The Unforgiven director is really known for his ‘one-take‘ style and does not film retakes of scenes until absolutely necessary.
One such incident also took place on the set of J. Edgar when Leonardo DiCaprio requested a retake of a scene in the movie. However, according to Far Out Magazine,
“Eastwood instead announced the day as a wrap and walked off set, much to DiCaprio’s frustration.”
DiCaprio was allegedly so frustrated by this incident that he even decided to turn down a role in Eastwood’s A Star Was Born movie.
Armie Hammer allegedly also got frustrated with Clint Eastwood’s direction on J. Edgar
According to sources, Leonardo DiCaprio wasn’t the only star in J. Edgar who was frustrated with Clint Eastwood’s ‘one-take‘ direction style. Armie Hammers, who played the role of Clyde Tolson in the movie revealed that Eastwod’s direction style was difficult to work with.
According to sources, in one of the scenes, Hammer was allegedly reading from the script in his hand as he thought it was a rehearsal. However, Eastwood allegedly had the camera rolling and later said it was the first shot and revealed that he would edit out the script from the hand of Hammer.
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On the first day of shooting, Damon felt that he can do better. “And on the first day, I did my first take and I knew that I got I got it right,” The Martian actor added. “But I was like you know hey boss, can I have another one?” Damon continued. Eastwood just turned to Damon and said “Why? You want to waste everybody’s time?” the actor recalled.
“And I was like all right I guess we’re moving on. You know, so, that was, that was day one with Clint.”
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Matt Damon just rolling with it makes me like him more.
He's a good little lapdog like he was for weinstein
Too bad he was a huge homosexual on SNL with his or angry Lab rpitine but that probably had more to do with the writing, still should have turned it down.
J Edgar was before he ever worked with Tarantino so I'm sure he got better at not thinking he could boss around directors either before or during that.
Actors are so up their own ass, you are literally a tool for the director. Act accordingly. I remember on one of those actors round table discussions, Christopher Plummer was shit talking Malick because he gave a monologue in The New World, and instead of Malick showing Plummer, he was filming grass in classic Malickian fashion. You don’t get to make those decisions or even complain about them homosexual.
Its kind of a big deal if the actor thinks the performance was bad enough that it would get mocked.
Like we would never have the Bane Plane scene if Nolan gave a shit and did another take where littlefinger didnt sound so moronic
Why would a director shoot a scene before checking for sound?
Nolan doesn't give a frick. He uses those big ass loud cameras and refuses to do ADR. That scene was just an excuse for him to play around with planes.
If I took IMAX off his camera would he die?
It would be extremely unprofessional
You're a big ditector
For you.
And the SAG
The entire movie is like a special education production of a Batman story written by the most autistic kid in the program. Did you want hack Nolan to reshoot the whole movie? It would have probably been worse.
What a shit take. There is certainly a hierarchy on set, with the director being above the actor, but that doesn't negate the fact that it isna collaborative process. Nor does it mean that the actor is not invested in the final product, particularly in their performance on screen, as it can have a large impact on their future career and opportunities.
A director has the right to direct in whatever style he likes, but an actor has the right to speak up if he feels the directing style is not conducive to him giving his best performance.
Your Christopher Plummer example ia fair enough but it is totally different to the Clint Eastwood example so its not really relevant at all.
And by the way Clint Eastwood's movies are great but he has never elicited a performance from an actor that is anything more than serviceable.
>What a shit take. There is certainly a hierarchy on set, with the director being above the actor, but that doesn't negate the fact that it isna collaborative process
who said its a collaborative process? i wonder if you are an actor because thats so out of touch and yet quite keen with their mindset. no. you're the cattle. you move where you're supposed to.
>who said its a collaborative process?
Any director who isn’t up his own ass about his “vision”. Even Hitchwiener was
able to admit when Ingrid Bergman made a suggestion to change something that it was better than what they were going to do.
>not enough takes Clint
>too many takes Kubrick
You are gay in the Malick sense.
I hate when people say Kubrick was a perfectionist, he was really just an indecisive butthole.
What an infantile take. I bet when mommy sends you to beddy-bye time, you think it's a collaborative decision you both reached.
Hit your mark, say your lines, and go back to your fricking trailer
I wonder who’s behind this post
Oh come on. I’m not even a fan of the chick but at least her complaints made sense since the writers had no idea how to write a teenage girl.
>we
WUZ
WE'NDSAY!
She was right and incredibly based for doing so. Fricking shitc**t millenial writers have no idea how to write teenagers
this, seems like we know why Clint's movies are B tier at best. First takes are rarely gonna be the best
>What a shit take.
>What an infantile take.
Too bad, we're only using the first take. You wanna waste everyone's time?
>t. homosexual undecider
Film making is a military operation against time, money, the weather, ect. and theater kid egomaniac freaks don't call shots. Observe the chain of command or find something else to do. Everyone else on set can take orders just fine. You don't see models posing for painters backseating the man with the brush and it's the same for film. You want extra takes rehearse with your castmates on your own fricking time.
lol he was so fricking butthurt about that. And also the Adrien Brody/Jim Caviezel thing with Malick.
