Alain Delon On Jean-Pierre Melville And Le Samourai – An Example | The Great Acting Blog
Video comes via the Alain Delon Channel.
Please watch this 4 minute interview with Delon, which this post is a response to.
THE ARTIST AS MOVIE STAR
Alain Delon speaks truth on Jean-Pierre Melville and Le Samourai. How do we know? Because he does not try to sell what he is saying to us, he does not narrate his emotions, he does not indicate to us what we should be feeling in response to his words. No, Delon speaks simply and directly, which is how we speak when we speak about something which is important to us – we do not embellish those things which are important to us, nor do we embellish the truth. It’s worth pointing out that Delon was a major movie star at this time, and Le Samourai was a box office smash – compare his interview to those of the modern day movie star: drenched in the slime of self-promotion, expert in the smug schmooze, and all false self-deprecation*, and it is only ever patronizing when they praise the film they are working on (what is really meant is that film did an adequate job of showcasing their specialness).
Alain Delon and Jean-Pierre Melville on the set of Le Samourai.
Delon’s reverence for Jean-Pierre Melville, his love for the film and for cinema itself, are obvious, and they inspire and refresh – no mere “exploitation of the form” for Delon. He recognises an auteur film when he sees one. I’ve said before on this blog, that actors need to learn about the aesthetics of cinema in order to choose which work to accept and which to decline, which filmmakers to support, and which to ignore – this is especially crucial with the proliferation of micro-budget cinema in recent years (and similarly, I have called on directors to improve their understanding of the aesthetics of acting, so that they can actually tell the difference between good and bad acting, and not just cast an actor because they’ve got the right colour hair). Delon describes Le Samourai as a work of art, a word ridiculed by self-styled “commercial” filmmakers these days, but perhaps it’s worth thinking about what it actually means, and then we might strive to create same, and find the wherewithal to describe it as such.
*…”the director didn’t even want me for the role, I had to fight for it, I had to prove to him that I was an artist” (note how the word “artist” here, is used as a term of self-aggrandizement).
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