In an era where practically anything can be created with the most realistic detail in a soundstage, Abu-Assad felt if he was going to put the audience in a harrowing situation like surviving an airplane crash, he would have to also put his cast and crew in that same kind of setting.
That meant shooting for a month on a mountain at an elevation of 11,000 feet.
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I cannot believe that they actually choose to shoot this film in actual mountains. While I understand the appeal of getting shots that are “real” I cannot imagine going through that experience. I also can’t fathom what the budget what like for this film. I’d hope that a producer would help the director consider a more reasonable solution. I also wonder why they didn’t use drones to get some of the steady camera pan shots. A drone would have been perfect for a film like this. While I’m happy to know that they were only working on the mountain during days that were deemed “safe,” I still can’t fathom being on a crew for such a production. I also wonder how they got the equipment up the mountain without anything breaking. Transportation for equipment that is so expensive and delicate just seems so dangerous.
The choice Abu-Assad made to film on a real mountain for this movie seems like it may have been a bit too much. I’d be very interested to find out how much he worked with the production team beforehand, or if it was more of a choice that he made with no input from the production team and just told them to figure it out. I really hope that it was the former rather than the later because they are the ones doing the heavy lifting in the snow and an absurd altitude with equipment that wasn’t meant to be in that environment. Now there are certain scenes shown in the trailer, most notably when Kate Winslet falls into the water, that could not have been shot on the mountain, which makes me question why they decided to shoot as much of it there as they did. The biggest portion, the sweeping landscapes, could have been done with a simple drone that wouldn’t have put anyone in harm’s way. I know that there were a multitude of safety precautions in place, but I still can’t help but worry that something could have gone wrong.
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