'A Dangerous Method': Cronenberg Discusses Hysterical Accuracy

With the imminent release of David Cronenberg's latest feature A Dangerous Method, the director speak about the reserch and historical documentation that went into the film's plot.  In trying to replicate the era that Freud's scientific efforts, there was meticulous recreation of the hysteria that plagues Keira Knightley's character.

The film used film and photographs of French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot to help give an air of authenticity with Knightley's portrayal of hysteria, Filmmaker spoke with David Cronenberg:

Filmmaker: Jean-Martin Charcot, who was Freud’s mentor, had photographically documented hysterical women.

Cronenberg: That’s right. There was silent film of the era that we watched at that time.  On one hand it’s comical, and, at the same time, it’s horrible, because it’s almost like some weird kind of self-mutilation––to deform yourself, to cripple yourself, to paralyze yourself, to mute yourself so that you can’t speak.  With Keira, I said, “The face and the jaw and the mouth, I think we should concentrate on that, because she is trying to say these unspeakable things.”  One part is trying to say it and the other part is trying to prevent it. That’s how we arrived at that particular performance.  But it certainly makes me crazy, as you can understand, if people say, “Keira overacted in the beginning, but then she settles down and gives a nice subtle performance.”  (Laughs)

Filmmaker does provide a little bit of historical context to better understand the case with Freud as well as the medical complexities of the condition:

Freud, who studied with Charcot in 1885-1886, was deeply influenced by Charcot’s attempt to understand the nature of hysteria, especially in Charcot’s belief that the physical contortions demonstrated by people with hysteria might have a neurological (or psychoanalytic) root, rather than being the effect of a physical injury.  (Years later, out of respect for the good French doctor, Freud named his son Jean-Martin.) To document the nature of hysteria, Charcot hired the photographer Albert Londe in 1878 to be the medical photographer at Paris’s Salpêtrière Hospital.  In that position, Londe devised a number of camera experiments to capture the motion of hysterics (see photo above), experiments in motion not unlike those conducted by cinema precursor Eadweard Muybridge.  As such, Knightley’s awkward movements not only have a historical antecedent, but mark one of the first intersections of movies and madness.

Never hurts to learn, I say.

A Dangerous Method is directed by David Cronenberg.  Starring Michael Fassbender, Kiera Knightley and Viggo Mortensen.  The film opens November 23, 2011.

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