{"id":6042,"date":"2017-12-06T11:08:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2017-12-06T11:08:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T16:08:28","slug":"denis-villeneuve-receives-an-honorary-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=6042","title":{"rendered":"Denis Villeneuve receives an honorary degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"copy-snippet fontset1 scale3\">\n<article class=\"art\">\n<header>\n<hgroup>\n<h5 data-bind=\"text: articleTitle\">PREMIERE SHOWING<\/h5>\n<\/hgroup>\n<ul class=\"art-byline\">\n<li class=\"art-source\" data-bind=\"text: issueTitle\">Montreal Gazette\u00a0 <time data-bind=\"text: shortDateString\">6 Dec 2017\u00a0 <\/time>T\u2019CHA DUNLEVY<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/header>\n<figure class=\"art-pic\">\n<p><figure style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"articleImage\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2-img.pressreader.com\/pressdisplay\/docserver\/getimage.aspx?regionKey=BYZLg9DFpDMLc0BJ2uPu3A%3d%3d\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"290\" data-bind=\"attr: { src: imageUrl }\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">JOHN MAHONEY<\/figcaption><\/figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div data-bind=\"foreach: articleBlocks\">\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Quebec filmmaker Denis Villeneuve receives an honorary degree from Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al rector Robert Proulx on Tuesday. \u2018I\u2019m a professional dreamer,\u2019 Villeneuve told the graduates at his alma mater. \u2018To earn my doctorate, it took me 30 years.\u2019<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Denis Villeneuve pulled out two speeches, as he took the podium at Place des Arts\u2019 Salle WilfridPelletier, Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">The acclaimed filmmaker is, of course, no politician. He was not holding a victory speech and a concession speech, but rather two versions of his advice for graduating students of his alma mater, Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al\u2019s (UQAM) communications program.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Clad in a long black robe and sporting a bashful grin, Villeneuve was there to receive an honorary doctorate. He began with a story.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cA few years ago, I had the pleasure of adapting a novel by Jos\u00e9 Saramago, The Double, which became my film Enemy. The film tells the story of a history professor, who is intelligent but timid, and is obsessed by the cycles of repetition of humanity. One day, he meets his double, who is vain and narcissistic, and one tries to eliminate the other. But the forces of the unconscious are much stronger than the professor believes, and the spider (a recurring, nightmarish vision in the movie) is reincarnated. It\u2019s not my best film, but it\u2019s my most honest.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cIt\u2019s no coincidence that I have two speeches. I won\u2019t read the first, which I\u2019m very proud of. I wrote it a while ago. But I woke up in the middle of the night and realized I had it all wrong. I wrote this second speech for you graduates. I wrote it at dawn, when most of you were negotiating with strange images troubling your unconscious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Villeneuve joked that he is no example to follow.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cTo earn my doctorate, it took me 30 years,\u201d he said, \u201cand more than $300 million,\u201d the latter number a reference to the combined budgets of his films including Blade Runner 2049, Arrival, Sicario, Prisoners, Incendies and Polytechnique.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cTime doesn\u2019t have the same value for you as for me,\u201d he admitted. \u201cThat took me an eternity to understand. I like to watch the trees grow. The force to accelerate requires enormous energy. The only thing that gets me moving in life is the explosion of cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">He had no wise words on this day, Villeneuve insisted. But he did share a key tool to his artistic development, which he wished someone would have let him in on a long time ago:<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cTherapy,\u201d he said. \u201cI have a warning, and I hope that it is completely useless. I imagine you\u2019re all very serene and free of the shadows of your genetic heritage. But if you\u2019re like me, and know nothing of Socrates and his understanding of the self, I offer you this warning.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cI\u2019m a professional dreamer. My job is to build bridges between dreams and reality, and they pay me well to do so. I travel often into my own subconscious. I\u2019ve met very few adults in my life who have conquered their shadow. If you\u2019re like me, and like most decision-makers today, find a good therapist. They\u2019re very rare, but they exist. It\u2019s really the best advice I can give you today. With all my affection, I wish you luck, and beware of spiders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Following the ceremony, the director confided that the timing of the honour couldn\u2019t be better.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cIt touches me profoundly,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd it comes at a moment in my career when I feel I must take a break. I have to reflect on how I will evolve as a filmmaker, how to renew myself.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cAnd to receive recognition from my alma mater, the university that formed me, teachers who radically influenced me in my development \u2014 it\u2019s here that I learned the ABCs of cinema and cinematic language \u2014 is a nice coincidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Having just finished the first round of Oscar campaign appearances for Blade Runner 2049, Villeneuve is hard at work on the script for his next film, adapting another sci-fi classic, Frank Herbert\u2019s Dune. \u201cI\u2019m renewing with an old pleasure that I hadn\u2019t felt in a long time,\u201d he said. \u201cI hadn\u2019t returned to writing since Incendies. I\u2019ve worked on the scripts for my last four films, but they were all quite far along.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cI\u2019m going back to my early days as a filmmaker, working with a writer I admire, a master who inspires me a lot. Writing gives me energy. Dune will be a long adaptation. It\u2019s going to take time to write; it\u2019s hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Though he has achieved success in Hollywood, Villeneuve insisted that his creative journey is not a blueprint budding directors should feel pressured to follow.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cThe objective is not to go to Hollywood,\u201d he said. \u201cThe objective is to try to make films that are our own. Myself, as a filmmaker, the cinema I wanted to make is closer to the cinema south of the border. But a whole important cinema has to be made (right here). I hope UQAM graduates have the chance to make their films.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">In lieu of celebrating his newly minted degree, Tuesday evening, Villeneuve was preparing to f\u00eate the cinematic accomplishment of someone close to him.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">\u201cMy daughter is studying cinema, and it\u2019s the first screening of her short film,\u201d he said, beaming.<\/p>\n<p data-bind=\"text: $data\">Like father, like daughter. Yet Villeneuve\u2019s offspring is already showing a rebellious spirit. She\u2019s at Concordia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"l7689c353\">The term &#8220;Herbal <a href=\"http:\/\/amerikabulteni.com\/2012\/05\/14\/buz-hokeyi-nasil-oynanir-kurallari-nelerdir-nhl-nedir\/\">amerikabulteni.com<\/a> order levitra&#8221; has now come to mean any herbal preparation with an action similar to levitra. 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