So a few weeks ago on John Rogers’ blog he answered a question from a hearing-impaired viewer who wanted to know if the commentaries had been transcribed anywhere since they weren’t captioned on the DVDs.
3) Does anyone know of any place where the commentaries are transcribed or, at least, bits and pieces of them? Since I’m hearing-impaired, the traditional commentary set-up doesn’t work too well for me and I am especially interested in anything regarding Parker and Hardison. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
3.) oof, we’ve had issues with making sure our stuff is accessible to the hearing-impaired before. I’m sorry to say that there are no transcripts of the commentaries. I’ll see if there’s a solve, but I doubt it.
So I decided to give it a try. This is my first attempt, made by recording the audio from the commentary to the pilot, uploading the first fourteen and a half minutes of that to YouTube, and trying my luck with the Machine Transcription. If you’ve got the DVDs you can see how well it … doesn’t work.
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and christianity recent i’m john rogers
executive richard
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and in the mornings at the present
director of this episode congress
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actually the book the spirit of the
specialists are
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i was the pilots the nigerian java uh…
of leverage this is not the opening
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image
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unusual script
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uh… the rituals for for two or three
different openings award which was more
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alcohol i couldn’t believe it
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and the other one was a really great
comedy scene chris wrote about where you
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see
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the job interview that meeting poured
one hundred before this that all of our
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which should be available in the uh…
uh… deleted scenes section of this dvd
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overnight and they can only be available
unlike the malaysia version and let us
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know
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writing for a lot of stuff we and we
built an office in a big box store and
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had a eliza very complicated to work for
members of the word
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but welcome tony
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uh… and this is the senate version
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that’s right this this was the version
that aired first which was the
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commercial free version
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also this
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his uh… fifty six minutes long as
opposed to the when you’ll see in reruns
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which was cut down forty three minutes
and hope we will see a rerun to just
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what your dvd and combine them
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uh… from france gifts for friends and
relatives and whatever what have you
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uh… sol rack as the bad guy and i’m
asking a question for the singer
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directing career
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business first directing percentile out
when we turn the script
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how did you process what was your you
know how to do that by then
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welcomes your profound retro are people
out there watching a dvd one track for
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the right uh… you know it’s good for
us
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but i think i did see a lot of pressure
on the fact that i was a person director
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so much as
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this was going to set the tone for the
rest of the series
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and you know a lot of these shows
there’s this question of the world is a
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tunnel hand-held shows if they can show
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you know what it what is the the
technique of the show
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so i wanted it to to create this
rulebook where
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this the camera sixty three years
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would coincide with the emotions that
tim hutton is feeling
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if he’s an emotional physical danger we
went
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hand-held if we were uh… in the middle
the congress moves if we were uh… you
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know how things might not be going so
well we’re on a steady camping and so we
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can set these rules
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and this openings that you guys are
which is really an unusual opening for a
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series coincide because so much is going
on simultaneously but it also gave us a
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chance of within the first five minutes
to show every different technique
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that we’re going to use in the entire
series inouye it’s almost been overture
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of different film techniques to tell the
story
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and this is a cheap i won’t be the first
thing that we duties are supposed to put
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it out
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this premise policy which is which
consent
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help hold people got together in the
news
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and it’s just sitting there
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episode i don’t want to use this area
here which could be you know could be
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the first episode could be that the
status of the matter exactly networks
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like workplace will networks like to
show you just with the show is response
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on the other hand really help establish
an incredibly complicated i deal with it
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so we should
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uh… we actually used to the pike and
leave which is writers use resolution
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in this sequence of iran iran which is
really dressed up with is really great
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circle attract shot of you know
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to make it really does really suck you
into it
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but also he’s being drawn into the
ground
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the workplace formed so this is actually
two pilots or spot welded together into
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one of the back after this show is very
much a workplace but i was very much
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hasn’t come to grips with a look now
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exactly
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intending to use and john you’re so
masterful at incorporating stand by me
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and incorporating any
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the title with the action
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which is nothing if you see a lot of you
know in the sequences perfect example
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typically we just had
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uh… these two characters talking about
what they’re going to do and then you
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would see them do it
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and here we go back and forth
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and just keeps the actual size of my
favorite wrench in the toolbox of
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everywhere as the jewel boxes like you
know a little applied through binoculars
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libeled action in the audience feels
like you’re
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is a current akon and friend you’re
giving transactional
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uh… information flight was with us now
enjoy this is with us now and for that
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and the back you dress up a fight to
have to be visually interesting is
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what’s remarkable to me again in the
writing of all of this is that
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were introducing four terrified
caricature played by the way it really
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is activated within twelve minutes while
having the highest
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and establishing their back stories so
what we’re going to be these flashed
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aback sarkar remark was not what you do
this in a comedy
