Name: How ‘Just Mercy’ Gets Close to Its Characters | Anatomy of a Scene
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T04:10:20.000Z
Duration: 3 min 10 s
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This is a scene between Walter McMillian.

Played by Jamie Foxx, and Herbert Richardson,

And they are in cells on death row in Alabama.

that I learned from speaking with Anthony Ray Hinton,

for 30 years for a crime he did not commit,

they were having without being able to see each other.

Bryan Stevenson said in his book that you cannot really

fully understand a problem unless you allow yourself

playing with with the camera, was leading up

The cameras started off wider on these characters.

And this was the scene where we actually bring the camera

as close as possible to both Walter McMillian and Herbert

And the camera was literally a couple inches

wanting to shoot all of these jail cells scenes

that's coming in from outside the jail cell, which

That is really going to be a big contrast to the moment

when we go outside through Walter McMillian's escape

to the moment in the beginning of the movie

when he is out in the forest and looking up at the trees.

To capture the performances of this scene,

running simultaneously, with Jamie Foxx in one cell

which was very helpful for a scene like this,

And it allowed the two actors to really be in it

And both sides of the conversation were captured.

"I don't want you to think about nothing else.

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How ‘Just Mercy’ Gets Close to Its Characters | Anatomy of a Scene

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