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Jamie Bell and the Romans
A LA RECHERCHE DE L’AIGLE PERDU. La neuvième légion de l’empire romain a disparu en Ecosse en l’an 120 après J.-C. Vingt
ans plus tard, Marcus Aquila (Channing Tatum), un jeune centurion, débarque en Angleterre et espère laver l’honneur de
son père en retrouvant l’emblème de la cohorte évanouie. Il est accompagné dans sa quête par un esclave, interprété par
Jamie Bell. L’Aigle de la neuvième légion sera dans les salles le 4 mai prochain. Interview…
Jamie Bell and the Romans
Jamie Bell et les Romains
sexed up plus sexy, plus excitant / to direct
réaliser / take vision, opinion, point de vue
/ Roman Romain / to portray représenter / to
get, got, got on board s’embarquer, participer / to ride, rode, ridden a horse monter à
cheval, chevaucher.
2. tutor moniteur / backwards en arrière, à
reculons / kind of plus ou moins / to wrap
terminer, boucler (tournage).
3. defiance défi, provocation, insubordination / to enslave asservir, réduire en esclavage / basically en fait, au fond / sport ici
divertissement, jouet / true fidèle / to look up
to respecter, admirer.
4. to get along with s’entendre avec / guy
gars, type / to hate haïr / glad heureux,
content.
5. to hide, hid, hidden dissimuler, cacher /
to heighten accroître / to guess penser /
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BY RONAN LANCELOT
(REUTERS/LUKE MACGREGOR)
RENCONTRE AVEC
JAMIE BELL
Acteur
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VOCABLE: How did you learn about the project?
JAMIE: I heard that Duncan Kenworthy was
producing The Eagle, a sexed-up adaptation
of a kids’ book from the 1950’s, and Kevin
McDonald was going to direct it. I received
his script along with, I’m sure, many other
actors and had a good read. I travelled to London where I met Kevin, and we just had a really good kind of connecting conversation.
Kevin had a certain take on how the Romans
should be portrayed in the movie, and I kind
of agreed with that. I just got on board from
that point on really, and then we’re just doing it, and I find myself riding a horse across
the Highlands of Scotland, that’s the way
it works.
I thought you just kind of held on for your
life, and made it look good, but in the end,
you know, when we wrapped the film, I was
really sad to say goodbye to these animals!
3. VOCABLE: What did you like about your character? JAMIE: I think it was his sense of defiance. Romans have come into his country
and have murdered his family and enslaved
him, and now he’s basically their sport, and
he’s kind of left for dead. I just love that he
stays true to his values. His sense of injustice
and his sense of honour to me is something
to look up to.
4. VOCABLE: How did you get along with Channing Tatum? JAMIE: We got on great from the
2. VOCABLE: Where you expecting to ride horses?
JAMIE: Well, I’d never ridden before and I was
afraid of horses before I started. I started taking lessons for the movie at this company
who does horses for movies in Europe and
England specifically, called the Devil’s Horseman, and I had a great, great tutor. Within
two weeks, I was literally riding the thing
backwards. It was that quick. Before I started,
The plot
Adapted from Rosemary Sutcliff’s historical adventure novel The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), the
film tells the story of a young Roman officer
searching to recover the lost Roman eagle standard of his father’s legion in the northern part
of Great Britain. The story is based on the Ninth
Spanish Legion’s supposed disappearance in
Britain.
very first moment we met. He’s like the
nicest guy in the world. He’s so charismatic,
and we had a great time, which is difficult,
especially in scenes where you’re supposed
to hate each other, but I’m glad we finally
got to work on a film together. I found myself pushing my physical like limits because
of him, which is great because I think in that
way we both kind of taught each other something.
5. VOCABLE: All the Romans are Americans in this
movie. Do you think there’s a hidden message
behind that choice? JAMIE: Well, I think it’s a
very specific analogy that Kevin MacDonald
has chosen to use for the film, maybe to
heighten dramatic context, to base the movie
in some sense of contemporary reality. It’s
more a question for him really. I guess you
take for what you will, but for me, especially
basing my accent to the specific geographic
area, which is the North East of England,
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Northumbria, where these native Britons actually were from, I thought was a good idea.
Kevin said to me: “I want to hear your own
voice; I want to hear your own dialect.” I felt
comfortable using my own voice.
6. VOCABLE: Did you have to learn Gaelic too?
JAMIE: You don’t want to have to learn the entire language. I learned phonetically, so I
would have a proper Gaelic speaker with me,
who would say “this is how you say it, this is
what it is, this is what the pronunciation and
accents need to be in this part and this part”,
would be lying if I said it wasn’t. But it’s
funny, I never saw Romans as the bad guys.
I saw them as incredibly powerful, all-conquering people. I guess I didn’t really know
that much about them until I really started
to realize they just took over everything and
shoved their way of life onto everyone, and
they would do it in very clever ways, you
know, propaganda was very much alive in
their empire… I learned about this and especially stuff about the Celts and their relationships with the different emperors.
When you stand in the Highlands of Scotland and you’re just looking around
and you think these young men from
Tuscany who’ve come over on a boat
are seeing this, wearing nothing but
tunics and it’s freezing out there. I
can’t imagine, well I can actually, because I did it… Seeing some of these native Picts and other different tribes
must have been terrifying, absolutely terrifying. I would understand why they would
never want to go back to that.
"I never saw Romans as the bad
guys. I saw them as incredibly
powerful, all-conquering people."
and then after that, it’s just repetition, and
just listening to it again and again and again.
It’s hard work, but it’s also kind of liberating in a way as well, because you’re bringing
a certain period of history to life. A lot of people do speak versions of Gaelic still, very
small communities of course, but, but it was
good bringing that kind of part of history
back to life again.
7. VOCABLE: Back to the imperialism depicted in
the movie and the analogy with the Americans… JAMIE: I think it’s hinting at that. I
8. VOCABLE: You live in the U.S. nowadays…
Briton Britannique / actually en réalité, en
fait / comfortable à l’aise.
6. proper approprié, correct, ici véritable / to
bring, brought, brought back to life faire
revivre, ressusciter.
7. to depict dépeindre, représenter / to hint at
suggérer, faire allusion à / to lie mentir / bad
guy méchant / all-conquering triomphant de
tous, invincible / to take, took, taken over
prendre le contrôle de / to shove pousser,
enfoncer, ici imposer (à) / clever intelligent,
habile, brillant / stuff choses / Tuscany Toscane / to freeze, froze, frozen geler / Picts
Pictes, confédération de tribus celtes brittoniques vivant dans ce qui est devenu l’Écosse
du nord et de l’est, présents avant la conquête
de l’île de Bretagne par les Romains et jusqu’au Xème siècle lorsqu’ils se réunirent avec
les Gaëls / tribe tribu, clan.
THE PLOT
plot intrigue, histoire / novel roman / officer
ici centurion / to search chercher, tenter / to
recover retrouver, récupérer / standard étendard.
JAMIE: I love America, It is a great idea, and
it’s a great concept. Do I agree with some
of their foreign policy? Maybe not so much,
you know…Bush in the White House was a
calamitous affair. It wasn’t pretty to look at,
but I live here, I work here, and it’s a great
place for immigrants to come, it has been
for years, it’s a nation of immigrants. ●
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