[US Entertainment] Top Hollywood directors

Salma apologized to her full of guilt, telling her it was all her fault.Claire can only answer: "Finish the movie first, and then talk about these things." If it's before the filming starts, forget it, but now the process is halfway through, and she doesn't want to give up "Frida".

Afterwards, the future fate of the crew was unpredictable, but Claire and they withstood the strong pressure and finally announced the completion of the film.

Like the previous "Inhumans", Claire edited it independently, which is very free.But now, with such a large workload, she desperately needs an editor.

In fact, in commercial films in the United States, the director does not have the right to edit alone, which is done by the production company.But the director can be involved in the editing process.

Editing From film material to a complete film work, the editing often needs to go through several steps such as initial cutting, re-cutting, fine-cutting and even comprehensive cutting.The first cut is based on the shot script, combining the actions of the characters, the conversations, the scenes of mutual communication, etc.; the second cut is to make further corrections on the basis of the first cut; the fine cut is to combine the montage structure after repeated scrutiny of the picture more detailed editing; comprehensive editing is the adjustment of the overall structure and rhythm after all the scenes of the film have been shot, and each segment has been finely edited.In the whole editing process, it is necessary to ensure the natural, smooth and coherent narrative between the shots, and to highlight the inner performance of the shots, that is, to achieve the unity of the dual functions of narrative and expression.

After the director and editor have finished cutting a version, the producer will review it, and he will raise the issue of the edited version based on the actual situation. For example, if the film length is two hours and 10 minutes, it will ask for a reduction of 10 minutes, because in the transaction Films that are less than two hours sell better, and of course there are many factors from art to technology to trade.In short, the revised version is the release version.But the director has his own artistic pursuits. The version he cut before is kept, and after the film is released, it will be distributed through various channels. This is the director's cut version.

For example, director Leone rejected Paramount's invitation to shoot "The Godfather" and chose to shoot "Once Upon a Time in America".However, due to the copyright issue of the novel, the film was not officially started shooting until the early 80s.It took almost a year to announce the completion of the filming. The entire material is about 8-10 hours long. Leone finally edited the film into 6 hours and plans to divide it into two parts.Due to commercial considerations, the film studio rejected Leone's request and forced him to shorten the length of the film, so there was a 269-minute director's cut version that was screened in the United States.

However, the nightmare of film cuts did not end. The film crew once again cut the film substantially, and finally the film was released in North America with a 139-minute version.Not only is the length of the film shortened, but even the multi-memory model that was praised in the original version has been tampered with into a time-linear narrative, and the delicate narrative structure has been completely disrupted.After this version was released in North America, it was strongly criticized by the media and film critics.But this also became a major failure in director Leone's career, the biggest regret in his life.Although when the 269-minute director's cut version was screened in Cannes, the audience finally discovered the classics of this film. When Leone received the countless praises he should have, he had already slept with endless belittling.

This time Claire participated in the editing of the final release version, because they didn't give the film to Miramax at all.Since Harvey said so, they don't mind doing it by themselves.In this way, it is both reassuring and the effect is close to the original intention.

Elliot Gordon Sale, who was invited by the soundtrack composer, is also the boyfriend of another famous female director, Julie Taymor.

He was very interested in this movie from the beginning, and he also liked the finished film afterward.After taking over the job, he made a lot of preparations for this, including setting out to collect various folk songs in Mexico.

These ballads contain the passion of flamenco and the vicissitudes of old Cuban artists in the Caribbean, which is the highlight of Latin American music culture.

In the recording studio, he asked Claire who was auditioning: "Is this okay?"