Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. The following conversation was recorded before a live audience

is part of my film independent and lack of a screening series. There I spoke to J.C. Chandor and Oscar Isaac about their new film, a most violent year.

Here's the conversation.

So, you do more running in this movie. What kind of shape were you in before you started shooting for God's sake?

Not very good shape.

That's why I had that face plant in the middle of the whole thing.

Yeah, it said that in the script that you were out of shape.

I mean, because I didn't know what's worse,

watch you run into the snow after the assailant with no shoes on

or taking that fall during the run. I mean,

that was pretty painful to watch. It was painful to experience. I want to ask you about your

first conversation, Uncle J.C., because his movies have all been about pride and these guys who were

like too proud for their own good. And I don't know what your first conversation was about the

character with

them.

Well, yeah, I think our, the very first conversation we really had about it is when you took

me out in Williamsburg and drove me over to these tankers that were right on the water.

Where we ended up shooting the final scene?

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Or the water. Where we ended up shooting the final scene?

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Or the second to last scene.

And so the first conversations were actually less about what was happening emotionally and more about the landscape and showing me what the vision is, literally the vision.

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