"Do you know what moviemaking is? Eight hours of hard work each day to get three minutes of film. And during those eight hours there are maybe only ten or twelve minutes, if you're lucky, of real creation. And maybe they don't come. Then you have to gear yourself for another eight hours and pray you're going to get your good ten minutes this time. Everything and everyone on a movie set must be attuned to finding those minutes of real creativity. You've got to keep the actors and yourself in a kind of enchanted circle. An outside presence, even a completely friendly one, is basically alien to the intimate process going on in front of him. Any time there's an outsider on the set, we run the risk that part of the actors' absorption, or the technicians', or mine, is going to be impinged upon. It takes very little to destroy the delicate mood of total immersion in our work. We can't risk losing those vital minutes of real creation. The few times I've made exceptions I've always regretted it."
Ingmar Bergman began writing the screenplay for "The Seventh Seal" (1957) while he was in Stockholm's Karolinska Hospital, recovering from a stomach complaint. The inspiration for this film was said to be drawn from the period films of Akira Kurosawa, of which IBergman was a big fan.
The film's representation of Death as a white-faced man who wears a dark cape and plays chess with mortals has been a popular object of parody in other films and television. Several films and comedy sketches portray Death as playing games other than or in addition to chess. In the final scene of the 1968 film "De Düva" (mock Swedish for "The Dove"), a 15-minute pastiche of Bergman's work generally and his "Wild Strawberries" (1957) in particular, the protagonist plays badminton against Death, and wins when the droppings of a passing dove strike Death in the eye.
Bergman credited his working on "this film with helping him overcome his crippling fear of death. Because the film dealt so overtly with the subject, he found it a highly cathartic experience. (IMDb/Wikipedia)
Born: July 14, 1918, Uppsala, Sweden
Died: July 30, 2007, Fårö, Sweden
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