I’d never worked with Yorgos before, so I was really trying to get my head around it. I was more nervous at the end of that prep than I’ve been on any other film because I did not know how we were going to shoot it. Yorgos will answer your questions. You’ll get a sense of what he’s thinking. At the same time, you don’t quite know what’s going on in his head. Then what happened was, the first day of the shoot, he was there to take a still, he showed it to me, and says, “Do you want to shoot that shot?” I go, “Oh, God, this is going to be okay, because he takes pictures and that’s his viewfinder.“
From there on, I got the rhythm and I got more comfortable with what was going on. Then it was like being in a situation where you go, “Should we do that?” And he goes, “No, don’t do that.” Yorgos is a very confident DP in his own right. Across the board, what you’re saying about feeling like you’re being dropped in… in his last film, certainly, you know you’re in good hands. You’re being told, on every level, something that he wants to tell, and I think you totally get that from that film. It’s all departments. His editing is fantastic as well. What was interesting about shooting the film was the use of jump cuts — time jumps — and that wasn’t scripted like that; they discovered stuff in the edit. There’s quite a lot of dissolving going on. None of that stuff was talked about, but you can see on the shoot that he got what he wanted, and now he’s playing with it.
god like the thing is I remember when Lana was big in like 2012-15 and everyone was like so shocked about how masochistic she was and assumed it was just because she was some dumb pop star but like…in 2013 mitski said “I tried to eat like your girlfriend Just tea in the night, I’d end up Too hungry to sleep” and in 2014 she said “One word from you and I would jump off of this Ledge I’m on Baby” and in 2014 Molly Rankin said “you’d like us on top of a cake but you won’t let me take a bite” and in 2016 Michelle Zauner said “I love a man in uniform because he loves me like a slot machine” and “don’t you think you should try to do as little harm as you can to the woman that loves you” like people think that these themes of like masochism and abuse r things that only affect women who are “too dumb” to know better and like if you read Kurt Vonnegut you can outsmart girlhood…and everyone else is just too dumb to realize they can be independent. but at the end of the day like literally everyone feels it you can’t be a woman without being taught to want to hurt yourself and no matter how alt or edgy or woke you are those instincts will still be there…
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