January 8th, 2009
Mike Russell interviews the great Chris McQuarrie. Don’t miss it. Just as a tease, McQuarrie reveals this very interesting note about Valkyrie’s profusion of characters:
[I]n earlier cuts of the movie, when characters walked onscreen, their names appeared on the bottom of the screen that told you who they were. We did the full-on “Midway.” And a contemporary audience, watching that, would respond, “There are too many characters to keep track of. I don’t know who all the people are.” And by the way, the script was written with those title cards in mind — so we didn’t put in dialogue that explained who they were. We let the title cards do it. And interestingly enough, when I took out the title cards, that note went away. Because they knew less about the characters, they felt they didn’t have to keep track of them.
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