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‘Candyman’ | Anatomy of a Scene

‘Candyman’ | Anatomy of a Scene

Hello, my name is Nia DaCosta and I am the director of “Candyman”. “You want to hear a scary story?” “No.” “Pity.” So this scene is Troy and Brianna – they are siblings – and Brianna’s friend Anthony – who is the artist – and Troy’s friend. And they are all trying to have a nice dinner together, but Troy insists on telling a ghost story about the neighborhood Brianna and Anthony just moved into. You see Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Anthony, Teyonah Parris as Brianna, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Troy and Kyle Kaminsky as Grady. [LAUGHTER] “This is a story about a woman named Helen Lyle. She was a graduate – a white graduate – and was writing her PhD on the urban legends of Cabrini Green. She came to Cabrini a few times to do research. You know, ask questions, shoot graffiti, people. And then one day they just snap. ”So the shadow puppets came about when Jordan Peele, the co-writer and producer of the film, came up to me and said I think we should do shadow puppets instead of doing real flashbacks. And I was in a great mood because I didn’t want to shoot any flashback scenes or cut clips from the first film. So we’ve made a decision, OK, the flashbacks are going to be shadow puppet shows. But then when I was working with the shadow puppets and trying to figure out where they fit, it turned out that they were actually much more useful. So they ended up in this scene. We wanted it to be very specific to the cashier. So every shadow puppet scene has a very specific style and point of view because it’s the way you think about the story. It’s not necessarily the truth. “Helen comes with an offering.” [BABY CRYING] And that’s why we wanted to create this separation between fact and fiction, real and fake. And that’s why you see the hands moving, because it’s about these people creating a story – puppetry, how we think about these people. And for Troy, he’s very hyperbolic because he’s trying to tell a scary story. He also says things that didn’t happen. We made the style very jagged and scary and not the personable character of Helen that we know and love from the original film. “Is my rosé still in the freezer?” “You don’t want the Moscato? Moscato is a dessert wine. ” [CHUCKLES]

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‘Cruella’ | Anatomy of a Scene

‘Cruella’ | Anatomy of a Scene

“Hello, my name is Craig Gillespie and I am the director of Cruella.” “Who are you? You look vaguely familiar.” “I look stunning. I don’t know anything about familiar, darling.” “At this point in the movie we’re almost in the middle of the movie. And it’s the first time that the audience meets Cruella. It’s the first time the characters in the movie meet Cruella. And it’s born of a need for some vengeance. And we’re going to see this group commit a robbery. And it’s something they consider Adults did and they’re very good at it. But that has taken it to a whole other level for them. So we have Emma Stone who plays Cruella. And we have Emma Thompson who plays the Baroness. The Baroness is a fashion icon and has a party here, a black and white ball. And as you can see Emma Stone showed up in a red dress. This scene has pretty much it all – every juggling act in the movie that’s sonic, there’s a lot of humor. But there there are also many emotional interventions. “” Yes . Aren’t they beautiful and vicious? It’s my favorite combination. “” In this scene we’re actually going to see Cruella’s transformation from an outside character because she’s putting a character on here and having to do that dance as an actor to have a deep, emotional response to some of the messages she’s spotted everywhere. But in the middle of the action, a raid is underway. “” You are a very powerful woman. “First and foremost was the dynamic between the Baroness and Cruella. But to make that more difficult, we have Cruella, who is caught in this situation of a conversation with the baroness. And she has to attract a character she is not familiar with, namely Cruella. So she improvises in this situation. It was nerve wracking figuring out this character with Emma because it’s his own character. It’s like being separate from the other Cruellas she plays. And it’s like an elevated version that she isn’t supposed to be good at. So you get caught up in this dangerous notion of equality, bad action and overcompensation. And so, as an actor, you always have the feeling of being a bit in the lead, I think, if that’s what you want. But she is very kind with this work. And then in all of this you have your two cohorts, Horace and Jasper, trying to improvise with the situation. We have Paul Walter Hauser who plays Horace. And then we have Joel Fry who plays Jasper. Part of that improvisation for Jasper is the use of rats, which is a very fine line of getting too grotesque or too much for the audience. It was something Disney was concerned about. But I felt like we could walk that line. And there was a lot of talk about how many rats we could have in this scene. And then you just start to understand how these characters can work so well together and improvise. It was almost like a jazz situation. “” Somebody stole my necklace. ” “I thought it was great that we went through all of these dances. And each character has a different sense of humor. “” It’s a party now. “

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‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ | Anatomy of a Scene

‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ | Anatomy of a Scene

My name is Shaka King. I am the co-writer, director, and one of the producers of Judas and the Black Messiah. This scene happens pretty early in the movie. William O’Neal, played by Lakeith Stanfield, just used a fake FBI badge to steal a car and be arrested for it. And here he meets FBI agent Roy Mitchell, played by Jesse Plemons. The first shot we saw before was of O’Neal’s feet and blood seemingly falling from where you don’t know. It could be from his face. It could be out of his hands. And it’s a leap in time. You didn’t see the attack on O’Neal. And with us we tried to determine as early as possible that this is a film that won’t give you much information. it won’t hold your hand in any way through this experience. We want you, the viewer, to fill the gaps with your imagination as much as possible. Because ideally, we believe that it puts you in the perspective of the person in the film. This scene is one of the most important scenes in the film as it highlights a key factor that we want to convey to the audience. In many ways, this scene is about the danger of being apolitical. We really wanted to bring the old sentence home. If you stand for nothing, everything will fall for you. “Were you upset when Dr. King was murdered?” “What?” “Were you upset when Dr. King was murdered?” ” I dont know.” We see William O’Neal asked by Roy Mitchell how he felt after the assassination of Martin Luther King. O’Neal admits it bothered him a little. And then when Mitchell asked how he felt about Malcolm X’s murder and said O’Neal, I never really thought about it. And you can see that Roy Mitchell smiles a little in response to that question because he found the person he thinks is a perfect informant. In terms of how we used the close-ups, I knew we wanted to save our most extreme close-ups for O’Neal’s gaze in the end. That’s a pleading look to get me out of here. I will do anything to get out of here.