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and yet we’ve got this in the middle of
an action drama which is is is great to
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wear we we thought we merely established
the decision is going to be funny
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but hopefully also get involved in the
stakes and the flashbacks actually help
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because they allow us once we introduce
them here even though the character
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background that allows us to say we
don’t do necessary when he’s really
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going to show
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and so it allows us to do the flashbacks
than the reveals a because later on
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and by the way it goes or those are
lucas approved princess leia sleeve i
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think that’s the only state we had to go
and get those approved by the makes for
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example to look at what they were very
gracious yes
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now this is uh… can you tell us a look
at this location you found the service
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with the irish bar that we turned into a
serbian you and the alternative are with
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the help of market wrap it up
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very very selectively yeah it was very
wasn’t really the rhetoric that
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opposition also piece about theater
singing which was right across the
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street from here
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and then just totaled across here and
uh… we’re the release premature miles
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dispel it was in this one
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the other thing that i really love a lot
about the pilot script and and and we’ve
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tried to continue using the series and
you guys have been such an amazing job
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description is which is
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exposing characters on the flight
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you know traditionally movie you’ll see
the cop go get the bad guy d d’amato
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and then we’ll talk to you that the
funeral home putting a rose on his
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ex-wife’s great
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yeah you guys found there is that there
is needed to know that i think that i
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don’t have any kind of stopped the show
takes plaza character in this
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he always
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came in the middle of something else and
and and and and all moreover monotony
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humorous way
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so i i i just think ice i think that’s
the most difficult way to uh…
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explosive character but i think it’s the
most enjoyable away
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well even going out and making this sort
of subtitles play around with limited
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parker what issue writing back and forth
that was a lot of fun to play roller
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naughty audiences are very savvy
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they’ve seen every one of these
techniques in some form or another
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so why not use them even if it’s more
appropriate for a half-hour and i think
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in the fact that we have backgrounds in
sitcoms
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yes help
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disillusionment and working as a
consultant now that that’s what i did
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was it might take his own project my
take is that she did not just kill her
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parents with people but shares of our
message boards on
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though that’s not my library yeah
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don’t call up or down down that we have
a and by privileges is those were one of
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a series of foster parents yes and when
there were no longer at home but a lot
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of work to do and get ready to go into
the house and have a distraction which
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appears at the
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uh… it’s is supported by the fact that
we cut out the sequence where the dad
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runs out on fire and run screaming nafta
and collapses and he afterwards
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tentatively you’ll find in crowds of
people will do credible things if you
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don’t have to leave your child and
getting ready for sunday at least seemed
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to just watching the bar
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want me to do next week is the unified
impaired cute no that affection just
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over the phone is one of my favorite do
this to affect us right here
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in that if they have
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it it’s taken from a photo of the actual
building and that was actually a digital
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version of parker
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now this is a picture here we swoop
upside down
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uh… above the same thing to do it even
shut shoot that andrea terry stage but i
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had really been the best thing to do it
really what we did all of the shots of
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her hanging
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and the interpreter on all of this year
were on the
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top of a forties for four-story or think
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where we built the false wall
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yes he’s actually hanging upside down
dangerously close to the edge of
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identity dot that it should have been
the winds smacked around and by the way
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that they could make before we shot back
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there is a win stroma cops came is that
you can go on the roof you’ll be blown
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off it
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alone i would be windy in chicago and i
feel great about it i thought that this
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i think that this is terrifying because
i dont approve heights and there’s no
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ledge
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right there is no one does run
financials the other so there’s no guard
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rails as nothing
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and so uh… you just use water for the
edges forty four star dropdown was great
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to be brought death of the and she was
terrified of going up and were like oh
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don’t worry actors will talk you through
it
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we get to the roof and that is skipping
along the edge like
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hello this is great i’m wrapped around
the strife
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february twenty five-year-old child we
just saw cloudy her phony
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united states was screaming
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uh… this great this is great this is
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happy to have practical
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spare well
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the the political economy of this the
um… elevator shaft is
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week we couldn’t get into a shooting
their elevator shafts of finally finally
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got a building although she elevator
shaft
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and the elevator moves so rediculously
salado that there was absolutely no
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drama to the scene
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so we have that
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digitally speed that up until now
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so when we were shooting it i’d told the
actors to act in slow motion
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so all those head moves they’re doing
and i charms
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if we are for the real speed the their
acting in slow motion i will return to
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speed up the shot later at school
liberal leadership since the fifties and
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i think that the other side itself
