1:02:01
So we simplified it.
One simple question now...
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and that seals his fate.
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I think we made the right decision.
It gets right to the point of it.
1:02:08
And in the phrasing,
that one simple question ends up echoing...
1:02:13
Marina's very first question of Sinbad
when she first meets him.
1:02:16
"Are you a thief or a hero?"
1:02:19
You're either a thief, or a hero.
1:02:23
So here's my question, Sinbad.
If you don't get the Book...
1:02:27
When Eris succeeds,
and I think moments like this...
1:02:32
she's so gentle. We've experimented with
her shouting at Sinbad...
1:02:36
and saying, "Don't interrupt me" and things
in previous versions.
1:02:40
The more we tried that
the less powerful she became.
1:02:42
So with Michelle's performance...
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her most dramatic moments are sometimes
those that are the most casual.
1:02:47
It makes her more powerful.
1:02:51
Sinbad doesn't know the right answer here.
1:02:53
All he knows is who he wants to be,
he doesn't know the truth.
1:02:56
So the platform breaks
because at this moment he really is lying.
1:03:07
Here's our classic villain moment.
The scheming villainess.
1:03:12
The transition to this next world...
1:03:15
At one point we just cut to it
and it was just hard to understand.
1:03:18
And yet we include this simple shot...
1:03:21
and it feels connected to the way
they landed in Tartarus in the first place.
1:03:24
And we understand they've been kicked out.
1:03:26
We had many transitions here
and ultimately the simplest was the best.
1:03:29
The quiet and probably
the longest dissolve in the picture...
1:03:33
tells us a little time has passed
as these two are stunned...
1:03:36
at what appears to be their failure.
1:03:38
I think it takes a lot of courage...
1:03:39
when you're painting backgrounds
for an animated movie...
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to do something
unbelievably austere and simple.
1:03:45
Which is what this sequence is all about.
Desmond Downes and Kevin...
1:03:49
who did all the backgrounds here...
1:03:51
did a great job
of conveying the emptiness...
1:03:55
and stillness and austerity
of this moment of failure.