Guy Ritchie kept Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim on their toes filming TheCovenant, but the result plays to his fascination w/ reluctant relationships
There is a line in"Guy Ritchie's The Covenant" in which Jake Gyllenhaal's Army Sgt. John Kinley is having a disagreement with Dar Salim's Ahmed, the man assigned to be his interpreter in Afghanistan, who has gone beyond straight translation and into the realm of strategy. Kinley tells him that he's there to translate. Ahmed responds that he's an interpreter.
"I was moved by the rather complicated and paradoxical bonds that seemed to be fused by the trauma of war between the interpreters and their colleagues, so to speak, on the other side of the cultural divide and how all of that evaporated under duress," Ritchie said."The irony of war is the depths to which the human spirit is allowed to express itself that in any other sort of day-to-day situation is never allowed.
"Quite literally, it is a table," Gyllenhaal said."At that table is where those exchanges are and those ideas are shared and created. And like any good table, it's usually met with a meal as well -- mini meals, large meals -- and the movie is found. It really is great fun. Especially if you love food."
"I was moved by the rather complicated and paradoxical bonds that seemed to be fused by the trauma of war between the interpreters and their colleagues," said director Guy Ritchie, right, shown with Jake Gyllenhaal on the set of"Guy Ritchie's The Covenant.
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