The Artist vs. The Actress Update: The Director Talks
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| Artist director Michel Hazanavicius defends his use of Herrmann's Vertigo score. |
"Artist" director Michel Hazanavicius tells CNN that while he's apologetic the screen legend is so upset by the use of the "Vertigo" score, he's not sorry he used it.
"I’ve done nothing wrong," he said at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards on Monday. "I used music from another movie, but it’s not illegal. We paid for that, we asked for that and we had the permission to do it. For me there is no real controversy...I feel sorry for her, but there’s a lot of movies with music from other movies, directors do that all the time and I’m not sure it’s a big deal."
What makes him a little sad, he continued, is that "The Artist" "was suppose to be an homage, a tribute to the Hollywood classical movie, not something aggressive or something bad."
While I greatly admire Ms. Novak, her work overall and especially in Vertigo, I am somewhat surprised by this furor. Is it not a homage to her work that a new film wishes to reference it? (I assume any legal rights were acknowledged as required.) In fact it is such ongoing references that will keep Vertigo evergreen, that will bring younger audiences to it for the first time, so that it may continue to be appreciated by new audiences.
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