:03:02
making sure that we weren't creating
too difficult a scene...
:03:05
for the animators to work with.
:03:07
I just love this upcoming bit
with Proteus fighting.
:03:11
It's just that the choreography on that
is so cool.
:03:13
That's real animation tour de force.
I mean, this is Rodolphe...
:03:16
animating a fight.
:03:18
That was always his dream,
to animate this kind of thing.
:03:21
If your DVD player has single frame ability...
:03:23
we recommend you back up
and single-frame through the conflict.
:03:29
There's no live-action reference at all.
:03:32
Pay attention to the performance
when you hear Sinbad's voice...
:03:35
for the first time in 10 years.
:03:36
It's not just the physical part
of that performance...
:03:39
but also what's going on emotionally
for Proteus.
:03:44
The Book of Peace.
:03:45
Our MacGuffin, we love it dearly
and we had a million ways to explain it...
:03:49
and ultimately let it be explained visually.
:03:52
Raymond and his team came up with this
lovely kind of clockwork of a heavens look...
:03:56
for the Book of Peace.
:04:02
The Book of Peace.
:04:04
It's my job to bring it safely to Syracuse.
:04:07
Really? See, now I just feel bad
because you're gonna get fired.
:04:12
You can't be serious. You disappear
for 10 years, show up, and rob me?
:04:15
I wish it wasn't you. I do. Really.
:04:19
- But...
- But it is me, Sinbad.
:04:20
You know, our actors are actually
never in the same room together.
:04:23
This is a marvelous bit of dialogue...
:04:26
between Brad Pitt and Joseph Fiennes.
:04:28
Joseph was recorded in Germany,
and Brad Pitt, here in Los Angeles.
:04:32
The two gentlemen didn't meet
until the end of the picture.
:04:36
One of the many sort of fun things
as a director...
:04:39
is working with your talent
and trying to help them connect...
:04:42
with somebody who's often recording
remotely or on a totally different day.
:04:48
This little bit coming up here...
:04:51
where Sinbad and Proteus' conflict
over the Book comes to a head...
:04:54
was actually done many times. And we
debated whether or not to have them...
:04:58
actually draw their swords on one another.
But we figured the stakes were so high...