“One Battle After One other” is a movie suffering from nice moments, from the charming prologue that Teyana Taylor dominates to the poignant “American Woman” needle drop that closes the epic out. However there’s one sequence the movie that critics and audiences have singled out as a standout: the stomach-churning, extremely suspenseful street chase alongside a winding desert freeway path that serves because the movie’s tense climax.
“The street, man,” Luke Lynch, editor of “BLKNWS: Phrases & Situations,” advised “One Battle” editor Andy Jurgensen throughout IndieWire’s Editors craft roundtables. “I imply, it’s only a street, however it’s taking part in with lenses and motion and timing and the suspense that you simply’re constructing.”
Jurgensen and Lynch spoke about their respective movies at IndieWire’s Modifying Craft Roundtable, hosted by IndieWire options author Jim Hemphill. Additionally in attendance have been the editors behind “Hamnet,” “Lifeless Man’s Wire,” “A Home of Dynamite,” and “Springsteen: Ship Me From Nowhere,” who spoke in regards to the challenges and accomplishments of assembling their movies.
Talking on his work behind the automobile chase sequence, Jurgensen stated that the sequence was troublesome to chop down. To get it to the proper size, he relied lots on the sound division’s enter to determine the proper rhythm for the pictures.
“You understand, there’s a variety of footage, we shot from all of the totally different views,” Jurgensen stated through the roundtable. “I made selects, was simply selecting one of the best issues. It was actually lengthy for the longest time. Sending it to the sound division early helped lots, as a result of we might type of give every of the vehicles their very own sound, as their very own character. So regardless that it was actually lengthy, then I might simply take that basically lengthy sequence and chop it up and nonetheless use their stems to type of nonetheless have that very same feeling, the layering on that form of orchestra sound going up and down over a number of the totally different hill sounds. So it was simply fine-tuning until the final day of the combination.”
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