The Writer Speaks: Billy Wilder
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Billy Wilder (six-time Academy Award-winning writer) gives his advice on topics such as story structure, casting, character, cinematography, originality, collaboration, and the process of adaptation, among others. Interviewed by Jack Lemmon. Filmed in 1995.
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Remembering one of the BEST directors of the 20th Century. He died 19 years ago today, but has never been forgotten. THE APARTMENT! SABRINA! DOUBLE INDEMNITY! SUNSET BOULEVARD! STALAGE 17! BALL OF FIRE! And of course, SOME LIKE IT HOT! So many terrific films he left behind for us to enjoy well into centuries to come. Thank you Billy Wilder!!!
The Apartment is an absolute masterwork. Incredible screenplay, well fleshed-out and complex characters, a tightrope-like navigation of the comedy-tragedy line, and of course the triumphant yet still beautifully understated ending. I find Wilder's catalogue a bit hit and miss, but he was undoubtedly an incredible talent, and the world is a far better place for his contributions
I love him as a writer, as a director, he is the absolute BEST . And what I could never understand was how he truly grasped the english language, he had such a perfect sense of the language. as an Austrian coming to America, it was not his native language but the perfect way he wrote all those scripts, inserting all those amazing jokes at the right time, that is pure genius!!!!!!
And he won three Oscars for writing-scripts-in English!!! Top that.
he always said that he learned english listening to the footbal matches on radio. hours after hours, days after days, months after months. determind guy. Thank God!
May be Billy Wilder thought and wrote in German and translated in English, ably supported by Charles Bracket and I L Diamond, the latter he considered as half his Oscars....Nazi Germany and Post WW1 Germany was little in substance, more of images, rhetoric, and personalities, (and of course poverty)... Billy Wilder possibly used this in matching actors to the roles in his pictures...
@@SomnathMazumder370 nope. Almost everybody that knows Wilder attests to his "razor blade" brain and sharp wits and clever one liners. Roger Ebert said that as in his movies, in real life he is funny, alert and sharp-tongued. He also said that he had about him an easy tactlessness that would be quickly redeemed by humor, and in a charming way.
What a mind. I could listen to him for hours. Is there anyone remotely like him nowadays.
+doc not a chance
Lemmon and Wilder, dream team.
This needs to be put in a museum, its a valuable document on american art
Yesssss
Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon together again. Awesome.
Hello Kim how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family
Not any one can match Billy Wilder pure genius
Hitchcock but not for wit. But for cinematic raphsody with Vertigo. And for thudding terror a clutch of them. Wilder never put aside his irony and dark though it was Hitchcock darker and therefore deeper. He got close though in The Lost Weekend. All co-written but Hitch assigned that role to the best although moderated over endless dinners.
Brilliant writer and director. A true artist with a pragmatic approach to his work.
I am so proud to be born the same the same day as Billy Wilder. No wonder why I love his films.
I've seen "Some like it hot" more than 100 times. I can't get enough of that movie. 👍 Bravo, Billy Wilder. 👍
I’ve seen most of his movies in cinema, here, in Paris, France, where in small cinemas they had Billy Wilder’s festival. And it’s really great and instructive and inspiring and motivating to see Billy Wilder himself!!
Pascal
Lucky!
One of the greatest filmmakers ever Billy was a genius
Sunset Boulevard made a real impact on me so I remember enjoying it like a piece of art on cellulite Unforgettable film that's why I was interested in this interview piece thank you for the presentation mr. Wonderful my favorite actor of all times one of them anyway thank you Mr Jack Lemmon
The best! Billy Wilder, the Great
he continues to be so underrated it's ridiculous
He's not underrated. He's considered to be one of the greatest, some consider him the greatest.
Not underrated anymore.
Hes not underrated what i think you mean is young film goers dont really talk about him as a filmmaker. For a film critic like me and other film buffs know very much about Billy Wilder he is a legend
@@dvlarry dood has 6 oscars,how is he underrated.
@@LYCANCLANTEAM exactly
He has made more of my favourite movies than any other director. But William Holden appeared in about 22 movies before doing Boulevard.
I love this movie! It wad filmed at the Del Coronado! Billy Wilder, was AMAZING! 👍⭐🏆⭐👍💕
Hello Cecillie how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family
At a pre-release try out showing for ''The Lost Weekend,' considered very controversial at the time because of its alcoholism theme, Wilder and his gang were on tenterhooks wondering how the audience would react.
At the end of the movie Wilder and co. were huddled in the lobby waiting for the audience to emerge.
The first guy came out muttering: "Never again..never again."
