Pharrell Williams on the Creative Freedom with Legos in 'Piece by Piece' | Variety Studio at TIFF 2024 - video Dailymotion

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Pharrell Williams talks about the upcoming film 'Piece by Piece' at the Variety Studio at TIFF. He breaks down why he wanted to tell his story through Legos and how he made the off-beat idea come to life.

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00:00Cinematically, what are the limitations of making a Lego movie, and then what are the

00:05things that allow you to do things that you would not be able to do in a live action biopic?

00:11Well, you know, unlike most documentaries that are dependent on the visual and the audio of

00:21whatever the documentarian has captured, we had more cinematic license to

00:30depict and illustrate, literally and figuratively, whatever it is the person was saying

00:37who was doing the interview at the time, or the person who was being interviewed.

00:42So it gave us a cinematic liberty that wouldn't otherwise exist. And doing it through the guise

00:49of Lego, it's obviously the first of its type. It makes it an unprecedented exercise, which was fun.

Pharrell Williams on the Creative Freedom with Legos in 'Piece by Piece' | Variety Studio at TIFF 2024

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