Father Geek on a rainy Eeyore's Birthday here in central Texas with a second Latin-AICN report within a single day. WOW, South of the Rio Grande film reports are rare as hen's teeth and now I've got two in a day. Its like the olden days of Latin-AICN (years ago) when LOBO would be sending in weekly postings mostly on Mexican cinema and Coffin Joe Jr, would be giving me news from Brasil (mostly) to post once a week... I miss those masked-tag-team reports of their's... they were giving us really early news on some great Latin cine... oh well, here's the word from Movieholic down on the Amazon somewhere.
According to Cinema em Cena (www.cinema.art.br), while Fernando Meirelles (Oscar nominated) is busy filming The Constant Gardener, his script partner Bráulio Mantovani (Oscar nominated) is focused in scripting Intolerância 2 (not the definitive title – this provisory title is said to be simply an amusing joke between Meirelles and Mantovani), but who knows.
Interviewed by journal Folha de São Paulo, Mantovani said that already send the 172 pages of the script to Meirelles. According to him, it’s only the first treatment and will probably be reduced in a second version to stop the film being too long.
Despite the project being considerate as some sort of sequel for Intoler̢ncia or Intolerance (classic of 1916, directed by D.W. Griffith Рit was about the history of mankind through times), the similarities between the two films end in the title.
The story of Intolerância 2 is unique, involving six different countries, with six characters, everyone talking is own language. It will show the routine of those persons, and illustrating the contradictions of economic globalization, with centre of attention in its good and bad aspects.
The main characters are: a poor young Brazilian elevated to medium-high life condition; a terrorist that adopts the principles of Islamic fundamentalism; a Chinese girl that sustains himself with a low job while she dreams in having a higher life condition; a couple of Kenyan runners; a north-American woman that has a job of releasing tendencies; and a Occidentalized young Arab girl.
According to Mantovani, the lives of all of them become linked by the help of a big corporation, yet without a name, referred in the script only by “The Mark”. This corporation supports the athletic field where the Kenyans run; promotes a video competition that calls the Brazilian attention; buys the products fabricated by the enterprise where the Chinese works; and there it goes. In the end, all the characters will reunite in the Arabs Emirates.
All points that Meirelles will stay involved with The Constant Gardener for the rest of the year, so Intolerância 2 will only begin its filming in 2005. Until then, the duo hopes to get new resources to finance the production.