Wilder approached him and asked: "what do you mean, you are never going to drink again?"
"No! the guy replied. I'm never going to the movies again!".
dashercronin I hope he meant it as it was it was the best film he had ever seen and mo other film could ever compare or come close to it!
Mr Wilder, thank you for "nobody's perfect'>
The only person I can think of who was better than Billy Wilder is Billy Wildest
Haha
That's hilarious. I laughed out loud.
LOL Moe :)
But, what if Billy Wilder was wilder than Billy Wildest? In which case, Billy Wildest wouldn't be the wildest at all. Why? Because Billy Wilder *is wilder* than even the wildest.
Never heard of him
after viewing matthew weiner he is so inspiring, I have never sold a thing but my writing is so important to me I probably will never give up.
Billy is as amusing as his films !!!!!
... love how he quotes Capra at 13:05.
My grandfather’s name is Bill Wilder. I entered his name into Google a few years ago out of curiosity to see what would come up. I came across the director’s Wikipedia page. That is how I first heard about him
You GOTTA check out some of Billy Wilder's movies! He really was a great, great director. I recommend "Sunset Boulevard" and "Double Indemnity" if you're in the mood for drama, or "Some Like It Hot" or "Sabrina" if you want comedy.
My absolute favorite film director
When I think of Sunset Blvd. My eyes tear up. That card game with those giants. Keaton with his silent expression of woe, and then that ending, combined with that score mixing strings and a little thermin, Gloria destroys us all. My god....
This is phenomenal.
To me - Billy Wilder is god. He has made about the best movies ever, together with Hitchcock.
Well, you know what, thank you You Tube! Billy Wilder is by far the greatest movie maker of all time. To have this recording of his thoughts on making movies is invaluable. HE DID IT. I hope I can too.
He was able to really catch the Human Condition and the American Psyche better than any native Americans. A genius and a poet
I mean.. If he spent most of his life around a camera- an interview isn’t such a surprising treasure- but I agree overall. Then again there don’t seem to be any of say, Kenji Mizoguchi, or the composer Maurice Ravel - so we very well could have never had this.
My understanding is that all the recorded interviews - many broadcasting companies toss out the old film / archival audio by the kilo without knowing what gold is in there - a horrid shame now for anyone who loves these kinds of video’s - thankfully though much has survived, film’s as well.
Thank you for uploading this. I am a film student and I am studying him. This video is very helpful.
What a great record of this interview. Full of true knowledge. Thanks for sharing it.
Great writer you listen to what he has to say if you want to be a great writer
The Maestro. Often imitated, never duplicated.
Another great film.
About the funniest
Films ever written,
Director.
I love his films,
Amazing management of
Pen, direction,
Imagination.
Excitement!!!
It’s just heaven listening to him talk and consider these questions…
Cant forget his gem, Fedora. Superb
18:20 "The studios are now just copying successful pictures." So sad. I have faith though in the independent scene. With technology moving so fast, it will only be a short period of time where studios are not so heavily needed.
Wilder is a master of THEME - something long forgotten in modern writing of any kind.
His best work is " the apartment" ❤
Legendary
The Apartment
Some Like it Hot
Sunset Boulevard
Great interview!
What was that first film I did....Double Indemnity :)
Sunset Boulevard
Some Like it Hot
Sabrina
Double Indemnity
The Apartment
One Two Three
Stalag 17
The Lost Weekend
I am only halfway there....
+Rajiv I would include Ace In The Hole with the greats. Much of the dialogue is equal to his best.
Witness for the Prosecution is insane as well, masterpiece! Marlene Dietrich ❤️
Would add three he cowrote with Brackett and others directed:
-Ninotchka
-Midnight
-Ball of Fire
Love the way the female characters of these 3 movies were written. Real characters, with psychology and feelings, instead of cartoons. Talking about not just the leading ladies (Garbo, Colbert, Stanwyck), but also the supporting female roles.
I'd add Kiss me stupid
@@rdanielr93 yes another really good one
"We didn't have a leading lady. We were calling Pola Negri and she was talking in Polish to me with an accent you would not believe!" LOL
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What a legend he is!! Totally amazing.
Great Stuff !!!
Fascinating.
A true LEGEND!!!
Magical!
Just put Billy WIlder and Alfred Hitchcock in a room together and that's all the entertainment the world will ever need. Perfection!
Genio assoluto 😎
ace in the hole ? was that him ? kirk douglas, great movie...
Yes that damning indictment of a crooked, selfish media was directed by Wilder.
