I’ve been editing now for almost 25 years and editing is all I need. I always have great respect for what everyone brings to the film and I put a lot of emphasis on carving out all the love; may it be the script, the costumes, the cinema photography, make up, acting etc. I consider my work to be an interpretation of the script and of the work from other key contributors who are also interpreting the script and in doing so I'm careful never to lose focus on the director´s vision. In that sense I regard editing as a valuable part of the script writing.
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In Defense Of Jurassic World's Claire Dearing
So maybe we will never know if Claire Dearing truly deep down chose to wear heels that day she had to fight for her life, she is after all a fictional character in a science fiction film. Given her characterization, however, I would say she was in control of her own desired image. Despite the dinosaur operations manager occupation, she is not completely unrealistic person. I know women like Claire who do work in a corporate, albeit, non-dino world. And in the event of disaster, she wasn’t thinking about her heels, she was too busy trying to survive.
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