Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works ... Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm or intense the claustrophobia could be inside your average family car.
Neil LaButeI was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters. If you remember from the book, they find the letters and then in the most undramatic way they take them downstairs, they get approval, they sit at a table during the day with their own author, across from each other.
Neil LaButeThere were certain things that I watched, and I screened a series of period films as well, not because I wanted to copy those, because I wanted to be different. โFar from the Madding Crowdโ was one I looked to because I thought it looked so good. โDoctor Zhivago.โ Unrequited love is always a great thing. โTessโ was something I looked at, I thought Polanski got the period right.
Neil LaBute