Hello everyone, I welcome you to “Inside a Directors Mind”. For those unfamiliar with my work, I am Julian Schnabel, director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. This film follows the tragic struggles Jean-Dominique Bauby faces, a young man who suffers from locked in syndrome; a stroke causing the body and facial muscles to be immobilized while consciousness and eye movement remains. My purpose for tonight is to share three aspects this film employs, allowing it to reach its level of success.
Julian Schnabel’s film adaptation of Jean-Dominique Bauby’s 1997 memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was released by Miramax in 2007 and immediately won: the best director prize at Cannes (Schnabel); a best adapted screenplay BAFTA (Ronald Harwood); an Independent Spirit Award for best cinematography (Janusz Kaminski) and best director; and was nominated for Oscars in writing, editing (Juliette Welfling), cinematography and directing. Bauby’s memoir, adapted for the screen by Ronald Harwood
The Butterfly Diving Bell sits on my bedside table . It was a busy day when I finished and I'm struggling with how to express my appreciation for the best of the author , Jean - Dominique Bauby . As a beautiful French dessert , each crafted wonderful phrases should be savored. Posted by Bauby bears a sense of humor combined with depression that required for reading and slow digestion . He must have been a Morrissey fan . For those who are not familiar with Mr. Bauby , he was a former general editor
The film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, is an artistic and inspiring movie that I thoroughly enjoyed for its stunning visuals and superb acting. However, there are aspects of the movie that deepened my appreciation for the movie even more that I had no idea about until I started reading reviews. Both of the facts that I learned come from Kelly Vance of the website “East Bay Express”. The first is that the actress who played Marie, Olatz López Garmendia, is actually the wife of the director of
empathetic piece though the use of poetic imagery to show the internal world of a character. ‘Locked in’ is how the doctor describes the paralysis that consumes Jean-Dominque Bauby’s body and that is the experience that the film conveys. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly takes artistic liberty with filming the first 40 minutes of the film from Bauby’s point of view. They go as far as to only change to an external shot after Jean-Do catches a glimpse of his reflection in the window of his hospital. Having
Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a memoir that recounts Jean-Dominique Bauby’s months in the hospital following a massive stroke that left him in a coma for 20 days. He goes from working as an editor with Elle magazine in Paris to communicating by blinking his left eye. His story accounts for 9 months of his hospital stay, including his newfound struggles, to his imagination that takes him on adventures. With locked-in syndrome, Jean is paralyzed from head to toe with the ability to swivel his head
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is a script which falls somewhere in the middle of the Classical Design Triangle. It presents moments of causality in a non-linear temporal arrangement. The single protagonist, Jean-Dominique Bauby, is passive due to his affliction yet struggling with both his inner conflict to resolve his life’s choices and the external conflict to regain some semblance of a normal existence. Plot points for this script were not as clearly defined as they are in a script which fully
In The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Bauby's communication with the viewer throughout the film is restricted predominantley to internal thought due to his "locked-in" syndrome. Nothing that Bauby says after his stroke can be heard by outside persons. However, when Bauby speaks during the movie, the audience can understand it as if he has the ability to talk. This feature promotes a sort of dramatic irony where the audience is able to know what it is he is wanting to say and can then react to him
Diving Bell and the Butterfly 1. How do stroke survivors or anyone with chronic illness, and health providers remain hopeful and “realistic”? What values are involved in their hope? Stroke survivors or anyone with chronic illness and health providers remain hopeful and “realistic” by counting on each other. The patients while being realistic about the outcome of their disease, stay hopeful that each of their health care providers will give them the appropriate care and will make sure that they
novels I have chosen to write about is ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho and ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ by Jean-Dominique Bauby. The reason I have chosen these books is because they are my top two favorites out of the four novels we have read and they are the most intriguing to me. What makes The Alchemist stand out is because it has a very inspirational lesson or moral in the end. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly however, triggers the more emotional side and yet again is very inspirational
Shannon McChesney March 5th, 2015 AAC Reaction Paper “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” is a memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby. Jean suffered a massive stroke at the age of forty-three. As a result of this stroke, Jean lived with “locked-in syndrome”. He was completely paralyzed except for the ability to blink his left eye and could not speak or communicate in any other way. The book was physically written by a woman named Claude who translated each of Jean’s meaningful blinks into the appropriate
Vendetta (directed by James McTeigue), Slumdog Millionaire (directed by Danny Boyle), Paper Towns (written by John Green) and The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (written by Jean-Dominique Bauby). All of these texts are about desire; it is sometimes for different things, but it is still the same desire. The main characters in V for Vendetta and The Diving Bell and The Butterfly desire the same idea. Freedom. This is also the same for Slumdog Millionaire and Paper Towns. The main characters desire the one
2013. . Rio, Chris, Dustin Koski, Ben Denny, and Sampsa Nuotio. "The 6 Most Certifiably Insane Acts of Writing." Cracked.com. N.p., 18 Aug. 2012. Web. 11 Dec. 2013. . Robinson, Tasha. "Book Vs. Film: The Diving Bell And The Butterfly • The A.V. Club." Book Vs. Film: The Diving Bell And The Butterfly • The A.V. Club. N.p., 11 Jan. 2008. Web. 18 Dec. 2013. .
Written by Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action, introduces the concept that would allow the “human fitness to survive” as it “requires the ability to talk, write, listen, and read in ways that increase the chance for you and fellow members of the species to survive together.” Contradictory to Hayakawa’s opinion, it is merely a helpful stepping stone, and in some cases, language in the literal sense, isn’t even needed for humans to survive as shown in the multiple cases of feral children. Feral
his stroke. I find his memoir encouraging, Bauby refrains from using self-pity; his optimism, wit, and honesty while captive in a paralyzed body is motivating. I am in awe of Bauby’s strength, courage, and resiliency, upon finishing The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had immense feelings of gratefulness. I am amazed that he wrote his memoir by blinking his left eye to indicate his words. Perhaps what I find most disheartening is having an active mind while confined in a still body. My favorite quote
Locked-In Syndrome Imagine a world in which human communication is executed through the simplicity of thought. No muscle action- no nodding, smiling, slapping, pointing, speaking, or feeling...just through the immobile and inconspicuous medium of thought. This is an example of a locked-in patient. In a locked-in condition, the patient's ability to move his/her limbs, neck, and even muscles is brought to an abrupt halt. Messages ordered by the brain do not reach the muscles that consequently