Cary Fukunaga: Beautiful People 2011
By Whitney Spaner
After spending six years atop freight trains in Mexico filing his 2009 debut, Sin Nombre, director Cary Fukunaga needed a change of scenery. So he took off for the posh English countryside to film the new adaptation of Jane Eyre, out last month, starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender. "Sin Nombre was a very gritty, complex social drama. It was a kind of mental exercise that was simple and restrained," says Fukunaga. Still, it was the dark undertones of Charlotte Bronte's tale that appealed to the 33-year-old Oakland, California native. "What is fascinating about the story is that it successfully walks the line between taking a feminist view of equality and romance, but then having that dark, gothic tone at the same time," he explains. "What I saw with a lot of other adaptations was they chose to go the more romantic route than to treat the overall story with the darker tone."
There's a spooky, other-worldly feel to Fukunaga's version. He relies heavily on sound to give the sense that the mansion's giant stone walls and the dark, foggy woods surrounding it are haunted with restless spirits. But die-hard Jane Eyre fans, don't get your bloomers in a twist: the film features passionate embraces aplenty. Fukunaga is very in touch with his sentimental side. Whether he's jetting off to Guatemala, the U.K. or Africa, where's he's hoping to start production on a film adaptation of (Paper Beautiful Person 2006) Uzondinma Iweala's novel, Beasts of No Nation, there's not much more he appreciates on the plane than a "cheesy rom-com." And when asked if he believes in love at first sight he answers shyly, "Yes, don't you?" We certainly do now.
CARY WEARS JACKET BY MICHAEL BASTIAN AND SHIRT BY DRIES VAN NOTEN.
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There's a spooky, other-worldly feel to Fukunaga's version. He relies heavily on sound to give the sense that the mansion's giant stone walls and the dark, foggy woods surrounding it are haunted with restless spirits. But die-hard Jane Eyre fans, don't get your bloomers in a twist: the film features passionate embraces aplenty. Fukunaga is very in touch with his sentimental side. Whether he's jetting off to Guatemala, the U.K. or Africa, where's he's hoping to start production on a film adaptation of (Paper Beautiful Person 2006) Uzondinma Iweala's novel, Beasts of No Nation, there's not much more he appreciates on the plane than a "cheesy rom-com." And when asked if he believes in love at first sight he answers shyly, "Yes, don't you?" We certainly do now.
CARY WEARS JACKET BY MICHAEL BASTIAN AND SHIRT BY DRIES VAN NOTEN.
GO BACK TO SEE MORE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE OF 2011
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