Alejandro Amenabar He became the darling of Spanish cinema thanks to ‘Tesis’, his first feature film. Since its premiere, 27 years have passed and in all that time he has released only six more films. Obviously, everyone has the titles they like the most and least from his filmography, including himself, who is very clear that ‘Open your eyes’ it’s his worst movie.
“There are many errors on my tape”
This revelation is not new, since already in 2016 he openly recognized it in a master classes held in Bilbao, where he commented that “It’s written by teenagers, we didn’t know anything about life, there’s a very teenage feeling”, being especially dissatisfied with the mix of genres that ‘Open your eyes’ proposes, something that he specified when talking about ‘Vanilla Sky’the American remake starring Tom Cruise:
They did the typical remake, there is a tone error but there was already in my film. It’s a thriller? Is it a love movie? It’s a mix. There are many errors on my tape and they copied them all.
Among those mistakes, there is one that is especially famous, since it is likely that the most remembered scene of his entire filmography is the one in which the character of Eduardo Noriega in ‘Open your eyes’ he discovers that it is all deserted in the middle of Madrid’s Gran Vía. The problem is that some neighbors appeared on the balcony and that was saved for posterity.
Well, at least that’s how it was for 25 years, because those anonymous letters were eliminated in the latest remastered version of ‘Abre los ojos’. Here you can see the new version of the scene and Amenábar took very little time to admit that he was wrong to alter that moment, because during a presentation of the film at the Filmoteca de Madrid he claimed that “now i regret itin reference to his decision to correct that ruling for the blu-ray release of the film.
By the way, I do not agree with Amenábar at all that ‘Open your eyes’ is his worst filmWell, in any case, it competes with ‘Tesis’ and ‘Los Otros’ for being the best. For me, the lowest point of her career so far is ‘Regression’, and for you?
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