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Proteus met you at the dock.
:53:03
Balancing our quick cuts
in a scene like the escape from the roc...
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we tried to do these long shots
where we would let the acting play out.
:53:12
It's a sort of a risk
you get a little nervous about...
:53:15
but I think we found
a sensibility to the characters...
:53:18
that helped balance all the action.
:53:23
Of course, we've been sailing
for a destination for half the picture now...
:53:26
and finally we get there.
:53:28
It drove our editor nuts
not to have this shot be longer.
:53:31
Poor Tom was like, "Can't it be just
four frames longer, six frames?"
:53:35
We all wished, but...
:53:41
The entrance into Tartarus was the subject...
:53:44
of much debate
thought the course of the film.
:53:46
Originally, there was
a giant mangrove-like swamp...
:53:49
that was inhabited by a Medusa
who guarded the gateway.
:53:52
And then we had doppelgangers there...
:53:54
versions of Sinbad and Marina
who protected the gateway.
:53:56
The doppelgangers
was beautifully storyboarded by Rodolphe...
:54:00
and there was this whole fight scene...
:54:02
where they're trying to beat
the same versions of themselves...
:54:06
the mirror images of themselves.
:54:08
They couldn't do it, so they had to...
:54:10
double-team on two of their opposites.
:54:12
So Sinbad would get on to Marina...
:54:15
and Marina would get on to
the other Sinbad.
:54:18
It was quite an epic battle...
:54:21
but unfortunately...
:54:22
Then we just opted
for the edge of the world.
:54:25
We took the easy way out.
We'll just create the edge of the world.
:54:28
Those of you who are good observers
will wonder...
:54:30
why Eris pointed to a globe at the beginning
of the film and yet it's flat here.
:54:34
So we are accepting essays explaining that.
:54:36
It is all an illusion. That's what it is.
:54:39
Men, all hands to your posts!
Free all sheets! Wait for my command!
:54:43
These poor baffled sailors.
What on earth is the captain talking about?
:54:46
How will we pull this off?
:54:47
Just trust me.
:54:48
Pres was our animator
in charge of the rest of the crew...
:54:52
and so in scenes like this
where the crew are scrambling...
:54:55
and there's quick shots of them tying...
:54:57
it kept Pres busy for weeks.