Billy, you are choking the napkin! (on 22:00)
Billy Wilder is God. Nobody better then him. Watch his classic movies. There the best ever made.
i just love this man]
Ironically would change your mind when he said Nobody's Perfect was absolutely brilliant of the dialogue ending but then again I'm thinking yes the people that AR perfect are Billy Wilder and Neil Simon but then again there I go well Nobody's Perfect LOL
Nobody is perfect ? BILLY WILDER IS !🎉🎉
Jack mentions in his narration that Billy made more classics than any of his contemporaries...I love Wilder...but it arguable...that Ford, William Wyler & Hitchcock have an even more striking ration of classics...
An observation about two year old Billy Wilder being in a dress - for that time all infants and toddlers of any gender wore skirted garments (dresses). Typically boys did not wear britches until they could pull up and fasten the pants by themselves. However, it is entirely possible that the Wilders may have indeed wanted a girl. I do understand that this commentary lent itself better to the premise of this story. Thanks for letting me have my say.
Let us proclaim the mystery of faith
"I tell you.."
Then, he *tells* us.
What is he talking about at 17:27 with Hitchcock? I couldnt make it out thru the audio and accent.
He mentioned Hitchcock would open up a scene by panning from black, which was actually the jacket of one of the characters and the camera would then move to reveal it was the back of the character (as opposed to being just 'black') and move into the scene. Billy Wilder hated such 'gimmicks' ha ha!
He's talking specifically about Rope, a movie made in "8 reels" to give the illusion of one long take.
thanks!
Orange Betsy Hes on about Hitchcock, stating the difficulty he mustve gone through ti get the film to be entirely in one shot (actually this was logistically impossible then, so he used 8 reels but didnt cut in them), seeing it as pointless. "Who Cares?" as Wilder says.
of course times have changed, a movie like Birdman did the same trick and was most lauded for it, eveidently now audiences do care for it
thanks Dizzy Blu!
Matthau was the perfect embodiment of the Wilderian rascal.
The greatest director Paramount ever had on their lot apart from Ernst Lubitsch
Yes
What year is this interview from?
1995.
@@TheFireIdol - Thanks so much.
Please provide english subtitles.
What year is this?
We filmed this in 1995.
This is my opinion (and probably many others) - Billy Wilder was the greatest Hollywood director/writer/producer of all time.
I knew it when I was 18. I can't watch anything today. 😩
The first minute of this video ends with the same words written on Billy Wilder's grave stone...."I'm a writer, but then nobody is perfect".
No one wrote and directed better stuff in the U.S. when he was releasing Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, and The Apartment.
Film school in one hour
I hope one day AI will allow us to make sequels to all of these classic movies.
I understand that one morning at breakfast Wilder began to notice that his wife was in a big tizzy over something.
He asked: "Vots de matter?"
She answered: "You have forgotten, haven't you?"
He said: "Forgotten vot?"
She replied: "MY BIRTHDAY!"
He responded: "Please. Not whole I am eating!"
My kind of guy! I don't care for birthdays either
If he were alive today and I was a studio head I'd still give him money to make a picture
He is descending the stairs
Watch the black and white English movie starring Carol baker baby doll.
Descending the stairs
Watch the trailer first.
The 23rd Miss universe contest was held in Asia for the first time in the history of the contest.
Why Asia?
Who was born there in Asia in that year???
S is the winner
What was the number one song on the day baby S was born???
📺
Amparo Munoz Miss Spain became Miss Universe but she gave up her crown within a few months.
The first runners up was not made the new Miss Universe that year.
The throne remained vacant that year.
For whom???
S is the winner
Man is an icon .. bearing in mind the McCarthy period and all
📻
Amparo Munoz was crowned Miss Universe. Her crown dropped.
Who kicked it???
Answer :
Angie baby by Helen reddy
The almighty
Has three S in his name.
I didn't lie about anything
You got funny Bill ,laughable to all your cinemas.
All great wisdom, completely lost in today's Hollyweird where art is a dirty word and CGI and kindergarten level plots rule. More than ever, the writer is treated as the low person on the totem-pole.
I once tried to show Double Indemnity to a twenty-something would-be and got the dismissive reply "I don't do black and white movies".
What about the Miss World controversy in the same year?
S is the winner
Who became the 23rd Miss Universe?
S is the winner
Spain never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never never
Won Miss Universe except the year baby S was born.
S is the winner
I like his film staring the human skin lampshade & Amazonian style shrunken heads, shot at Buchenwald, 8 days after the end of World War II, called "Lets Frame the German For Crimes They Didn't Commit"!