Rewrites & drafts

Tom Hooper

That's pretty much it for the film. At this moment, I was originally inspired by this first draft of the screenplay that William Nicholson wrote, where he immediately saw...

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Tom Hooper

first draft he suggested this idea. This is Lamarck's funeral and you know when you see the show on stage you go from one day more you have a drink and you come back and they're building the barricade but on film there's a chance to show what actually kicked the revolution off and it's this extraordinary day where they took control of General Lamarck's hearse and

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Wes Anderson

Exactly. The thing I love working with digital effects and things is compositing things. It's the ability we now have to take something and replace it, or reposition it, or change text, or modify things in the frame that are absolutely indistinguishable from if we had filmed it that way. All the time we rewrite text and it disappears. But that's a different kind of effects work, I guess. You know, it's often the signage. Probably, I would say, 80% of the shots in the movie have some kind of visual effect. And that all happened in postproduction.

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Everything was all in one case. And Robert Elswit asked, what was supposed to happen? And it caused us to blow the scene up and rewrite it all on the morning we shot it. Which became a theme. Yep, with her, yes, it became a theme. But it's important to always challenge the material. And that's something that we are tireless about. This set was specifically designed for this very reason, is to create...

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Boom. Yeah. Oh, that dog. The dog... The dog gets an award. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Particularly for the one that we were on set and we know that he wasn't hitting his marks all the time. But in the movie, really, you know, he does what he has to do. He's very menacing. It's that extension of the will of the bloke, right? Yeah, I think the first draft that we wrote didn't have the dog. Mm-mm.

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