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FOE Movie - Making Of - Amazon Studios - Go behind the scenes of FOE with director Garth Davis, Paul Mescal, Saoirse Ronan, Aaron Pierre and producers. Now available to own on digital.

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00:00 - Do you feel happy here?

00:03 - Of course I'm happy here.

00:04 Aren't you?

00:07 Someone's here.

00:08 - When was the last time we had a visitor?

00:11 - "Foe" is a really interesting one

00:12 because there's so many different stories

00:14 that are happening at the same time.

00:15 There's the story that we think that's happening,

00:17 and then there's the story that's really happening.

00:19 Therein lies what's very exciting

00:21 from a directorial point of view.

00:23 - At the core of it is a marriage in crisis,

00:26 but you've got this element

00:28 that we are always, as an audience,

00:30 slightly behind the characters.

00:31 - I need to have an intimate understanding

00:33 of your marriage, the good and the bad.

00:37 It's between you and me.

00:39 - What myself and Garth were interested in

00:41 is this story for all of its kind of moving parts.

00:44 As Junior and Hen's relationship grows

00:46 and she begins to feel secure,

00:48 you then have another twist in the tale

00:49 that destroys all of that.

00:51 - I think they were kind of the architectural elements

00:53 of the writing and the excitement of what we had ahead of us.

00:56 - There's all these wonderful metaphors in the story,

00:59 how the decaying marriage reflects the decaying planet,

01:02 and these really philosophical questions

01:03 sit in the fabric of the storytelling.

01:06 - Garth is very curious in the best way,

01:08 and I think that's exactly who you need

01:11 to be telling this story.

01:12 - Just concentrating on these three performances

01:15 was exciting because Garth has such a connection

01:19 to the characters and the stories that he's telling.

01:22 - I was very drawn to how he shows families

01:26 and relationships and love between couples.

01:30 It's a feeling, and when you have it, it is exhilarating.

01:34 - Patrice and Garth really explored

01:38 what a realistic future would look like.

01:41 There's old and there's new.

01:42 This film represents a fifth-generation farmhouse,

01:45 but then it has the big chicken factories

01:48 and has the drones, and it shows bits

01:50 of what the future will look like.

01:52 - It needed to be relatable.

01:55 We had to really think around how we designed the sets,

01:59 how much technology we saw.

02:01 - Garth's idea is to make the audience believe

02:03 in the incredible aspect of the story.

02:05 You need to ground everything in a reality

02:08 and not try to over-design it.

02:11 - You really have to feel the ghost of the room.

02:13 You almost have to feel that the house

02:15 has been lived in over time.

02:17 - The house stays anchored in a certain past,

02:20 and only the futuristic elements come from talents

02:24 who brings changes to their lives.

02:27 - You're going to the installation.

02:28 - I don't know, listen to me.

02:29 I don't like how you just show up here.

02:31 - I think Matt Dias was so wonderful at working with Garth

02:35 in finding the camera in the room and finding who to follow

02:38 so that we can really explore the characters

02:40 to make sure that we're getting both of their journeys.

02:44 - Garth is extremely precise about what he wants

02:47 in terms of composition, lens size, camera movement,

02:50 even light.

02:52 He knows what the film needs,

02:53 and that kind of feeling within the house

02:55 very much has his directorial style all over it.

02:58 - Whatever we decide, let's decide together, okay?

03:02 (dramatic music)

03:05 (whooshing)

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