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Lee Smith - Editor

Team Deakins

CHAPTER

The Strange Art of Editing

Only if it's cut badly. Like most bigger mainline films. I think editing is that kind of a strange art, whereas unless it's just abjectly shit, and that's will be reasonably unusual. You don't notice it, but you do notice it once you start to pull it apart... So I've worked on some action scenes in one film and they were just you couldn't make head and a towel out of anything that was going on. That's a problem. So I rebuilt them so you could understand. And then other films. Because again, as soon as I start watching the film, I watch the film and it looked way more complicated than I remembered.

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