<P> In 2016, Ivory stepped down from directing to avoid conflicts, leaving Guadagnino to direct the film alone . According to Ivory, financiers from Memento Films International did not want to have two directors involved in the project, as they "thought it would be awkward...It might take longer, it would look terrible if we got in fights on the set, and so on ." Guadagnino has said that Ivory's version would have likely been "a much more costly (and) different film"--one which, in fact, could not have been made, because of "market realities". Ivory became the solely credited screenwriter, and subsequently sold the rights to the screenplay to Guadagnino's company . It marks Ivory's first produced screenplay since Le Divorce (2003), and the only narrative feature that he has only written, not directed . Despite that, Ivory was "very much involved" with other aspects of the production . Guadagnino chose to dedicate the film to Bill Paxton--a friend of the director, Spears and his husband, Brian Swardstrom--after his death in February 2017 . </P> <P> Call Me by Your Name is the final installment in Guadagnino's thematic Desire trilogy, following I Am Love (2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015). The film represents a departure from his previous work, as on it he took a "non-aggressive" and simple approach; he has said this is "the most calm" movie he has made . Despite being a literary adaptation, many scenes in the film play out wordlessly . "Words are part of what's going on, but it's not necessarily what's going on underneath . I think this film celebrates the underneath," he said . Guadagnino considers the film an "homage to fathers," referring both to his own father and to four filmmakers who have inspired him--Jean Renoir, Jacques Rivette, Éric Rohmer, and Bernardo Bertolucci . </P> <P> Guadagnino has described Call Me by Your Name as a family - oriented film for the purpose of "transmission of knowledge and hope that people of different generations come to see the film together ." He never saw it as a "gay" movie, but rather calls it a film about the "beauty of the newborn idea of desire, unbiased and uncynical," and reflecting his motto of living "with a sense of joie de vivre", in which "we should always be very earnest with one's feelings, instead of hiding them or shielding ourselves". The director attempted to avoid the flaws he had seen in most coming - of - age films, in which growth is often portrayed as a result of resolving certain preconceived dilemmas--such as having to choose between two lovers . He also wanted the story to follow two people in the moment, rather than focus on an antagonist or a tragedy, a specific approach inspired by À nos amours (1983), directed by Maurice Pialat . As someone who considers sex in film a representation of the characters' behavior and identity, Guadagnino was not interested in including explicit sex scenes in the film, in order to keep the tone as planned, saying, "I wanted the audience to completely rely on the emotional travel of these people and feel first love...It was important to me to create this powerful universality, because the whole idea of the movie is that the other person makes you beautiful--enlightens you, elevates you ." </P> <P> The film differs from its source material in a number of ways . While the novel serves as a memory - piece from Elio's perspective, the filmmakers chose to set the movie entirely in the present timeline, a "much more efficient" solution, to help the audience understand the characters and "reflect the essence of the book ." The setting was changed from Bordighera to the countryside of Crema, Lombardy, where Guadagnino lives . He decided to push up the original setting from 1987 to 1983--which he explained was a year, "in Italy at least, when everything that was great about the' 70s is definitely shut down", and one in which the characters "are in a way untouched by the corruption of the' 80s--in the U.S., Reagan, and in the UK, Thatcher". Mr. Perlman's profession was refined by Ivory from a classics scholar to "an art historian / archeologist type ." </P>

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