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To do a great job with the clean up.
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A lot of discussion went into
whether Sinbad should actually say.
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"Could you love a man who'd run away?"
Because at that point the audience knows...
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that he is going to remain true to his friend.
1:05:14
The important thing was that Sinbad's
emotional change...
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play on-screen not off-screen.
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If he was to come back and save Proteus...
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without us seeing that change,
we'd have been deprived...
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of seeing his deepest realization
of who he really was.
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As a result,
we cut heavily into this sequence.
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We used to have
Proteus make a very long walk...
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but because we signaled to our audience
that he's going to make the right choice...
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we cut it down to this moment
where there's some tension...
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but we didn't go as far as milking it...
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since the decision to come back
has been made.
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One of my favorite performances of Brad's
is this whole set of lines...
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in which he's both triumphant,
but then ultimately so sad and vulnerable.
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Very tough scene.
In a short number of lines...
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he goes from saving his friend
to confessing failure.
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I did my best.
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It wasn't enough.
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No.
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Again, reminding people that in spite of
what we think we created here...
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which is great intimacy,
these actors were never in the same room.
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Everything was cut together...
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in the editing suite
to create the actual moment.
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- Marina took the stairs, by the way.
- The elevator.
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Well, the dog could hardly climb up
the grappling hooks.
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They did a nice job in compositing. I think
Steve Childers worked on this sequence...
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- tried to figure out all the crowd continuity.
- Oh, yeah. God!
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Because there's two executions
back to back...
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we did try to shoot them in different ways...
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and Damon's team came up with...
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a different visual language for Sinbad's
walk to the block than Proteus'.
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We tried to find something
shot with slightly longer lenses...
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and much more personal to him...
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compared to a much more public execution
for Proteus.