>I'M ACTING RIGHT NOW AND YOU'RE OFF OVER THERE FILMING A BIRD
>You can do it again, but the bird might fly away
>We’re making The Thin Red Line and there was this day when there was this army base, and there was hundreds and hundreds of extras and this huge base with tents and trucks, and vintage airplanes taking off and landing. It was this big massive shot, and the camera was gonna’ be in the back of this truck with some of the main actors, myself included, as it drove through the camp. So in order to get the shot, they had to orchestrate this massive group of people, like an entire camp, and they were like, ‘STAND BY! SHOOT THE AIRPLANES! GET THE TRUCKS GOING! OKAY, EXTRAS!’ There was dust everywhere and there was noise, and everybody’s waiting you know, and we’re in the back of the truck, ‘Here we go, here we go…’ and ‘STAND BY!’ And all of a sudden, Terry’s like, ‘Oh look, there’s a Red-Tailed Hawk! Look! John, John [Toll] get the camera! Get the camera! There he is!’ We’re all like [imitating a confused slack-jawed look]. ‘Are we really filming a hawk right now? Are you kidding? There’s airplanes taking off!’ And we sat there for five or ten minutes while he got different angles of this bird flying through the sky, you know, but that’s how, it was like the script didn’t really matter to him, the story didn’t matter, although we shot the script and we shot the story, the movie didn’t really resemble the script by the time he finished editing it. I think that shows real vision, you know, he didn’t let anything distract him from what he found to be truthful or meaningful, whether it was a Red-Tailed Hawk or whether it was a bug landing on a leaf, or whether it was an extra suddenly starting to cry because he was moved by something, or whether it was the main actor doing a speech. So, it was just like he was gathering moments, just taking them with him and then he’d get back and say ‘Let’s turn this into a movie.
you have no idea what it means to be an actor
>Actors are so up their own ass, you are literally a tool for the director.
lol tell that to Tom Cruise. Movies live and die by star power
Tom Cruise is the GOAT so you can't really compare him to anybody, including Leo
Clint hasn’t got time to waste
tbh the dude is 122 years old he could very well wake up dead tomorrow morning
Sounds like when DiCaprio told James Cameron he'd only do Titanic if his character had a disability. James Cameron told him he should try and be a good actor without playing a moron...
kek wtf did he want jack to have a bum leg or be a polio survivor? or did he actually want him to be some kind of mongoloid?
Well?
He talked about it in this video, in the Titanic portion
lol did that really happen. could you imagine if dicaprio always played a variation on his gilbert grape character
Yes. Cameron talked about it recently. He really wanted Leo, but Leo at the time said
A. No audition
B. Disability or trauma
Cameron said he couldn't justify casting an actor in a massively expensive production without screen testing him and that an actor should be able to play normal people and not rely on cheap gimmicks.
geez I know Cameron himself can be a massive egomaniac but frick DiCaprio sounds like a homosexual.
Didn’t Leo also push Scorsese to dump the FBI character focus from Killers of the Flower moon to avoid the “white savior” bullshit?
scorsese is a libtard himself, all the pimps in taxi driver were originally Blacks, but he wanted shrader to change them
The complete opposite.
>main character is the FBI agent trying to get to the bottom of the case
>He's the audience surrogate into this world
>Plemmons get one of the juicy villain roles
>DiCaprio asks Plemmons and Scorsese to swap the roles so he can have it
>Now (at least from the trailers) they have swapped the focus of the movie from FBI white saviour crime flick to psycopathic weasal oppression drama
It would be like buying Silence Of The Lambs and casting Leo as Buffalo Bill (DeNiro already has the Hannibal part) and making the film from his perspective
Then again, that could entirely because Scorsese finds bad guys more interesting.
Leo doing exactly what Cameron said kek
>Me? Act as a normal person? No thank you sir.
Well he got his wish since Jack was an Irish bastard.
The Captian was his father?
>Rose is gonna ditch her millionaire fiance for some guy hooked up on an iron lung
Didn't really think that one through did he
I thought the character was irish.
I watched several little clips of/about Eastwood the other day because of some thread, this one was pretty interesting.
thanks for sharing
Here's Michael Rosumbaum and Robert Patrick talking about working with Clint Eastwood.
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did they just call matt damon a martian?
Clint is a firm believer in 9 to 5 filmmaking, largely due to being pissed off by how some movies like Paint Your Wagon would take forever to shoot.
It’s efficient but naturally sometimes you could do another take
Yeah but once you start making exceptions people are going to make a fuss the next time they ask for ankther take. I understand why he wants to keep it a firm rule.
Yeah, but this also explains shit like the god awful CGI make up and rubber baby in American Sniper and the acting from the kids in Gran Torino.
Armie Hammer was so frustrated he really tried to chew Clints ass out.
Well, Armie is quite known for chewing the scenery more than most actors of his generation. He's really got a taste for specific kinds of performances.
>hey clint, in order to sell the scene, i need to touch my jacket, sorta like this. can i get another take
>According to sources, in one of the scenes, Hammer was allegedly reading from the script in his hand as he thought it was a rehearsal. However, Eastwood allegedly had the camera rolling and later said it was the first shot and revealed that he would edit out the script from the hand of Hammer.
brando would do this intentionally, said his acting was more authentic if he didn't know the script
>know the lines
Brando knew the script, and knew the character, he'd react better if it seemed off the cuff. He was the one who made his own cue cards btw. He built that set up for Duvall to wear. So obviously he had some semblance of what his lines were going to be, but didn't commit them to memory. Which worked for the godfather, but not so well in his other movies.
Interestingly, he was stellar in Streetcar because he knew his lines backward and forward from doing it for several weeks on Broadway.
Jesus bless him
Since it's been said that you have to tire William Shatner out before he'll give in and do a decent performance, I wonder how Eastwood would handle that?
can a movie with 2 90 year olds get insured?
What if he just a needs to pee
DiCaprio is so overrated. Carried by his directors.
the actors are right
c**t Eastwood
Is there any of his movies where it shows, like, the acting in the take is really shitty?
I can feel the good time actors had with him.