KING ARTHUR
 Q&A with producer Jerry Bruckheimer		 Search all of phase9.tv






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Without getting too technical, can you describe how the battle scenes were shot? They have a very distinct look.

A number of things go into it. First, they used some filters on the lens that gave it a more colorful hue. Antoine did a lot of that. They also changed the shutter angle on some of the shots so it looks hyper-real. And they used a lot of slow motion. Antoine’s really talented when it comes to things like that.

You’re known to take a lot of photographs when you’re on a set. Why is that and what do you do with them?

Maybe I’ll publish a book someday, but right now I put them on DVDs. The subject matter varies – basically anything I see that I think is interesting, whether it’s a great face, like one of the extras we used in KING ARTHUR, who had a phenomenal Irish face. Actually, the whole collage of extras just looked beautiful.

On a film like KING ARTHUR, how involved are you with the decisions that are made throughout the moviemaking process? How often do you insist that things be done a certain way?

I don’t have a set way of doing things. If you do your job right, you hire talented people and you rely on them for their vision. And then if you disagree with their vision, you argue it out and the best argument wins. So if I have a very strong point of view about something and you can convince me that I’m wrong, I’m there. It’s funny, a maid will walk into a room and look at a poster and say, “I don’t understand that.” And you think, oh boy … we’ve got a problem. So I’ll listen to her and ask her why something doesn’t make sense. And I’ll get a real simple answer, but chances are she’s right and you didn’t see it, you didn’t get it! So I try not to dismiss other people’s opinions.

With so many successful films under your belt, do you still worry about your success?

Sure – I care about what I do. I don’t want to take somebody’s money and not return it to them with a profit. So I take all of this stuff very seriously. I do it with a lot of passion and a lot of hard work, and I hope audiences will appreciate what we do.

Do you ever sneak into a cinema to see how an audience is reacting to a film?

For the trailers, I like to sneak in if they let me.

It must be difficult at times for people in your position to see things like trailers from an average movie watcher’s perspective.

You can get pretty isolated, so you have to be mindful of that. That’s why a movie theater is a great place for me to watch movies. I don’t have a screening room at my house. We have one in the office, but we only use it for our movies or a small or independent movie. But on the weekends if I’m free I’m at the multiplex.

Have audiences changed since you first started in this business?

Yeah, I think each generation evolves in a different way. Kids nowadays multi-task everything – they’re on their computers, they’re on their phones, they’re taking pictures with their phones, they’re playing video games. And it’s all hand-eye coordination. Their interests and their attention spans are so short because they’re bombarded with images from the moment they’re born. So they’re conditioned to get things very quickly.

So if you made TOP GUN today, would it need to be different?

Of course it would. It would have a whole different feel to it. Hopefully it would have the same kind of emotion, though.

Do you think people will still be going to movie theaters 20 years from now?

Sure. I think that even if they have movies on computers, kids will still want to go out and have a date. They don’t want to sit in their parents’ home with their girlfriend. I mean the movies are a great night out. They always have been and always will be.

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