Mr. Turner | movie | 2014 | Official Featurette
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside | dG1fZUxGWTRiYWF4bms
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00:00 [Music]
00:06 My little lagger drawer, I thought he could read and write.
00:10 [Music]
00:11 Constable Turner.
00:14 You're still making your nice little pictures Mr. Turner.
00:18 She'd make a fine subject for you to paint.
00:20 Oh is that so? I shall cogitate upon it.
00:24 Mr. Turner is a film that I've made with Mr. Mike Lee
00:30 and it's about J.M.W. Turner, Joseph Mallard William Turner.
00:35 Who's Turner? Our greatest painter, greatest British painter.
00:39 [Music]
00:57 Exceedingly beautiful, I thank you.
01:00 Thank you Mr. Turner.
01:03 Mr. Turner is a film about the last 25 years of Turner's life.
01:08 His life, his loves, his fears, his losses, the beauty of his work,
01:14 the incongruity of the fact that he was a bit like me,
01:17 strange funny looking little bloke who happened to be a genius.
01:21 I'm not taking credit for the second part of that statement but that's what he was.
01:25 [Music]
01:30 He was a truly in the ultimate part of the romantic movement.
01:34 Romantic meaning reacting and recording something that you feel,
01:39 how you feel about it more than just how it looks.
01:42 And then he became the greatest painter of the sublime.
01:46 The power of nature, the horror and beauty of nature,
01:52 a man's futility in the midst of it.
01:55 And that's what he painted and that's what this film is about.
01:58 And it's all done, all this amazing, poetic, genius, magnificent, advancing work
02:09 was done by a little fat bloke that was born above a barber's shop in Covent Garden.
02:14 We've tried to make a film that evokes the period,
02:17 also evokes the look of his paintings.
02:20 And we've got a fantastic central performance from Tim Spall.
02:25 [Music]
02:47 It's actually still in me, it's still with me.
02:50 I cannot shake it off. I can't get rid of it.
02:54 I don't think I'll get rid of it until it's out there.
02:57 And we know whether it's going to be adored, loved or in equal measure.
03:03 Maybe it might be a sublime film.
03:05 I think this is our sixth or seventh collaboration.
03:09 Great character actor, great guy.
03:12 And we've been hatching this for a while.
03:15 And in fact, he actually took painting lessons for two years before we started shooting.
03:21 It is a film that stands on its own, I think, as a work of absolute beauty,
03:26 which I'm deeply, deeply proud of.
03:28 [Music]
03:30 The universe is chaotic and you make us see it.
03:34 You are a man of great vision, Mr Turner.
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