The Many Saints of Newark with Alan Taylor and Greg Mottola (Ep. 326)
The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast
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Was It Your Decision to Shoot in Two, Three, Five Aspect Ratio?
The riots were always a part of the movie. I think partlytsth, it's the period, is the time. It's the violence. We shot this, we started shotin n two thousand 19 and george floyd. Then happened after we paused for covid and the black lies matter movement rose up. So it's what makes it resonant. The thing that i want to make clear, too, is thatis theomatically really important to the movie. And i think some soprano spans are wondering why we're going off into this world and featuring the riots of the time. And, eh, to me, it it's ct understanding that time.
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