One of the things I’ve been most jealous of since reading the script is Daniel Waters’s hilarious dialogue! Man, I wish I’d written some of that. When you guys actually get snippets of scenes and the characters talking, you’re going to love it. It’s so funny at times…and so serious and poignant at the others. He’s a master.
But
on to your actual question about visuals.
I LOVE what they did. There are
so many things that they just took and made visually bigger and better than my
initial imaginings. I can envision a lot
of things, but my main focus when writing a book is character, dialogue, and
emotion. And I can get away with
describing my settings in minimal detail because you, my readers, do some of
the work for me with your imaginations.
But the set designers have to take care of every detail. They don’t have the same outs that I have. Fortunately, visuals are their specialty.
Whatever I can imagine, they imagine a hundred times more. One of the most stunning sets in the whole
movie is the chapel attic. What’s
especially amazing about it is that they actually built it. Some scenes, like the classrooms, were filmed
on location in real places. But they made
the chapel from scratch, and it’s breathtaking.
When you put Lissa and Christian into that for their first meeting…well,
I can’t even describe how powerful that is.
+(Read more from our exclusive interview underneath!)
