marykatewiles: travelingstrawberry: The revolving door of…
The revolving door of villain exposition.
There’s so much I want to say about this.
This little dance they do is a work of genius by Joe Stribling born out of our extremely limited time on set. If you’ll notice in the whole of Poe Party, there aren’t many single closeups on characters. That’s cause we didn’t have time to shoot closeups on everyone. Hence, group shots. This three-person villain monologue scene is long. On the page with no action, it could be tedious. And it would require a lot of time to shoot each villain explaining their bit. So instead, Joe had them each weave in and out of center focus during this very long shot, and I think it works incredibly well.
Somehow this simple blocking challenge brought out all these new dynamics between the three of them–namely, that Charlotte and Eddie have this weird sexual touchy thing going on (which I have no idea if Ashley and Ryan planned that or what, but it was a surprise to me) and Anne feels awkwardly third wheel. It’s so fun and delicious, and in my opinion, whatever Charlotte and Eddie’s villain love affair thing is, it makes them both all the more yucky. And I love it.
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Tags: poeparty, fun and delicious, charlotte and eddie's villain love affair thing, joe stribling.
