Falling squarely into the latter category,The Vast of Nightwas one of cinema’s best surprises.
Interestingly enough, the script sort of took over, and the camera drifted out of the switchboard."
The script pages below reveal how the scene was written.
Jake Horowitz and Sierra McCormick in ‘The Vast of Night’.Credit: Amazon Studios
One, the back of the gym didn’t actually have any windows.
“Their work was above and beyond what I expected to get,” he admits.
“It was really the reason this all came together.”
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The set
The film takes place in the 1950s in a small New Mexico town.
The VFX team would later remove any lighting equipment in the shot.
“Hopefully the experience that the viewer is having is reflected by the music.
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I really have to hand that off to my guys.”
An unexpected feline appearance also derailed a take.
“Then they had to stop and then they had to [drive] back.”
This image shows a diagram of the shot as it was first imagined — from the switchboard to the gym to the radio station — and includes estimations of the time spent between locations.Courtesy of Andrew Patterson
The crew also ran into problems with anachronisms.
The end results
Clearly, thanks to some movie magic, it all worked out.
For Patterson, the reaction to the sequence, and the film at large, surpassed his wildest expectations.
