier said than done. (They are also very different kinds of jobs and not everyone can do both or even wants to. Ivory has obviously directed lots.) There was a process of trying to make this movie happen with Ivory directing... and when that didn't work out, then him and Guadagnino co-directing, but that didn't work out either. Raising money just isn't that simple, you know. Financiers turned the movie down for years. Ivory asked for a longer shooting schedule and lots more money for his version. The $12 million budget that Ivory requested still would have been a fairly small budget for a movie nowadays, but clearly the financiers didn't believe there would be audience for it to merit the investment. Guadagnino managed to make the shoot much shorter (and get people to work for very little money), and cut the budget to much less than a third of what it would have been with Ivory, and so after years of trying to get financing for the movie they were finally able to do it. It just wasn't happening with Ivory directing. (And personally I'm glad Guadagnino directed it, I'm sure the movie is better for it.)

@@bluenorth3965 I said "And personally I..." meaning that was my opinion, and I absolutely stand by it. Of course they are both very talented. My opinion that Guadagnino was a better fit for this movie and made a better movie than Ivory would have is based on what Ivory would have wanted to do, and what Guadagnino did differently - with what I feel were better choices. For instance, Ivory wanted Chiara to have a bigger role, wanted to cast Shia LaBeouf as Oliver, wanted more explicit scenes (such as genitals shown, and complained about Luca choosing not to shoot that way), wrote voice-over narration (aaghh...) and much more dialogue (I think silence and non-verbal communication worked better for instance for the morning after Midnight and at the train station), etc. I also liked Luca adding French, and his choice of locations (though I'm sure Ivory's choice of Sicily would have been fine, too), and Luca's choice of music - including persuading Sufjan Stevens into providing music for the movie. Had Ivory directed, the movie would have been very different. If you feel it might have been as good or even better, fine, I just disagree then, but not based on talent evaluation, but based on Ivory's plans and comments vs. the movie Luca made.

@@bluenorth3965 ​ Yeah, go figure why, but Ivory liked him for the role - even production company didn't like the idea. But LaBeouf read for the role and was reportedly set to be cast back in 2015, and Ivory said it would have worked. He has commented on it himself in at least one interview, and it was been mentioned in a few articles, I read them a couple of years ago, can't remember which ones, but even the movie's wiki page mentions LaBeouf. I think he would have been totally miscast, and I'm very glad with Guadagnino's entirely different choice for Oliver.

​@@bluenorth3965 Maurice is a better movie than Call Me By Your Name so there's that.

@@rumblefish9 They are both wonderful films, very different in almost every way I can imagine, so I see no point in pitting one against the other. It all comes down ultimately to personal taste and preference.