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edricarica  ·  3162 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Great scenes in film

The Tree of Life is AMAZING.

I worked on it in the really early stages of the edit. It was one of those films where we were all so excited to have new rushes come in - all the raw material was amazing: beautiful, powerful, believable.

What was difficult was to edit it. We found that the material would suddenly become unconvincing every time we cut into it.

Malick ended up going through a lot of editors to find what he needed! But he did find it, IMO, the finished film is wonderful!





TelecineTheDog  ·  3160 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know what I find more exciting: That you got to work on a Malick production - albeit briefly - or that you got to play around with raw footage shot by Chivo.

Tree of Life is a film I keep going back to, in particular for the editing. It appears to me that the film structures the scenes and images in a kind of vague jumble much like our memory tends to do. That's what fascinates me the most. What the protagonist remembers about his childhood and his family is not so much the particular events and happenings but rather, things like postures, tones, where he was... everything else being lost to the fuzzy side of the brain. I also think that Lubezki's capacity for capturing that feeling is unparalleled.

It's no wonder that Malick went through so many edits, but hearing that you got to be a part of it is rad! Any more stories you could share about working on that production?