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E come ci sei riuscito?<br />

Stavo frequentando un corso sull’high concept, term<strong>in</strong>e coniato da<br />

Spielberg per def<strong>in</strong>ire un film che può essere descritto <strong>in</strong> 25 parole e<br />

che proprio per <strong>la</strong> sua immediatezza ha tutte le carte <strong>in</strong> rego<strong>la</strong> per diventare<br />

un successo commerciale. A me ne sono venute <strong>in</strong> mente tre<br />

“dwarfs p<strong>la</strong>y<strong>in</strong>g basketball”… E’ nata così l’idea per il film The M<strong>in</strong>is…<br />

nani a canestro, che par<strong>la</strong> del<strong>la</strong> storia di Roger e Chevy, due ragazzi affetti<br />

da nanismo che vogliono formare una squadra di pal<strong>la</strong>canestro<br />

per partecipare ad un torneo. Grazie al<strong>la</strong> loro determ<strong>in</strong>azione riescono<br />

addirittura a co<strong>in</strong>volgere uno dei giocatori più forti di tutti i tempi:<br />

Dennis Rodman!<br />

The M<strong>in</strong>is è un film che par<strong>la</strong> di sogni.<br />

Esiste un parallelismo tra <strong>la</strong> storia dei nani con il sogno di giocare a basket<br />

e <strong>la</strong> storia di Valerio che voleva diventare “grande” nel mondo<br />

del c<strong>in</strong>ema?<br />

Certo. In un certo senso anch’io ero un nano che voleva diventare<br />

grande, perché grandi non si nasce, si diventa. Raggiungere l’impossibile<br />

era una sfida soprattutto con me stesso e, come i M<strong>in</strong>is, dovevo<br />

superare tanti ostacoli per poter v<strong>in</strong>cere e trionfare. In America, grazie<br />

al<strong>la</strong> mia passione e al<strong>la</strong> mia perseveranza, ho avuto <strong>la</strong> possibilità di<br />

conoscere nomi importanti del c<strong>in</strong>ema come Oliver Stone, Jim<br />

And how did you make it?<br />

I was attend<strong>in</strong>g a course on high concept screenwrit<strong>in</strong>g, a term<br />

co<strong>in</strong>ed by Steven Spielberg to def<strong>in</strong>e a movie that can be described<br />

<strong>in</strong> more or less 25 words and which, for this reason, meets<br />

all the requirements to become a commercial success. Just<br />

three words came to my m<strong>in</strong>d: “dwarves p<strong>la</strong>y<strong>in</strong>g basketball”.<br />

That’s how the idea for The M<strong>in</strong>is was born: it tells the story of<br />

two boys, Rogen and Chevy, suffer<strong>in</strong>g from dwarfism, who want<br />

to build a basketball team <strong>in</strong> order to take part <strong>in</strong> a tournament.<br />

Thanks to their persistence, they succeed <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>volv<strong>in</strong>g even<br />

one of the greatest p<strong>la</strong>yers of all time: Dennis Rodman!<br />

The M<strong>in</strong>is deals with dreams. Is there any parallelism between<br />

the story of these little men dream<strong>in</strong>g about p<strong>la</strong>y<strong>in</strong>g basketball,<br />

and the story of Valerio, who wanted to become “big” <strong>in</strong> the<br />

world of c<strong>in</strong>ema?<br />

Of Course. In a way, I too was a little man who wanted to become<br />

big: you aren’t born big, you choose to become big. I wanted<br />

to challenge myself to reach the impossible, and, like the M<strong>in</strong>is,<br />

I had to clear a lot of hurdles to be a w<strong>in</strong>ner. Thanks to my passion<br />

and persistence, <strong>in</strong> the US I had the chance to meet many<br />

important people <strong>in</strong> the c<strong>in</strong>ema <strong>in</strong>dustry, like Oliver Stone,<br />

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