It just felt like the appropriate means to describe that moment.
Interestingly, Garland admitted he messed around with the moment in editing and changed it.
It was written as a single captured image…one perfect bit of photography.
Lee (Kirsten Dunst), Joel (Wagner Moura), and Jessie (Cailee Spaeny) in Civil War.Image: A24
But actually, in the edit, the sequence contained slightly more power.
So, I went with that instead.
Dont let them kill me, he says.
Nick Offerman as the PresidentImage: A24
Then they do anyway.
Jessie is there to capture the image.
So its taking its grammar, often, from lived experience or news photography or news footage or documentaries.
Nick Offerman as the PresidentImage: A24
That is its sort of framework.
It literally actually occurs exactly in the form you see it.
So a strange, disturbing last sort of hit of reality as the film ends.
Civil War is now in theaters.
Correction 4/12/24 7:30 p.m.: We had the Presidents quote wrong in the original version, its been edited.
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