CROSSING THE FINISH: ATHLETE Director Dave's Blog

Difficult. As in "editing this film is pretty gosh darn difficult". Unfortunately, titanium won't do any good here. I think it might be the hardest thing, creatively, I've taken on. It's like a massive, complex puzzle. Now I can appreciate why bad movies exist. It's just so much easier to not have to dwell on the details or think about how the placement of one scene will impact the rest of your film.




D is also for David. As in David Fincher, director of Seven, Fight Club, and my personal favorite Panic Room. After an excrutiating weekend in the editing dungeon, I definitely needed some inspiration and motivation to get my creative mojo back. Nothing better for that than to hear another one of my heroes of film discuss what it was like making his last picture, Zodiac.




After seeing the director's cut of Zodiac tonight (which is two hours and forty-five minutes long), it made me feel a little better. For anyone who's seen the original cut (which is only seven minutes shorter), you know how incredibly detailed the story is. So I can't even imagine how challenging it must've been to complete a film of Zodiac's scale.

P is for perspective.

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