Research

thoroughly researched, chosen, written. If you freeze frame and close in, each one of those articles and quarantine bulletins are actually precise. We wanted the world to be true and rich in texture. We spent a lot of time doing that.

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in terms of a person's response to having strangers in their house after three years, the disappointment of it not being his wife and daughter, somebody in his space touching his stuff, you know, the research we did and how people deal with interacting socially once again, you know, after they've been by themselves for so long. But, you know, you bring up this idea, which I think I'm now referring to in my mind, is the ham hock theory, which is, I think, very, very important in movie making, which is,

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Ridley Scott

The guy that had to do the research was Thomas Harris and then Steven Zaillian. Here we have an Italian which I think is rather elegant. I think the pronunciation is slightly more ancient. Beautiful.

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before we were going to shoot, like the research we did in Russia, and then learning about nuclear physics and spending time with a gentleman from Massachusetts Institute of Technology who basically educated us on nuclear physics and working with that. There's a particular lighting effect from...

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James Mangold

Byron Axe Pius, a few years ago, when he was under contract with Central, I seen him and a bunch of other pinks mow down 32 Apache women and children. Renegades gunning down railroad men and their families, picking them off the road one by one. Similarities in this dialogue to our current circumstances are not coincidental. As I did research and did some writing myself on the dialogue and structure of the script, one of the things that

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It's tough when you're, you know, as a second unit director, you're trying to interpret what the first director wants, and sometimes you make different choices, and, you know, so it's, oh, and there's a little technical mistake, the name of the nuke on the thing there was, we researched it, and then the one designer guy who was doing that shot researched the wrong number on the nuke, and then we found out after the shots were all finished that that number actually is, Mark 83 is not a nuke that could fit in that. Oh.

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