{"id":9794,"date":"2016-01-13T01:41:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T01:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/01\/13\/for-fury-roads-fluid-editing-miller-called-upon\/"},"modified":"2016-01-13T01:41:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T01:41:35","slug":"for-fury-roads-fluid-editing-miller-called-upon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/01\/13\/for-fury-roads-fluid-editing-miller-called-upon\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

For Fury Road\u2019s fluid editing, Miller called upon his wife, Margaret Sixel, who had spent most of her career editing documentaries and had never cut an action movie before. \u2018We\u2019ve got teenage sons, but I\u2019m the one who goes to the action movies with them!\u2019 laughed Miller. \u2018So when I asked her to do Mad Max, she said, \u2018Well, why me?\u2019 And I said, \u2018Because then it\u2019s not going to look like other action movies.\u201c
\nAnd it doesn\u2019t. Compare the smart, iterative set pieces of Fury Road to one of the incoherent car chases in Spectre, for example, and you\u2019ll see that Sixel prizes a sense of spatial relationships that has become all too rare in action movies. \u2018She\u2019s a real stickler for that,\u2019 said Miller. \u2018And it takes a lot of effort! It\u2019s not just lining up all the best shots and stringing them together, and she\u2019s very aware of that. She\u2019s also looking for a thematic connection from one shot to the next. If it regressed the characters and their relationships, she\u2019d be against that. And she has a very low boredom threshold, so there\u2019s no repetition.\u2019
\nThat Sixel was able to whittle 480 hours of footage down into a movie that sings still astounds Miller. \u2018It\u2019s like working in the head of a great composer,\u2019 he said. \u2018Movies like this one \u2014 in particular this one, because it\u2019s almost a silent movie \u2014 are like visual music. In the same way that a composer has to have a strong casual relationship from one note to the next, paying attention tempo and melodic line and overall structure, it\u2019s exactly the same process that a film editor must have.\u2019 Sixel, surely, is one of the greats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Director George Miller Explains Why His Mad Max: Fury Road <\/i>Deserves These Oscar Nominations<\/a> (via jag-lskardig<\/a>)<\/p>\n

so good on George Miller for giving credit to his wife and colleague. that said, FUCK YES\u00a0women have ALWAYS edited for male directors<\/a> without getting any recognition within the industry let alone any kind of mainstream acclaim. I mean, film editing isn\u2019t really on the radar for most moviegoers\/watchers so yeah, I don\u2019t expect people to know this? But goddamn, even so many self-proclaimed film and cinema buffs fail to realize that so many of the \u201cbest\u201d movies (mostly directed by men, natch) were edited by women. Does anyone remember that quote\/anecdote about male directors discouraging their female film editors – or even actively sabotaging potential opportunities – because they didn\u2019t want to lose the person who made sense of all their footage?\u00a0<\/p>\n

(via ladyoflate<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Fury Road\u2019s fluid editing, Miller called upon his wife, Margaret Sixel, who had spent most of her career editing documentaries and had never cut an action movie before. \u2018We\u2019ve got teenage sons, but I\u2019m the one who goes to the action movies with them!\u2019 laughed Miller. \u2018So when I asked her to do Mad … Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3467],"class_list":["post-9794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-films-are-so-amazing-omg","post_format-post-format-quote","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}