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Directing a film,
you just see everything so many times...
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that you frankly just get dead...
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to a lot of the picture, but I have to say...
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every time Eris wore the Sinbad suit here,
my eyes were wide open.
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- I just love some of these effects.
- It's a great scene.
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It's funny that most people
who looked at the pencil test on Eris...
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thought she was blonde.
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If you look at the thing in color,
it's like, wow.
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Yeah, the transformation's amazing.
:18:29
Sinbad's dagger, of course,
that Eris took from him under water.
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All the pieces are coming together.
:18:37
They never really articulate
what the Book of Peace does...
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but it's sort of explained
by its disappearance.
:18:42
It's obviously protecting
the city of Syracuse...
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and once it disappears these terrible
black clouds and an earthquake...
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sends the city into darkness. We imagined
the city would be Dorian Gray...
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would age very quickly,
but we never really got a chance...
:18:56
to flesh out that sort of story 'cause we
didn't cut back to Syracuse very frequently.
:19:00
- That's my favorite sound effect there.
- At one time, we had this whole pass...
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where we were putting in shots
of Syracuse progressively declining.
:19:08
We had drawings of the ships listing
out without water on the channels...
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and all that. But just got a little bit too dark.
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We even had a war going.
:19:18
- Yes, that's right.
- We had the invading armies.
:19:20
We had black ink seeping
through the city, too.
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Volcanoes and comets.
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This is one of the early animations
that Jakob did on Sinbad...
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to kind of define the character.
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And he really found him right here.
:19:34
He found the fun and theatricality...
:19:37
and sort of wit of Sinbad, even as
Sinbad's under the most terrible pressure.
:19:42
Facing a life sentence or worse here.
:19:45
And you can still see the sparkle
Jakob found in Sinbad's eyes.
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He really kind of nailed the look
of Sinbad in that sequence.
:19:53
The lighting of this sequence is a beautiful
job done by Steve Wood and his crew.
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Just the feeling, being in the cell
with the shaft of light...