So we’ll never see Ghost Dog team up with the Lone Man from The Limits of Control, for example. So there’s something in there, but I try not to analyze that too much. In Mystery Train, Masatoshi played a young guy on a rock and roll pilgrimage, and this time, his character is on a kind of William Carlos Williams pilgrimage. In this case, there are some similarities. I thought, “Now he’s a middle-aged guy, and he’s a wonderful actor - what a great chance I would have to have him be the angelic character that appears here.”ĭo you think of your characters as inhabiting the same universe? The only actor I did intend while I was writing was Masatoshi. I usually write scripts for specific actors and hope that then I can trick them into doing it somehow. It becomes that, but that wasn’t my intention. I’m thinking of the scene toward the end of the film featuring the Japanese actor, Masatoshi Nagase, who appeared in your 1989 film, Mystery Train. ![]() There’s even some rhyming with your own filmography. I didn’t want them to be dog-jackers I was intentionally not having some of these things pay off in the expected way. They’re a little motif woven in there without intended meaning I didn’t want it to pay off in the end like, “Laura pregnant with twins.” Or the scene with the guys in the car who warn Paterson that his dog could get stolen. And you see that same sort of rhyme in other scenes, like with the twins that keep re-appearing. Yeah, I think there’s a yin-yang thing about them that makes them have a very compatible kind of love story. Even though they have wildly different attitudes toward creativity, those perspectives actually complement each other. The poetic nature of the film also applies to Paterson’s relationship with his wife Laura, played by Golshifteh Farahani. I think that’s why he’s able to drift and be a poet, because he doesn’t have to worry about any of that. He likes not thinking about what’s he going to wear, what time he gets to work, or what he’s going to do after dinner. ![]() In this film, the variations involve a guy who’s very much tied to his routine. ![]() And obviously a simple metaphor for variations are the days of the week and how things change slightly. One of my favorite things in all art forms is variations, whether it’s in the music of Bach or in the work of Andy Warhol. I think it’s a film in the form of a poem rather than a poem in the form of a film, if that makes any sense. Jim Jarmusch (Photo: Getty Images)Īs befits a movie about a poet, Paterson’s structure is very poetic, with each day almost resembling the stanza of a poem. Yahoo Movies spoke with Jarmusch about finding poetry in everyday life, his endless love for the Wu-Tang Clan, and his other 2016 film, the Iggy Pop and the Stooges documentary Gimme Danger. It’s no accident that there are two Patersons in Paterson the entire film is suffused with visual couplets, as if we’re watching one of the driver’s (or would that be Driver’s?) poems being written on screen in front of our eyes. Paterson also happens to be the name of the film’s main character, a bus driver and poet ( Adam Driver) who finds creative inspiration, rather than frustration, in the daily grind of his work routine. 28 and goes into theaters across the map this month - Jarmusch joins New York’s bridge-and-tunnel crowd, commuting across the Hudson to the titular New Jersey town, most famous as the birthplace of Lou Costello. Celebrated films like Down by Law, Mystery Train, Night on Earth, and Only Lovers Left Alive have taken him to other cities and countries, illustrating how his unique, dryly funny point of view travels well.įor his latest feature, Paterson - which opened in limited release on Dec. Of course, the filmmaker’s canvas has long since broadened beyond his local stomping ground. It’s a status the writer/director has held since the early 1980s, when his scruffy black-and-white movies like Permanent Vacation and Stranger than Paradise enraptured audiences, preserving a period in Manhattan’s artistic and youth culture that, seen today, almost appears to be taking place on a different planet. With his shock of white hair, eclectic artistic tastes, and longtime presence on New York City’s Lower East Side, Jim Jarmusch remains an aspirational figure for would-be Gotham hipster poets. ![]() Adam Driver plays a bus driver/poet in ‘Paterson’ (Photo: Amazon Studios)
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