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And one of those theories is:
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If you're in a vehicle or in a train
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with your actors,
and the camera is inside,
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you shoot everything inside that train.
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Most directors would shoot the scene,
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and then take their camera out
into the field
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and show the train in a long shot
going from left to right.
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But once you're in the car,
you must stay in the car.
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(Dern) He said, "Bruce, you know
what would make this scene work?"
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And I didn't know.
So, he had to explain it to me.
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He said, W ell, what I do is I do
close-ups of you and Barbara,
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and I do the car's point of view
of the road.
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And I never show you the car.
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I show you the car when the oil's
coming out of the brake thing,
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and then I let the car go.
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And I just cut to you
and the car's point of view of the road.
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That way, the audience thinks they're you
and are going through the trip."
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He does that on all his movies. I mean,
that's the way to keep suspense.
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I didn't know that. I didn't know
that's why it worked in a movie.
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Then at the end,
we have the car crash.
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And the first thing you see
is the car is upside down,
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and here's Barbara's head
peeking out of the top.
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And then she's going
to try to get out of the car.
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She starts climbing out,
and her foot is on my face,
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'cause the car is upside down like that.
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Well, that's just, you know. Hitchcock
said, W omen always walk on men."
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"They walk all over 'em."
So, why not, you know?
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Then I come underneath the car
with my head out that way,
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and he said, "You be a worm,
and she'll be a bird."
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Well, that's inventive.
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(Devane) When I first met him,
he said, "William Powell."
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I don't know if I could play
on that scale, anyway,
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but I wasn't quite sure what he meant.
:55:44
I knew he wanted it kind of light.
:55:46
That's all he said to me was,
"William Powell."
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Brilliant planning.
:55:51
They don't have a single lead to follow.
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And about three weeks into it,
at lunch one day I said to him,
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"You know, Hitch, I assume
I'm doing what you want,
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otherwise, you would tell me."