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‘One Night time in Miami’ | Anatomy of a Scene

‘One Night in Miami’ | Anatomy of a Scene

Hello, my name is Regina King. And I’m the director of One Night in Miami. So this is in the movie we just saw our quartet Malcolm, Jim, Sam, and Cassius come down from the roof for a breather. It really is the beginning of the debate we are going to see between Malcolm and Sam. “” You know what’s going on around us, it should make everyone angry. You know, you bourgeois negro, you are too happy with your scraps to really understand what this is about. “Malcolm is really in this room and feels urgently that we as a people don’t have time to joke around or take life easy. And he has a feeling that Sam didn’t use his voice the way it should be. They all have strong voices. But Sam has the greatest reach. “And therefore, Brother Sam, this movement that we are in is called a struggle. Because we fight for our lives. “” My goal at that moment was to determine how we can debate passionately and disagree. But while we can get heads like this, it still comes from a place of love. This film is not told from a person’s perspective. It’s the fly from the perspective of the wall. And while Malcolm throws kicks, Sam throws kicks. And we as viewers just jump from different perspectives as each of them makes a really valid point. And this is the setup for all of these points. “” Wow, Sam, your music is a deep brother. ” “Hey man, I love her songs.” “You have a lot of conversations that just remind Leslie that Sam and Malcolm have a lot of respect for Malcolm while they are having this debate. And to hear those words from Malcolm, that kind of mirror, maybe some thoughts he had himself are a minor blow. And what you play in the quiet moments when you are not speaking is just as important as when you are actually in dialogue. “

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‘Surprise Girl 1984’ | Anatomy of a Scene

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ | Anatomy of a Scene

I am Patty Jenkins. I’m the director of Wonder Woman 1984. “” We need the police here now! ” So this is a scene that we enjoyed so much. It is the first scene in the film that takes place today. The only thing we’ve seen in advance is a look back. And the first scene where we see Wonder Woman as an adult in our film. “What you are doing?” What was most important to me about this scene was that when I was thinking about what we were going to do with the second film, I realized that we wanted to say something much more serious and important than we were saying with the first film. So the immediate thing is, how do you do this and reach the audience that is most important to reaching out with this type of message? Which is the youth audience. It is the heroes of tomorrow who want to inspire you. We wanted to have a fun and engaging playful scene right away, and I’m really excited to be with kids and watch them see that scene. I also longed to see Wonder Woman at the peak of her powers and have a good time to save the day without effort. It’s something I love in so many superhero films. “We won’t do that today.” Where they are only on top of the world and you watch how they take care of everything. Another thing was the 80s of everything. Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman was such a big moment for Wonder Woman and her story in the world and a big moment for me because that is exactly what I saw as a kid. Playing with that version of Wonder Woman that we hadn’t touched on in the first film made me realize that I wanted to do it in the first place because our story wouldn’t allow it. I have a lot more of it because I’m always with myself deal with the main character’s point of view. Of course, she gets into trouble right away and can’t just let go and have fun. It was a great thing to get into the 80s, but also to use new technology. All of these things, including this setting where these human bodies slam and Wonder Woman jumping over the barrier and flying through the air. 100% real, no digidouble, no special effect to achieve this. This was all wire work that we could design and engineer to get every single move there because no one has ever tried to do something like that in a real place. That was an amazing challenge, great craftsmen, and my great second unit director Dan Bradley, my great stunt coordinator Rob Inch. We just had amazing people working on it and making these magical things possible. And of course my cast here made it a sheer delight. [SIRENS]

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‘Ma Rainey’s Black Backside’ | Anatomy of a Scene

‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ | Anatomy of a Scene

Hi, I’m George C. Wolfe and I am the director of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. “You should play the song the way I sing it, just like everyone else is playing it.” “I played a song and played it the way I felt it.” This scene takes place towards the end of the film. Ma Rainey tolerated Levee. He flirted with her friend Dussie Mae. She doesn’t like anything about him. He’s impulsive, he tries to take over, and she has a very specific way of dealing with her music. And I think she is threatened by him too, because he is a symbol of the future. Viola Davis plays Ma Rainey. Chadwick Boseman plays Levee. “You’re fired.” And then the other band members are Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman and Michael Potts. “Do you think it’s important to me to get fired? I’m not interested. You are doing me a favor “So you’re watching this very smart person corner some raw energy and strike, which then motivates them to hit and then give them permission to destroy it. One of the dynamics that is very interesting about Levee, and the Chadwick What was particularly fascinating is that he was able to capture the charm and intelligence of the character in a wonderful way. But at that moment all that is withdrawn from him. And he is only given a series of impulses, but these impulses are based on a bravura that it August Levee mentioned in the play that this door is different, that something about this door is different. This door wasn’t there and they argue with him and say: Yes, this door was there. When she was that Last time we recorded there he was in a different room. But he doesn’t let go of it because Levee doesn’t know how to let go of something. And he just goes on and on around the door. And that’s how it got really interesting for me why Augus t tinkered this moment? Then what’s on the other side of that door? And then it came to me that there was nothing on the other side of the door. It became the penultimate manifestation of his frustration and the sense of powerlessness he was feeling at the moment.