The idea of directors as perfectionists isn't new by any standard, but in today's terms it seems David Fincher is often cited as the perfectionist director most guilty of several takes. Even recently a Missouri newspaper quoted Fincher's Gone Girl producer Cean Chaffin saying Fincher was averaging something like 50 takes per scene. Of course you also have the Guinness Book of World Records saying it took Stanley Kubrick 127 takes to get the scene where Shelley Duvall swings a bat at Jack Nicholson just right in The Shining, of course the factual reality of that is in question as it's said a two-shot scene between Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers took 140 takes. Then you have the likes of Akira Kurosawa's perfectionism and Jackie Chan's multiple takes due to a lot of stunt work and countless others. However, when it comes to a lot of takes nothing beats the...
- 11/14/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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