Bobby Fischer chess died January 17, 2008 and within a day to read his obituary, filmmaker Liz Garbus decided that the young prodigy who became a recluse, would be the perfect subject for a documentary. Fascinated by the meteoric rise and fall of Fischer, who spent the next two years finding information about the life of Fischer, track, archive footage and interviews with the Fischer family, born in Brooklyn, friends and colleagues. The film, "Bobby Fischer against the world", makes its television debut on HBO on June 6
Garbus finally decided to focus his film on the world stage the championship game set in 1972 in Reykjavik, Iceland between Fischer and Boris Spassky, a cultural event called "a metaphor wrapped in a metaphor. "Organized at the height of the Cold War, the game - that put American boy self against Soviet-sponsored a great teacher - echoes the political tensions at play in the real world" Here was this man. Brooklyn, this weed has emerged from cracks in the sidewalk to take the Soviet chess machine, "Garbus said." The cultural consequences of this game was so great, we can not imagine something like this happens again. "
After his victory in Reykjavik, Fischer withdrew from public life and fell into a state isolated, paranoid. "I never liked Bobby too far from his personal life and had a mixed reaction to the press." Garbus said. "The opposite is also true - the press was on his watch, but is also an easy subject to caricature. "Later in her life, Jewish Fischer also commented Semitic and anti-American, and faces a prison sentence after his decision to play Spassky in Belgrade, a rematch-Sep ignored UN sanctions against Yugoslavia.
One of the most difficult aspects of the film, according to Garbus, was to convince his friends to talk about Fischer. "Bobby polarized people even after his death," said Garbus. "When we come to his colleagues about us, many wondered if we would make it look like a saint or sinner, people wanted to be a pro or anti-field of Bobby."
Despite the attention given to the exploits of the most eccentric Fischer, the film is ultimately about the game of chess, 1972, and "incredible personality" of Bobby Fischer.
"In a sense, I am drawn to complex characters who triumphantly tragedies," said Garbus, who directed the documentary prize at the maximum security prison, hospitals and sentenced to death. "Looking for my films, they all went in different paths, where you learn about the world of his subject, and eventually discover they are much more complex than it seems."
Garbus finally decided to focus his film on the world stage the championship game set in 1972 in Reykjavik, Iceland between Fischer and Boris Spassky, a cultural event called "a metaphor wrapped in a metaphor. "Organized at the height of the Cold War, the game - that put American boy self against Soviet-sponsored a great teacher - echoes the political tensions at play in the real world" Here was this man. Brooklyn, this weed has emerged from cracks in the sidewalk to take the Soviet chess machine, "Garbus said." The cultural consequences of this game was so great, we can not imagine something like this happens again. "
After his victory in Reykjavik, Fischer withdrew from public life and fell into a state isolated, paranoid. "I never liked Bobby too far from his personal life and had a mixed reaction to the press." Garbus said. "The opposite is also true - the press was on his watch, but is also an easy subject to caricature. "Later in her life, Jewish Fischer also commented Semitic and anti-American, and faces a prison sentence after his decision to play Spassky in Belgrade, a rematch-Sep ignored UN sanctions against Yugoslavia.
One of the most difficult aspects of the film, according to Garbus, was to convince his friends to talk about Fischer. "Bobby polarized people even after his death," said Garbus. "When we come to his colleagues about us, many wondered if we would make it look like a saint or sinner, people wanted to be a pro or anti-field of Bobby."
Despite the attention given to the exploits of the most eccentric Fischer, the film is ultimately about the game of chess, 1972, and "incredible personality" of Bobby Fischer.
"In a sense, I am drawn to complex characters who triumphantly tragedies," said Garbus, who directed the documentary prize at the maximum security prison, hospitals and sentenced to death. "Looking for my films, they all went in different paths, where you learn about the world of his subject, and eventually discover they are much more complex than it seems."
