a jeste jeden cruise. slibuju, ze posledni; sam ho moc nemusim ,)
In Vanilla Sky (2001), the scene with Tom Cruise alone in Times Square is not computer enhanced. Instead of digitally recreating the landmark or removing the people in post-production, Cameron Crowe was able to secure 90 minutes on a Sunday morning in November 2000 at a cost of $1million and close off several blocks for filming one scene with permission from the Mayor of New York.
How it happened👇
The former New York Mayor had only one condition before agreeing to shut down one of the biggest tourist destinations in the world. Crowe explains; “I said, ‘Great news! What’s the condition?’ And they said, ‘You! Somebody there has done some research on you, and heard that you do a lot of takes.’ I was like, ‘What?! I’m a thorough director, but this intel is in the mayor’s office?’ They were like, ‘Yeah, somebody there is worried. They don’t want you in Times Square running around with Tom Cruise, with you shooting stuff, with no clear plan.'”
Crowe and his team then spend weeks prepping and rehearsing for the sequence. On the day of the shooting, the production had Times Square for three hours, and everything runs smoothly, according to Crowe, they managed to do multiple takes, and they still had more than an hour left. “And Tom Cruise says, ‘I’ll just run. I’ll just run back and forth and you can do running shots.’ Which was what the mayor’s office was afraid we’d be doing.”.
After the production wrapped, other people put in requests to shut down Times Square, but got denied. “The thing they told us from the beginning to the end is that this will never happen again. And I wish that it hadn’t,” says Crowe. As for who else put in a request, “Danny DeVito. I’m not sure for what movie, it was a couple of months after us. Sorry, Danny.”
(Source: Cameron Crowe, The Playlist)
🎥 Vanilla Sky (2001)
🎬 Dir. Cameron Crowe
📷 DoP. John Toll See Less