Below the Line: Filmmaking is a collaborative art form, combining creative talents from the various crafts to bring the director’s vision of a script to the screen. Clocking in at close to three hours, Cloud Atlas weaves together six storylines over a time span of 500 years with a cast that plays multiple characters of various genders, ethnicities and ages. The nature of the film called for a collaboration of epic proportions between three directors, two full crews and one single editor who had to keep up with it all.
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This is a really compelling idea, six stories and three directors trying to work together and actually working well together. It seems as though they are getting along and they all have scenes that compliments their fellow directors. I think that is what movie making should be about. I can see how their attention to detail can come around and bite them. They each seem to have a very strong vision and that would be overwhelming for an audience. There can be too much content and that can hurt the movie more than contribute to it. Maybe if they took a step back and took another look at the other footage, there can be some down time in the film and that might make their other moments that much stronger. I don't know what I'm talking about, I have never seen the movie, but it sounds like that is the problem.
After watching the trailer, reading this article, and viewing some of the production photos, I cannot wait to watch this film. I love art that confuses me (like Inception, Memento, and Fight Club) and from what I can tell, this is going to be that kind of movie. I'm also blown away from a purely aesthetic viewpoint. It looks absolutely gorgeous.
The process behind the creation of this film also intrigues me. A collaboration between 3 people that's this intense is any theatre artist's dream come true. I'm excited that the process was successful.
This movie looks fantastic, if only because of the editor and the work he did on this. We've all had to work on group projects where people had different styles and methods than our own, and it leads to a delay in creativity and idea building. The fact that these directors could work together so well and create such an integrated film, and that the editor could artistically put the various movies together into one and still please all of the directors is astounding. This movie is the essence of collaboration.
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