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"Wicked: For Good" is definitely Ariana Grande's movie. In our interview with director Jon M. Chu celebrating the home release of the first movie, he opened up about her performance as Glinda.
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00:00The magic of movies are things that you can't think of in your room, that you cannot plan
00:04in a committee, that happen when everything aligns, that you're all telling the same
00:08story and yet there's room for play and that us as the filmmakers really have to be listening
00:14to the movie when it starts speaking back to us.
00:16I can be like this is the frame, this is what happens in the storyboard, remember we rehearsed
00:19this and sometimes musicals can be like that because it's such a technical part of musicals
00:25but I feel very lucky that I've gotten to do a lot of movement with music and dancing
00:29so the technical part is not the hard part, is actually finding what we call butterflies
00:34in this.
00:35It's the moments that hey something's happening and I whisper to Alice Brooks, our cinematographer,
00:39catch her that moment, maybe pull the frame up a little bit, Carson our eight camera operator,
00:45you know when she will rise above it and it just sort of goes up because we had to make
00:48a choice.
00:49You stay down and stay true to this frame or you tilt up and suddenly you do that enough
00:55and it becomes a part of this language, you're like oh something's happening here and we
00:58didn't plan this but the camera itself is as if we're the audience and we're now participating
01:04and that's sort of fun.
01:05Okay so then in one short day, let's make it like we're through their perspective and
01:10let everybody look at the lens, break that fourth wall as if we're a Disneyland ride
01:13going through it and you're walking in as one of the girls.
01:17These are the things that I think are what make movies special, capturing a moment that
01:20could never happen in any other situation, on any other day we would overthink and we try
01:24to do that as much as we could.
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