vendredi, 29 mars 2024

Le réalisateur de Cyrano, Joe Wright, a dû réussir un «petit tour astucieux» pour empêcher la meilleure scène du film d’être coupée



(Image credit: United Artists)

Fortunately, Joe Wright recognized the impact of “Wherever I Fall” and refused to let it be excised from his movie – employing his skills as a director to ensure that the sequence became essential to the production.

I learned this amazing bit of trivia last week when I had the pleasure of interviewing the filmmaker and Cyrano star Kelvin Harrison Jr. during the movie’s virtual press day. Having been floored by the song in the movie, I asked both men separately what it was like to shoot it, and they explained how it had nearly not made it to the editing room, let alone the proverbial editing room floor. Wright explained,

We were up Mount Etna shooting this movie… We had started working at 16,000 feet, and then snow fell and meant we couldn’t access our set. So we had to move down to 8,000 feet, and we lost a lot of time in that move, and so the schedule became compromised. People, everyone, was looking for cuts, and as that song doesn’t include any of our principle characters, it seemed to some like an obvious candidate. But I felt that the song was really the emotional backbone of the movie.

Some say that any creative must kill their darlings, but “Wherever I Fall” was one that Joe Wright wouldn’t let be murdered. The song was originally written as a part of the stage musical on which the new film is based (hence why no Oscar nomination), with music by Bryce and Aaron Dessner, and lyrics by Matt Beringer and Carin Besser, and the director would not let it be skipped over in his adaptation.

So what did the filmmaker do? He made it impossible for the scene to be removed by altering his plans for shooting it. He blended together an establishing shot with the performance of the song, and the way it was constructed meant that it became essential in the editing. In Joe Wright’s words,

I determined that it should definitely stay and designed the shots in such a way that I covered it as part of the master shot, the wide shot, that slowly pulled back through the guys in the end to reveal Cyrano and Christian – and thereby making it impossible to cut. And I had to do the close ups of the guys. And so it was a crafty little trick of mine.

While the scene is a special thing to witness as part of the cinematic experience of Cyrano, you can listen to the heartbreaking song “Wherever I Fall” below:




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