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Mar. 2nd, 2005 02:44 pmChristine Vachon, who, as the producer, has a totally different experience that night, which explains some of the miscommunication:
It is a mercifully clear night, but with a slight chill that intensifies as the hours pass. Tonight we are shooting Ewan and Christian making love on the Rainbow rooftop. We start with the end –– a big, splashy crane shot with snow and glitter. The crane is on a neighboring roof, but it all goes remarkably smoothly. Then we start doing more intimate shots and time starts to drag. I have a bad cold and I don't feel like racing up the seven flights to the rooftop, so I sit and snuffle on the dining bus. The set falls into that weird terrible time warp where it keeps feeling as if you're about to start shooting any second and then two hours have slipped by and no film has been exposed. It is getting colder, everyone is tired and dopey.... I keep thinking that if we're in trouble, the AD [assistant director] will summon me. When he finally does, he says those awful words: "We won't finish tonight."
However sick I was, I should have dashed up those seven flights the moment we started to drift into that two-hour abyss. It's always difficult to know whether it is making things better or worse by applying pressure. I don't want to breathe down Todd's neck because I know he is just as aware of the time constraints and I am. But tonight I think I gave him too much space and let him down.
At 5 A.M., Waldo [the AD] points to the sky: It's still night but dawn has a way of just cracking over you –BANG!– and then there's no more night shooting. He also tells me the actors seem tired and cold and too exhausted to go on. He thinks we should call it a wrap. Todd seems taken aback, but has no choice in the matter since the sun is coming up. We both go home exhausted, defeated. I tell him we'll figure something out in the morning - our morning.
Interestingly, the next day they shoot Ewan's outdoor concert scene, of which Christine says, "Ewan is in a much better mood than he was last night."
They ended up shooting the close ups of Christian and Ewan on a set twelve days later, on Ewan's last day on the film...we do the two shots from the rooftop that we didn't get on that horrible night. The art department built a brick roof corner. It's so easy that I think maybe we should have done the whole damn thing in a studio.
It is a mercifully clear night, but with a slight chill that intensifies as the hours pass. Tonight we are shooting Ewan and Christian making love on the Rainbow rooftop. We start with the end –– a big, splashy crane shot with snow and glitter. The crane is on a neighboring roof, but it all goes remarkably smoothly. Then we start doing more intimate shots and time starts to drag. I have a bad cold and I don't feel like racing up the seven flights to the rooftop, so I sit and snuffle on the dining bus. The set falls into that weird terrible time warp where it keeps feeling as if you're about to start shooting any second and then two hours have slipped by and no film has been exposed. It is getting colder, everyone is tired and dopey.... I keep thinking that if we're in trouble, the AD [assistant director] will summon me. When he finally does, he says those awful words: "We won't finish tonight."
However sick I was, I should have dashed up those seven flights the moment we started to drift into that two-hour abyss. It's always difficult to know whether it is making things better or worse by applying pressure. I don't want to breathe down Todd's neck because I know he is just as aware of the time constraints and I am. But tonight I think I gave him too much space and let him down.
At 5 A.M., Waldo [the AD] points to the sky: It's still night but dawn has a way of just cracking over you –BANG!– and then there's no more night shooting. He also tells me the actors seem tired and cold and too exhausted to go on. He thinks we should call it a wrap. Todd seems taken aback, but has no choice in the matter since the sun is coming up. We both go home exhausted, defeated. I tell him we'll figure something out in the morning - our morning.
Interestingly, the next day they shoot Ewan's outdoor concert scene, of which Christine says, "Ewan is in a much better mood than he was last night."
They ended up shooting the close ups of Christian and Ewan on a set twelve days later, on Ewan's last day on the film...we do the two shots from the rooftop that we didn't get on that horrible night. The art department built a brick roof corner. It's so easy that I think maybe we should have done the whole damn thing in a studio.
