“Everyone bitches and moans about how many takes I do. People I’ve never even met complain about how many takes I shoot. The take of Neil Patrick Harris parking that jaguar dead center in the middle of that frame… that was take 2. It was take 2 and it’s in the movie. We walked away on take 2. So, please, go fuck yourselves.”
David Fincher, the unrivaled king of commentary tracks.
Carl Foreman and Fred Zinnemann set out to make a defining anti-western and they certainly did it. A towering achievement.
I can’t recommend highly enough a book called “High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic,” by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Frankel. It tracks the making of High Noon and its various participants, withwoth a particular emphasis on screenwriter Carl Foreman and how his own experiences with the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) shaped…
Not really my (butter)cup of tea, but Mandy Patinkin is extraordinary and it’s a great tragedy we never got a prequel about his quest for vengeance.
A very relatable story in the sense I would also question my engagement if Allison Brie showed up and wanted me.
Just spitballing here, but I think a throuple would’ve solved all their problems.
