“We would set the crowd, work out their beats, and I would send out two operators hand-held, to immerse and free-style, just like a news crew would,” Papamichael said. The riot was scripted to function as rapidly intercut vignettes and nothing was storyboarded or shot-listed and they used all of the footage from the three days of shooting. Papamichael was inspired by Haskell Wexler’s iconic “Medium Cool” doc of the event, and they interspersed archival footage that was processed in black-and-white. Fortunately, they got to film in the actual Grant Park, the nearby bridges, and in front of the Hilton, the site of the Democratic Convention. It immediately became clear to Papamichael that he needed to visualize Sorkin’s script in a way that wasn’t too static yet also provided editor Alan Baumgarten (“Molly’s Game”) with enough footage of the ensemble in the courtroom, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt as prosecutor Richard Schultz, Mark Rylance as attorney/civil rights activist William Kunstler, Jeremy Strong as Hoffman cohort Jerry Rubin, Yahya Abdul-Mateen as Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale, and Frank Langella as Judge Julius Hoffman.īy contrast, shooting the riot scenes was more of an improvised, vérité approach, following the crowd of actors and extras as Chicago police and the National Guard. Sorkin gathered his talented ensemble of actors (led by Sacha Baron Cohen as counterculture activist Abbie Hoffman and Eddie Redmayne as political activist Tom Hayden) to run through a courtroom scene without any blocking, after which he turned to his cinematographer and asked: ‘We good?” 'Glass Onion' and 'Avatar: The Way of Water' Enter a Sequel-Heavy Best Adapted Screenplay Race Oscar Voters Go International For Best Live Action Short Picks With 'The Fabelmans,' Production Designer Rick Carter Completed a Visual Journey with Steven Spielberg 'Physical 100' Is a Netflix Competition That's Much More than a 'Squid Game' Knock-off And, you also have to be conscious not to design shots that will lengthen the way it’s covered because it will mess with his rhythm.” “And therefore he doesn’t want any shots that are not just on the person who’s speaking. Papamichael realized on day one that “Aaron is all about the rhythm and the language,” he said.
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