“Behind the Curtain: Jason Reitman’s Masterful Dance Between Reality and Imagination in ‘Saturday Night'”
“From the first moment I ever sat at SNL and watched that thing go live, there was a part of me that wanted to capture it,” he said of the origin story for his new film. But with almost 50 years on the air, what story to choose for a feature film? Reitman went with what has become Saturday Night, which chronicles in real time the making of the first-ever SNL episode, where everything that can go wrong does.
“A documentary and a narrative feature are different things,” Reitman told National Post. “And the purpose of a narrative feature is to feel something. My guiding truth was: What did it feel like, moments before this show went to air when it seemed impossible?”
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