My Title is Kleber Mendonça Filho and I wrote and directed “The Secret Agent.” This sequence takes place in 1977 and it comes fairly late within the movie. I sort of knew it will be an vital sequence for “The Secret Agent,” as a result of that is the place we lastly get to spend a while with the people who find themselves staying at Sebastiana’s constructing, and it will at all times be a difficult sequence from the standpoint of writing and likewise of capturing. So we’ve got Isabél Zuaa taking part in Tereza Victória. Now we have Licínio Januário, who performs her husband. Hermila Guedes performs Claudia. João Vitor Silva performs Haroldo. Tânia Maria, in fact, who’s taking part in Dona Sebastiana. Now we have Lula Terra and likewise Gal, who’s asleep, and we’ve got Robson, who performs Clóvis. The entire sequence was extremely difficult as a result of we had one evening. It is a evening shoot. We shot from 7 p.m. till 4:30 a.m. and my largest concern was that I wouldn’t have the ability to do justice to every character and to honor them, as a result of I like every one in all these characters. And likewise these actors. And with two cameras, anamorphic Panavision lenses, three mics, about 30 crew, three canines, a cat. We had quite a bit to get performed, not solely by way of the photographs, but in addition dramatically as a result of the sequence begins very mild hearted after which it strikes in direction of a change within the ambiance within the room. However the entire sequence, I feel, works due to the nice performing and likewise due to various affection that comes by within the textual content. Wagner’s character, he takes a “why not, what the hell” angle in direction of hiding his identify. He simply reveals who he’s and that has an impact on his pals. Licínio at all times very skeptical as Antonio, Tereza Victória’s husband within the movie. They’re from Angola. And slowly we deliver new layers of which means by way of what it means to be getting by in an authoritarian regime, in a state of affairs the place you’re below risk. [TELEPHONE RINGING] The phone, the way in which it rings, we blended it a bit of louder than it will most likely sound. Nadia Comaneci, the nice Romanian gymnast, is within the background there with Wagner. And that is when Sebastiana really reveals how a lot she cares for these individuals. She truly says, I don’t need you to really feel unhappy. Let me present you my little museum. And this second, I feel, it actually opens up a brand new window into the movie as a result of we now notice that Sebastiana herself, she has a historical past in a foreign country, and he or she has gone by quite a bit in life, very similar to everyone else within the movie and very similar to all these characters. I by no means actually needed to do that sequence handheld. I at all times thought that it must be precisely the way in which it seems: very exact photographs, effectively composed. I actually needed the actors and the characters to dwell inside the body with none further power coming from the digital camera itself and the Panavision facet ratio, actually, I feel it’s wonderful to get individuals into the body. And Gal, little Gal, she was imagined to have a number of strains within the movie, however she was so sleepy and I believed, let’s simply let her sleep. After which sooner or later I requested Evgenia, let’s get a number of photographs of her truly sleeping. And positive sufficient, once we had been enhancing the sequence, we had a take a look at her sleeping, and I feel it’s a good looking strategy to finish the sequence. She’s truly sleeping and perhaps dreaming of a greater Brazil.
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