Once he got it he left my movie with $350,000 in his pocket and his movie contract. Besides, he wanted Cannon’s backing for his Tough Guys Don’t Dance film. Godard not only put both takes of it in the film, he broke the fourth wall, recounting in scathing detail how Mailer upped and went in “a ceremony of star behavior.” He later scoffed at the claim that he’d offended the writer.
Having filmed just one scene, the Mailers left. Having arrived in Nyon, a small Swiss town in the Paris-born Godard’s adopted homeland, Mailer and his daughter Kate were dismayed to learn that Godard had become intrigued by a thought that there might be an incestuous subtext to Shakespeare’s tragedy.
And once production did start, it hit another rock. Cannon counter-claimed that Godard was over-paying himself, something Godard ascribed to a 30% drop in the dollar-franc exchange rate between 19. Godard claimed that the first four checks from Cannon bounced. I need the money I’ll do the stupid thing.’”Īlmost immediately, there was conflict. I thought it was a joke but an hour later he was holding it up to the press, shouting ‘Godard, Mailer, Shakespeare, King Lear, Cannon!’ People were cheering and I thought, ‘What the hell. Golan tricked me into signing a contract on a paper napkin in a hotel bar at Cannes.
They think they’re film producers but they’re just clumsy sharks, gangsters who want to be noblemen. “I should never have gotten involved in this nonsense,” he told BBC filmmaker Christopher Sykes in 1986. RELATED: Cannes Film Festival Full Coverageĭespite the irreverent glee that heralded the inauguration of the project, Godard quickly went sour on the project.
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