Two Brothers: A Fable on Film and How It Was Told

Two Brothers: A Fable on Film and How It Was Told Book Description

In riveting detail and fully illustrated with stills, drawings, historical paintings, and images, this beautiful book covers the entire moviemaking odyssey. Included are fascinating sections on the selection and training of the tigers--cubs and full-grown--by world-renowned animal handlers.
Five months shooting a major feature film in Thailand and Cambodia, amidst the temples of Angkor, with tigers imported from France and the U.S. was an extraordinary, even life-changing experience for the international cast, starring Guy Pearce "(Memento, LA. Confidential), and a crew of more than 400 people. Their leader was the intrepid director/writer/producer Jean-Jacques Annaud who has always been willing to undergo enormous hardship in order to bring the film that he has imagined to the screen, as evidenced by his visionary work on such movies as "Quest for Fire, The Name of the Rose, The Bear, and "Seven Years in Tibet. In riveting detail and fully illustrated with stills, drawings, historical paintings, and images that inspired and tracked the process, this beautiful book covers the entire moviemaking odyssey, from pre-production, begun more than a year prior to shooting, through the final post-production stages. Included are fascinating sections on the selection and training of the tigers--cubs and full-grown--by world-renowned animal handlers, including Thierry Le Portier, who worked on the movies "The Bear and "Gladiator. "Two Brothers is the story of twin tiger brothers born amidst the temple ruins and exotic jungles who are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, one tiger to become a circus performer, the other a trained killer. Years later, the brothers find themselves reunited, but as forced enemies pitted against each other. Guy Pearce plays an adventurer of English origin, whose tragic intervention into the idyllic lives of the two tiger brothers forever intertwines their fates.

Jean Jacques Annaud has contributed to Two Brothers: A Fable on Film and How It Was Told as an author. Jean-Jacques Annaud directed, co-produced and co-wrote the screenplay Two Brothers based on his original story, with Alain Godard (The Name of the Rose). The film is produced by Annaud and Jake Eberts (Dances With Wolves, Driving Miss Daisy and A River Runs Through It).

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