I’m not the only one with a thing for the editing. Donald Sutherland tells the Guardian about what made that sex scene in Don’t Look Now so, well, sexy. Hint: it wasn’t Julie Christie. OK, it wasn’t JUST Julia Christie:
“About Don’t Look Now, we shot that love scene in a room in the Bauer Grunwald early one morning with Nick Roeg and Tony Richmond operating two un-blimped Arriflex cameras and a bunch of wires going to the technicians on the other side of the closed door. An un-blimped Arri makes a noise like a huge sewing machine. Two of them operating together are deafening. Julie and I lay side by side on the bed, Nick yelled instructions. ‘ZZZZZZZ Donald, kiss Julie’s breast, ZZZZZZZZZZZ Julie, tilt your head back ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Julie, come ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. That’s how it was for about three hours. What made the scene wonderful to people was the editing.
He goes on to tell why, and he’s right. But now I wonder when the sound editor gets his due.
Total Recall [guardian.co.uk, all the way down]