ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY:How do your respective crafts compliment character and the overall story?
MARK FRIEDBERG:Todd and I have worked together for 20 years.
Todd usually has an intellectual construct in mind a prism or point of view.
Credit: Mary Cybulski/Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions
ED LACHMAN:Youre hearing with images.
Around 35-40 percent of the film unfolds without words.
There are some natural sounds and the music works like punctuation.
Mary Cybulski/Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions
But for me, that was a personal story, here I was recreating the neighborhood of my childhood…
I teased Brian that he wrote the story for me.
Then, [I focused on] the color balance of the film.
Mary Cybulski/Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions
So, shooting on 35mm, black-and-white negative was vital to telling this story?
I bet that was a challenge.
Then, I had to find a lab… at the time there was no lab in New York.
Mary Cybulski/Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions
I dont know of any film right now thats shot on black-and-white negative.
Whats the story behind those?
We then chased down the idea of telling it through miniature dioramas.
Mary Cybulski/Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions
We used the snorkel lens for macro photography.
The mini dioramas becomeofhis mind, and help us connect to his memories and imagination.
Those were all live-action, and werent manipulated digitally.
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