Uncover the Untold Secrets Behind Re-inventing the Western with Joe Cornet on SYS Podcast Episode 538
Joe Cornet
The tone didn’t change but you know with every film you make on whatever level of budget you’re working with you have your script and then you have what you actually shoot and very rarely, you know, I was lucky with Promise every word that I wrote is on that screen you know um but you know things happen sometimes you lose actors sometimes the set situation changes sometimes there’s just not enough time to get everything that is there so you need to you need to be accepting that you’re going to have to what was it William Faulkner said kill your darlings and uh and edit and sometimes you have to edit out of necessity either for time or budget or whatever I mean you know I’ve had situations where not many but where actors their car breaks down they can’t make it that day so we’ve got to shoot around it which means that when they do show up we have to eliminate portions of things with this there were changes that were made um onset but the basic structure of the story remained intact there were a couple of characters that were cut and they were cut for not economic reasons but maybe story economy to make because one of the ways a thing like this has to has to do has to form like is it has to just rattle on just very boom, boom, boom, boom, boom it can’t you can’t get into a lot of sidebars and different character you know offshoots and things like that so some of that had to be cut. Whereas I was always a big fan especially when I was doing my earlier films of giving these long sidebars of dialogue to like characters that maybe only had one or two scenes but it was interesting, it was character, again it was tone with something like this it needs to crackle on like a like a freight train and just boom
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