This has me thinking about the production of really serious material. I’d imagine people are still enjoying their jobs and everything, but does the mood get all down when sitting a serious scene and having to put actors through their paces for multiple retakes? I’d have to imagine certain scenes would just be super emotionally taxing for the whole crew.
I’d have to imagine certain scenes would just be super emotionally taxing for the whole crew.
That’s pretty much true. Sometimes actors even quit a role because it becomes too much. There are always exceptions of course (for example shows with many seasons where everybody on set already knows each other well) but especially with method actors the mood of the scene is usually also the mood that’s present during the shoot. With theatre it’s even worse because you need to get into that role again and again. Takes a certain type of character for that.
Imagine messing up halfway through a terrible rape scene
Multiple takes yes. Screw ups yes. But there’s no hidden blooper reel.
Are you doing the Louie CK bit? (Louie? Louis? I can’t ever keep it straight)
Where he talks about how somewhere there 100% exists a test reel of dozens of little girls trying out for the “
girl in the red dressgoodbye girl” part. Dozens of little girls brought or dragged by their parents to a casting call hoping to get their darling into the business. Dozens of little girls saying that line (“goodbye Jews”) emphatically, petulantly, sweetly, angrily, monotone-ly, loudly, softly…Those are two different roles.
Red dress was a victim, “goodbye girl” was a non-Jewish character celebrating the purge of the Warsaw(?) ghetto.
Never seen that bit. I was never a fan of his, even before he got canceled
The girl in the red dress was a Jew, right?
Or, did you mean the children actors, in general? I may have misunderstood.
I think I conflated red dress girl with goodbye girl, as Porrada clarified.
It doesn’t rashly matter; all of the roles had to be casted. I wonder what that experience is like for the children. Life is Beautiful, for instance, or Saving Private Ryan (remember the French couple in the bombed out town?). How do you direct a child to emote trauma?
Depends on the director. Can’t remember who it was, but I remember reading about one where to get the children’s fearful reactions, they just actually scared the living shit out of them.
Well, that’s one way!
That can’t be legal anymore, right?
Not in the way you’re implying.
I doubt that.
You doubt mistakes were made in filming Schindler’s List?
