Editor Thelma Schoonmaker on cutting Martin Scorsese's TheIrishman
” received a total of ten nominations and was unlike anything Scorsese had done before. “He wanted it to be deceptively simple with no crazy editing,” Schoonmaker says.
The film opens with a long tracking shot, setting the tone — it’s drawn out and the intention was to draw the viewer in. “You think, ‘Oh, what? A nursing home?’ You register that’s what it is. You arrive at this old man in a wheelchair, but then we hear him in voiceover,” Schoonmaker says.Scorsese deliberately chose “In the Still of the Night” by The Five Satins as the film’s opening song. “The reason he chose that was because they kill, in the still of the night.
Aside from having to adapt to the style that Scorsese wanted, she also had to adapt to the de-aging effects and collaborated with VFX supervisor Pablo Helman. The VFX proved to be a turning point in motion capture as Helman and the team at Industrial Light and Magic developed new infra-red cameras to capture the actors and their motions. She explains, “Pablo said, ‘I’ll come up with a system so you don’t have to do that.
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