The Pale Blue Eye with Scott Cooper and David O. Russell (Ep. 401)

The Director’s Cut - A DGA Podcast

Directors Guild of America

Tv & Film

4.6 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Director Scott Cooper discusses his new film, The Pale Blue Eye, with fellow director David O. Russell in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, Cooper speaks about his belief in the importance of restraint in period movies, his collaboration with Christian Bale, and what helps the audience give themselves over to a film. The film brings us the story of a veteran detective who is hired to delve into the murder of a West Point cadet, but finds himself stalled by the cadets’ code of silence. In order to solve the mystery, he enlists the help of one of their own, a young Edgar Allen Poe. Please note: spoilers are included. See photos and a summary of this event below: https://www.dga.org/Events/2023/January2023/PaleBlueEye_QnA_1222.aspx

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0:00.0	You know, look, all of those period details should recede to the background.
0:04.6	This is all about characterization, all about location, all about serving the story.
0:32.5	All of the story. Hello and welcome back to the director's cut, brought to you by the Director's Guild of America.
0:41.2	In this episode, a world-weary detective investigates a murder and director Scott Cooper's Gothic mystery, The Pale Blue Eye.
0:48.1	The film brings us the story of a veteran detective who is hired to delve into the murder of a West Point cadet,
0:51.5	but finds himself stalled by the cadet's coat of silence.
0:58.0	In order to solve the mystery, he enlists the help of one of their own, a young Edgar Allan Poe.
1:05.2	In addition to the pale blue eye, Cooper's other directorial credits include the feature films, hostels,
1:08.2	Out of the Furnace, and Crazy Heart.
1:11.3	Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles,
1:14.1	Cooper spoke with director David O. Russell
1:16.2	about filming the pale blue eye.
1:18.9	Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.
1:25.8	So this picture is an incredible spell it casts.
1:30.0	It's just like a painting.
1:32.4	It's like a spell, like a witch's spell, which it becomes.
1:36.1	It's every character is singular and enchanting.
1:40.3	From this very weird period of the 1830s,
1:43.2	which is such a fantastic weird period that you capture the weird period of the 1830s, which is such a fantastic weird period
1:45.7	that you capture the weirdness of.
1:48.4	It's like pre-Civil War.
1:50.7	It's innocent, but it's sort of isolated
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