Saturday, October 18, 2008

Hide The Pipe

 

The second day of filming wasn't as exciting because we didn't have any gunfights and the crew members weren't slipping and falling on loose gravel like everyone did yesterday.


Today's scene involved a lot of dialogue because we were laying pipe. I threw the pipe under a scene where Charlie shows up beaten and bleeding and has to fill in his sister Caroline about the trouble he's in while she tends to his wounds.


We filmed at the Mary Fielding Smith cabin in the historic village at This Is The Place. It was a great set, with a historic building in fantastic condition. A wonderful find, even if we did have to deal with noise from airplanes and helicopters and tourist trains and sirens all day long.


It's always interesting to watch other people reinterpret the things I write. The scene included a lot of banter between a brother and a sister that obviously tease each other nonstop. I wrote it with humor thinking it would be fast-paced and funny with his injuries adding drama and urgency behind the dialogue, kind of the way some scenes are done on Gray's Anatomy, but the actors and director approached it from the opposite direction and made it a dramatic scene, where the humor lightened things a bit. I think it still works their way, but it's always strange to see how different it comes out in someone else's hands than it is in my head.

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