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ART OF THE CUT with Oscar nominee Jay Cassidy, ACE on editing David O. Russell's "Amsterdam"

Art of the Cut

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How to Edit a Climax Scene

I would have been terrified to edit the climax. You've got almost the entire cast. Can you talk about editing that climax scene where everybody's kind of talking about each other? Like many things went through many iterations but the key to it was always and all the iterations of it was to get you into Bert's head early so that you are all sort of hearing it from his point of view. So once you realize you're hearing it from this distressed point of view you could be less literal with the conversation.

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