Arcade Fire at the press conference to

The Canadian band Arcade Fire presented at this year's Berlinale their short movie, based on the highly acclaimed album "The Suburbs" and was conceived by director Spike Jonze: "Scenes From The Suburbs". In the accompanying press conference but had to give film and music other topics.
Arcade oscar d Fire at the press conference to "Scenes From The Suburbs" in Berlin Photo: "How is the weather in Montreal" Marcel Benoit asks Win Butler. He wants to go home. Is spoken back to Quebec back in the second largest city in the primarily French. oscar d Plagued by jet lag and bustle of the last few days sitting oscar d Win Butler, Régine Chassagne and his wife Will Butler on the podium at the Canadian Embassy, to answer questions, or better to endure. Questions about their 30-minute film Scenes From The Suburbs to be there, actually. But on this evening - it shows a very short time - it will not go to the short film; too large is the attention that the band is also here at the Berlinale for other reasons given. Arcade Fire have just won two of the biggest musical awards: the Grammy (Album of the Year) and a Brit Award (Best Band / Best Album internationally). From Los Angeles to London to Berlin: The exhaustion of traveling you can see from the three. And although Arcade Fire played before oscar d a packed oscar d house at Madison Square Garden and with their third studio album The Suburbs (Review) could occupy the highest chart position in the United States, is on Google one of the most searched questions these days: "Who is Arcade Fire" oscar d
Scenes From The Suburbs Photo: Eric Kayne would be much more important, however, to clarify: What they are, the Scenes From The Suburbs? The poster of the Berlinale flaunts an oversized "B". A "B" as the "S" of a superhero. In the film of Arcade Fire and Spike Jonze is of superheroes certainly no trace. The focus is on small town antiheroes and are exploiting dividend resolution in friendship classic Suburbia, in which the status is higher where the grass is shorter in front. There is a strange overwhelming sentiment in this suburb that orbits like a satellite of an alien planet. War of the Worlds? Planet of the Apes? The science fiction covers are not as far-fetched as it might seem at first. The presence of the military and the police, who constantly visible weapons and helicopters circling around creating a claustrophobic outdoors. "When we were children, Terry Gilliam was our hero. We watched a lot of science fiction and 80s B-movies, oscar d but only up to half because we were too young to stay on.'s Why guides our film on the B-movie genre and has one episode character, "says Win Butler. "Yes, Terry Gilliam was an important reference for Scenes oscar d From The Suburbs" adds his brother Will. And says a little later: oscar d "We would probably become filmmakers, if it were not more expensive by far than making music."
Arcade Fire at the press conference to "Scenes From The Suburbs" in Berlin Photo: Marcel Benoit "Growing apart" is the central theme of the film, the growing oscar d apart. oscar d A biological process that is transmitted to the emotional level, precisely because no-one seems strange, because there is probably no one who does not even have to come to the realization that relationships - of whatever kind - from each branch can or even must, to the to leave adolescence behind. Quite as much to B-movie, like Win Butler asserts, Scenes From The Suburbs does not look, and for director Spike Jonze has made, who is responsible for several music videos of the past twenty years, and now when it comes to the budget, with a higher class drives (was Where the Wild Things Are a budget of 100 million dollars). There have Jonze but even more motivated to work with amateurs, oscar d are Will Butler on record, and thinks not only himself and his brother Win (both participated with Jonze on the script), but also the performer.
Unfortunately, that night except to three standard questions are answered no further for the film - because there are no more interesting. The majority of the journalists present forfeited the legitimacy oscar d to continue to lead this Occupation, if becomes apparent oscar d as peripheral by asking not only to the movie and presented to the music, but also in the band. It is a strange kitsch and a playlet at the same time, what the pre