| Created at | July 03, 2008 |
| Created by | Ukko Kaarto |
| Deadline | August 10, 2008: over 3 years over |
| Shots given | 2 |
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| Jani Salomaa | Lullaby at wartime |
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The Sauna -team is looking for your ideas and comments. Join and show your support for Sauna. What kind of image you have of Sauna?
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DescriptionWe use a lot of time wondering and pondering what and how to tell the public about Sauna. The tagline "Wash Your Sins", the trailers, posters and short synopsis-texts all aim to do the same thing: to describe to people what kind of movie Sauna is and to set the mood of the film even before you've seen the first frame. Now it would be really interesting to hear how we are doing so far. What kind of film you think Sauna is going to be?
ShotsLullaby at wartimeTo me, it feels like a lullaby at wartime. Desolate. Brutal. Personal. An attempt to fool your kin that everything is just fine, though you know the harshness of the world will catch up with you. Washing away our sins is something we all may wish for deep inside. But the drawback in this is, that most of us choose to take the easy way, and to hide and run away our sins. If you wanted a broader audience, maybe you should make the protagonist appear more, you know, like a hero. A conflicted hero is a familiar theme. A conflicted soul is a character for the art scene.. It is still a fantastic premise for a movie. And as it is in Finnish, you don't have to mold it into the American standard. If you wanted to do that, you should bring up the religious Christian overtones. Christians versus pagans, it always works - even if it means selling your soul to the market forces..  ExpectationsSeeing how my grandfather found an equally dreary corner of the world to move to (michigan), pun intended :), however, I can walk into any wooded area or bog here after a good November rain and I can feel just like that guy in the Sauna poster. Miserable, bereft, mystical, ancient, forlorn. Like something right next to you, but just out of touch. Or something you can catch out of the corner of your eye, but then it's gone; or is it? I get that feeling from the trailer as well, of these deep flaws of mankind that sort of follow this never ending cycle generation after generation no matter where we go. I see these people, or souls, that have all crossed the Tuoni, but in their blindness and misery which represents humanity, aren't even aware of it. Which reminds me, will there be an American distribution? Or can you guys just send me an autographed DVD, and a couple pints of Koff? Robert
CommentsThank you Mr. Kaukomaa about the DVD, ya, I'm sure Koff would probably be expensive to ship, which is really sad. heh! :) I would probably just make a space on my bookshelf next my Kalevala, Norse, and Celtic mythology collection. It would be the Sauna/Iron Sky Collection with DVD's, and I could just keep a spot reserved for Koff, just in case. :) if you ask me, there will be north american distribution. but anyway you should be sent that DVD...Koff however might be too heavy? |
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So true, so true. I think that you hit the bullseye with
"An attempt to fool your kin that everything is just fine, though you know the harshness of the world will catch up with you."
This is such an universal theme regardless of the time era, and also a very Finnish way of thinking. Glad if we've been able to communicate this out so far.
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