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It was physically difficult,
because of the heat, the tiredness.
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In Leticia,
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there was no electricity,
except this oil generator
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which brought us light in the evening.
:15:21
Recently I did a movie in the jungle,
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approximately in the same region,
:15:29
and now that I'm older,
:15:33
and more indisposed by discomfort,
I realized
:15:38
that being in Amazonia is dangerous.
Everything is dangerous:
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the insects,
:15:42
the things we don't know about...
The country isn't fully explored yet.
:15:47
There are animals like snakes
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piranhas. Everything is a menace.
:15:55
Cinema is always done in total
irresponsability.
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Especially by us, Italian people,
who are very enthiusiastic.
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But we manage to transform dangers
into creative potentials.
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It's different from the Americans,
who destroy everything with napalm.
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Then, you see Leonardo di Caprio
in Viêt-nam. Actually,
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he's on a 70m-long yacht
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on a lake and does nothing.
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We really took the plunge.
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We did everything by ourselves,
and hoped it would go right.
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We were dilettantes.
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By dilettantes, I mean
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we had the faculty to create novelty,
:16:44
to create abnormal situations
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that you don't generally use
:16:50
in this kind of normal productions.
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I'm convinced that we succeeded
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because we were attracted