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but it was a lovely shot him with the
the for plans projected onto a wall
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um… which originally from uh…
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uh… looking tiny corner protectors of
the great papa like that with you for
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coming
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but that we know these looking out the
form a favorite sheep affects how did
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you get him to look out the window and
then to the river shot looking here in
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front of the building was shot from
behind him is actually looking at a real
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window but the shot looking towards him
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we’ll come back from the lender by five
p and then perfect window inside that’s
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and then later we digitally put the
uh…
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the exterior onto the window for
reflections
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so you actually karen was sandwiched
between the rear window of the fake
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windows shooting inward exactly that’s
great
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house for that we were shooting i’ve
seen the whole thing which him uh…
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investigators will be talking to others
are usually not in any way should we get
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rid of the americas and started yet
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veribanc
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so this entire sequence
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which is talking on his he’s loses
shouting to the air at one a_m_ in the
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sand and an office building
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arkansas was that’s all i got there and
and and did the other half of the uh…
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the conversation
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in fact the g_m_ arrived that night for
the first half of the other hand and
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we’ve gone through an enormous amount of
doug pain and difficulty to try to get
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her into the country personalities that
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including getting three senators to help
us in yahya and i was so overwhelming as
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you can also i’d array server and lifted
her off the ground
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and all i was holding earlier there was
insanely inappropriate and uh… i think
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they are american airline dedicated
anything or a hobby touchy people anyway
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for the above address just assume that
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uh… ml brief writing come out here
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this number here
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on this thing is a
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as i can still get me a visit with us on
other fans of uh… wanted wonders that
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you thanks jenny jenny by coming to town
that i see the code the number come
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through this and on i don’t even know
that that’s fantastic
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uh… the corporate sectors to that
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uh… because that that little says
whatever the market
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uh… this is great this is actually the
first time we saw chris fight refuting
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windows so worried about this fight
scene
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began because it’s not guys then inflict
covered all the really super tight shots
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and then we did the master with kristen
and john and i would be silent well
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that’s the kind of inevitability at the
factory even pop in for close up just
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kind of an insult to the level of
proficiency brought to the fight
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and did you do you talk about the effect
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you get any statement have had the any
generated people
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or what we do is as a general rule in
our shows we go hand held during the
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fight scenes and we set the shutter at
the ninety degree shattering which gives
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it a little bit of starry camera will be
using and things like saving private
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ryan in shows like that
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but this whole idea of entertaining that
that falling in slow motion an
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intellectually in distress
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uh… and instead
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the unlike the rest of the show that we
shall unread cameras the fire was shot
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with the uh…
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television genesis which is a fantastic
camera but at that time he didn’t have
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slow-motion so quyet unmixed films
shooting the bank falling at a hundred
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twenty from the second we had the
genesis shooting everything else
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that’s set by the way of this of this
moral obviously you look at those lights
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are popping those look like and with
rosa servers
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those are
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plywood walls
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with even if you look at the photograph
that rob servers
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on the just on the with green lights
behind yeah it is the most high-tech
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cools things i’ve had my entire
filmmaking career
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is literally plywood and foam packaging
and we were together without lekha never
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work and then we thought about
0:12:37.260,0:12:39.670
monarchs demonstrated watching such
tragic
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and had a pretty good shape that we we
0:12:41.849,0:12:46.810
turn off the lights were uh… high-tech
high technology making as well
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anderson one of the uh… there’s a lot
of recurring themes are traded on the
0:12:49.720,0:12:54.350
pilot which was the idea that you
actually put together a scalable
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play individually each one of their
skills which one of those things but
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only nathan for consumer dick
0:13:00.820,0:13:03.980
and henry lee that roller is now which
is standing in an office building
0:13:03.980,0:13:07.920
talking to them was but what the roles
and regions then later on this show
0:13:07.920,0:13:11.439
progress into really like to add a
concentrated reynolds
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much more all hands on deck trip here
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and then you know this week that also
sets up the whole dynamic and why they
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want to be with him
0:13:19.190,0:13:20.300
figures
0:13:20.300,0:13:24.980
they clearly loved never stayed together
without that glue in the center
0:13:24.980,0:13:28.340
uh… that is one of the only two
sections of the thirty day period where
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there are so mysterious for americans
0:13:30.730,0:13:32.130
are very monastic
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uh…
0:13:33.640,0:13:37.120
yes and this is when you start with
charges of the i have a plan and as a
0:13:37.120,0:13:41.099
running gag actually there is a routine
is that are two different personalities
0:13:41.099,0:13:44.589
is i i like several backup plan for dean
prefers to do things that have been done
0:13:44.589,0:13:47.919
before a little bit like parker jumping
off the roof yes i’ve got a little bit
0:13:47.919,0:13:53.070
helpful role in a hole in the entire
company isliye doc
0:13:53.070,0:13:56.630
how does the breast cancer is actually a
little bit of instance kind of a reader
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and brown the whole idea is
0:13:58.660,0:14:02.400
uh… if you don’t want somebody to look
at your pay attention you make it unc
0:14:02.400,0:14:04.990
make it socially awkward for them to do
so
0:14:04.990,0:14:07.730
uh… and it was a great day played a
great deal issued in chicago as we had
0:14:07.730,0:14:12.300
all’s secretary got yet wonderful
wonderful declare actors so that he did
0:14:12.300,0:14:15.530
a great elder son awkwardness of and
chris is really aggressive and all that
0:14:15.530,0:14:18.580
action is that chris is doing uh… this
is really nice
0:14:18.580,0:14:24.850
and yet beth is still pretty with the
burnt naa naa yeah
0:14:24.850,0:14:26.909
and exterior we have a little work
0:14:26.909,0:14:29.949
tribute to usual suspects if you’ll
notice when she starts school