Watch a Sniper Scene From ‘Civil War’ | Anatomy of a Scene

my name is Alex Garland and I'm the writer director of Civil War so this particular clip is roughly around the halfway point of the movie and it's these four journalists and they're trying to get in a very securious route from New York to DC and encountering various obstacles on the way and this is one of those obstacles what they find themselves stuck in is a battle between two snipers and they are close to one of the snipers and the other sniper is somewhere unseen but presumably in a large house that sits over a field and a hill it's a surrealist exchange and it's surrounded by some very surrealist imagery which is there in broad daylight and Broad Sunshine there's no indication that we're anywhere near winter in the filming in fact you can kind of tell it's summer but they're surrounded by Christmas decorations and in some ways the Christmas decorations speak of a country which is in disrepair however silly it sounds if if you haven't put away your Christmas decorations clearly something isn't going right what's going on someone in that house they're stuck we're stuck and as a bit of imagery it felt like it hit the right note but the interesting thing about that imagery was that it was not production designed we didn't create it we actually literally found it we were driving along and we saw all of these Christmas decorations basically exactly as they are in the film they were about 100 yards away just piled up by the side of the road and it turned out it was a guy who'd put on a winter wonderland Festival people had not dug his winter wonderland festival and he'd gone bankrupt and he had decided just to leave everything just strewn around on a farmer's field who was then AB absolutely Furious so in a way there's a loose parallel which is the same implication that is exists within the film exists within real life you don't understand a word I say yo what's over there in that house someone shooting it's to do with the fact that when things get extreme the reasons why things got extreme no longer become relevant and the knife edge of the problem is all that really remains relevant um so it doesn't actually matter as it were in this context what side they're fighting for what the other person's fighting for it it it's just reduced to a survival

Channel: The New York Times

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Length: 3min 2sec (182 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 12 2024