CATS (2019) DirCom
The Worst Idea Of All Time
Tim Batt
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Join this special Director's Commentary with SIR Andrew Lloyd Webber and visionary director Tom Hooper. There is simply so much to unpack from this cultural juggernaut bringing together to twin infallible (and ineffable?) worlds of confusing musicals and CGI-heavy film-making. Hold on to your Jellicle butts because we're going up, up, up to the Heaviside Layer. Together.
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| 0:00.0 | Jé Life-cha, Jé Life, sayICE Jé Love-cha |
| 0:09.5 | please begin your copy of summarised 가소리 3 2 1 now |
| 0:18.6 | Hello everybody, welcome to this director's commentary special presentation |
| 0:23.2 | A format which for some of our listeners will not even make sense, back in the day there used to be these things called DVDs |
| 0:32.2 | and on those DVDs sometimes you would find a talkalong to the movie which was conducted by the director and maybe some other key members of the cast and crew |
| 0:46.2 | in this case for Cats 2019 you are joined by myself. Sir, Andrew Lloyd Webber and there's a lot of commotion going on here in the voicing booth as I'm joined by director, visionary, filmmaker extraordinaire Tom Hooper. |
| 1:06.2 | Well, I thank you so much, Andrew and it's a delight to be revisiting my greatest accomplishment. 2019's Blockbuster Smash hit. |
| 1:19.2 | Cats based on your own musical which in turn was based on the poems of T.S. Eliot. |
| 1:25.2 | We got this beautiful opening shot here which is a showcase of what we really brought to the vision of CGI plus real shit plus confusing scale of cats. |
| 1:37.2 | That was the first thing we wanted to emphasize is what size is anything in this world and I think we achieved that sometimes the cats are big, sometimes the cats are small. |
| 1:48.2 | The important thing is that we downloaded the cheapest sort of audio or musical creation software available to play this music line through. |
| 1:59.2 | Yes, I had a music supervisor role on this and I didn't actually think this would make it in the final cut. |
| 2:06.2 | We were using a trial edition of the synth pack that someone had got off lime wire and it sounded wretched. |
| 2:13.2 | But I thought it would be quite funny to just say, yeah, yeah, no, it's great. |
| 2:16.2 | And then it wound up in the damn picture, didn't it? |
| 2:18.2 | What we wanted to do, Andrew, was bury the lead. |
| 2:20.2 | We knew we had a fantastic movie on our hands and to distract from that we wanted to start the movie, you know, wrong footing the audience. |
| 2:28.2 | We don't know what size the cats are, we don't know the quality of the music. |
| 2:33.2 | I will say this, it doesn't matter what you do to my music. |
| 2:39.2 | It's still fucking slaps. |
| 2:42.2 | You can play it through a dog shit, cast your tone, it doesn't matter, a tune is a tune. |
| 2:48.2 | Wow, that was, and we'll get to this, but obviously we're of course meeting the iconic grizzabella. |
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