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For the start of the trickfilms of "bear brothers": Discussion with Phil Collins

The Britisher Phil Collins (53) began his career in the Showgeschaeft with 13 years as a statist in the Beatles film "A hard Day's Night". Into the 70ern it became as schlagzeuger of the group "genesis" admits and took over later also the singing part. For well twenty years it is extraordinarily successful also as solo artists. For the zeichentrickfilm "Phil Collins the songs composed bear brothers", which starts on Thursday, and in five different languages sang.

When you sang German for the first time for the zeichentrickfilm "Tarzan", you felt that at that time as genuine horror. How was it this mark?
Collins: Please you say to me that I never called it "horror". Would please me, if I had simply only said "with difficulty".

Was it this time thus also so "difficult"?
Collins: Oh, actually it makes for much fun to sing in other languages. As an Englishman one is inclined to ignore other cultures since everyone speaks everywhere English. But since I live in Switzerland, I that it is delightful for the fans understand, to hear me sing in its language. By the way all say that my German is much better than with "Tarzan".

If you compose songs for a zeichentrickfilm, there is not it yet at all. How does one work under these circumstances?
Collins: I get the action and a few designs of the characters. But it constantly changes everything. One writes a quantity and plays it to the directors. If I am not ready to work with the team and, because a song in history does not function and rausfaellt simply, may I am insulted the job in no case make. They say it to one directly: "that is not well enough, can you it please again try?" Thus one must become once finished as artists only.

Did this experience change your function?
Collins: One becomes open. I write straight at a musical version of "Tarzan" for Broadway. That I could be never dreamed. I was a typical "Songwriter", which was interested only in Popmusik. Opera was not anyway not important, to film music also not and musical. But the attitude is wrong. I white now that one must to it-learn unbelievably much, in order to write a musical or a film music, and I hope that I develop as a composer. It is a good feeling, still to learn which. Popstars at my age often remains nothing different one, than sitting down to the peace.

Or they make musical Revues with their old hits like "Queen" or "Abba".
Collins: However that never tore me from the stool. The idea, Songs for a musical aufzumotzen, pleases me not. I rather write something new. Who wants to see the "Phil Collins Story" as musical eight times the week?

Another problem riper skirt star is the hearing. They have allegedly also problems thereby.
Collins: There is about 40 per cent, which I hear less than in former times. But concerns not the volume, but the frequencies, which I cannot differentiate between every now and then correctly. It is like a canvas, which zerfressen in different places of moths are. But my brain adjusted itself to it, and it goes completely well.

"bear brothers" is probably one of the last animated films, which were drawn still by hand. How do you find the trend for digitization, which also into the music around itself reaches?
Collins: New techniques become generally accepted, that are like that. I began that as a schlagzeuger, today settled everything the Drum computer. I use it, and some songs cannot I without a Drum computer no more imagine. Nevertheless I play still schlagzeug. I think, it can very well complement each other. I believe, the life am a cycle, and the classical zeichentrickfilm experiences one Renaissance. A producer says sometime: I have super an idea. Why do we make films in the computer, even if one can draw them by hand?

The discussion led Zoran Gojic
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