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this movie was it came from a very successful play

that

those brought and i have independent me see the lump

both.

Loved and we'd love to for pharmacist the waste so friend.

This is a great fight

so so what.

How can we not ruin the play but make it to the match

you know

what we know the story we all knew the story

so what new what nuke new things could happen what could Hoffman

and then

lots of new things

and i

thought it was really interesting enough thought it said a lot about.

It never talk down to us because we're so

it always stayed at a

at a level that you bought the

movie making to stay at all of a play to stay at you know it was

it was thrilling and was a boxing match without

anybody ever putting on the gloves it was.

You know.

That a consistently stay tough

i thought

what was really interesting

just

from a musical pint of us

that

neither off the characters are particularly likable in fact that not likeable that

toilet if i ever make them likable

which is such a tendency

you know we we all have we all have that tendency but trying to.

Trying to make things

you know a little bit more likable a little bit much you may not a little bit both

and pathetic.

Then sometimes they deserve and

pizza just

you know it has writing just went for he didn't do that

he just

maintained

that sort of.

Colds detail touched

here tests.

The

white house counsel testify today that president Nixon knew about the Watergate.

I'd actually it's interesting for me to watch the

opening of the movie again because

you know

yesterday we were talking about the suites

that i write

that stuff my diary of you know every day writing

a little bit further

by

a statement character

president

with easily outrage.

Up until you actually get to

the actor playing which next

it's all just the original sweet

just laid up against it

and it wasn't time

the editor

cup to it

but it gives you the right

mode it gives you the right propulsion

suddenly for Veronica

gave him the right fearing for for the way she wanted to tell the story.

All the

as

mate or whole

bunch of synthesizers and been cellos

so the whole school that that was the lineup for the school.

So it starts a bit crooked or

with a good riff

and it's just the variations on that ref all the way through

the that became.

Of gold

class materials.

And i i never knew i was writing the opening to the film.

White house.

Today

that the president by the pool house.

I thought we should we we we should have a breathless quality about the whole thing.

Pepper was

offered.

The year.

I think there should be a

sense of panic for all the characters everything is at stake for them you know

i'm

Richard Nixon.

He's going to lose the country's going to lose

the presidency he's going to be found out.

Fifteen seconds mr president.

And.

For David frost

things weren't going so well this this was the this was a huge gamble

life wasn't

you know

he he

he was i think he was pretending but life was a lot better than was

that his jobs but a lot better than they were

mean i think at that moment in time he was during a game show in Australia

and

so.

Face you wanted to have the sentence of these two.

Rather odd adversaries

Nietzsche

and you wanted to have a sense that

you wanted to if a sense it will be held swelled that we were talking about things

which i.

The events had taken place not all the events in

as depicted in the movie have taken place but the you know

the the the big historical shift that

you know that really have taken place

and the one thing i didn't want to tourists i didn't wanted to be sort of.

History

big history notes you know big sur strings big bra spic you know

that

there's a

way of scoring movies such as like two ways of going movies

either one as fate objects

for instance.

Star was just very objective your starts off with the

bomb

you know the big fan for i'm not going to sing it and get.

John Williams to buy my house don't

i

am not

sing at you all know how star wars

ghosts but it's it's a big orchestra was a big sound

and it's sort of

it nearly looks down on the axe.

While this is sort of like inside and it's a bit

crooked as a bit broken it's a bit like

it's it's very low tech and of you know

typewriters and.

Bad pianos and

things which i

just

suck suck so it's it's

it's more the mystery of the characters are feeling and

the

the slight.

Everything is too fast.

Front of the things you can do of costs.

Cinema which come to in a place you can do the closer.

So all these sort of.

Things for which

which were talking about is.

That

for instance

if a close up i can go

and musically.

Sort of hint at what the character as thinking of the subtext of us

and we started to get really excited

and then some of these coast

to caves of.

If you just did this one's close up in slow motion just just crank to the bet

you know all sorts of interesting by them as what start happening.

So.

We're coming back on camera three and four

three

two and.

I love doing this movie step i make the

audience to lean forward a little bit you know

just just.

Leads you

closer to the characters suck so you know

the those those were some of the things that

you no.

Run and i were talking about and then you

know those shots were come back and i would up

okay now i gotta figure out a quick clever way of

making you lean that.

If the American people though.

Always knew that

was supposed

to be.

You know the the loudest silence you have a hot

we saw

how people would watch the season there'll be wanted them to hold their breath and if

you're hurt people breathing and but

cinema

you know

we knew we had failed.

Political life for over.

Because part of it as

how

the first of all

the writing is really good peaches writing is pretty good

performance is a really good

and sometimes

just letting the

actress hang in silence was

you know was.

Very powerful

Europe to to keep the edge

growing

to not soft on anything

was.

Great to check the music out

I'll just dumped to do music except but.

You know the the first and greatest sin

or deception of television is that it simplifies.

It diminishes

great complex.

This is actually the peace the

you know when i wrote it and i played it.

It was.

Like i could not

make it not sound.

Romantic and sympathetic and empathetic towards the character.

It's just not in my fingers to play

cold and so a friend of mine had to go to be played complete guide precisely

or cold.

All the piano studying all the time has just throwing on question

every note as a

question

i

just took that out that would be you know and energy a beautiful energy

left

it's just want to color.

If i took the piano down and you to

him off the strings.

You're automatically tired to help

especially you know he's he's got the sad eyes

you know you you know that thing was the dog.

Getting into the cost slowly all everything

everything everything everything in the way it's shot.

You know lets you.

Basically set up a perfect.

For the composer to go and paw.

Frequently sugary empathy over the whole thing.

That happens

the game us lost.

A Mexican director of such be

just as a very good description she said

she wanted a piece of music

like a beautiful cake

with a knife for that.

Get up and

this is a beautiful cake

with a knife in it.

The notes themselves up.

Awkward a little classy a little.

The symptom you've got to

for buff like.

Quality tried

and.

And it's it's just

it's it's really more that the notes of

fighting each other

than

about supporting each other

and at the same time i bay gently try to

put in the idea.

Of tragedy but not tragedy for Richard Nixon about the tragedy of

you know

our

the people's betrayal by

you know by by by a system we believed and by politics by

whatever that is

you know the

you know

that the American dream sort of.

Gone wrong.

We had a the modest budget

and

but

when those conversations first started out

by going to be all eat enough bike

song licensing

and then.

It's sort of turned out we didn't need all those songs

are the we found

we found a

different way of telling it.

But

it it

was just fun.

You know rushing with and of you know

for very limited means

and i you know you never noticed that.

Yeah that that's like a

like a shot in the movie.

Which i

i sort of a door which as.

It's.

David frost office building.

I'm looking at it when

or sun comes back and i'm i'm suddenly realize

oh it's the production office somebody just

painted a big seventy five onto it quickly you know so

we we went wasteful

and

it's very important to always be in a position where you have to go and make

something because your you know your

fervently believe and that this movie now needs to be made as opposed to

thinking it's going to be a box office success

you know

Peter Morgan

had given us a script

that.

Seduced us enabled us

was a gift to us to go and and

and

do something we hadn't done before

and and

to try to work really well and and and and tried to be as good as his once.

So

i.

You know

that that's the stuff that makes you get up in the morning.