""I know that sounds insane," Linklater says, "but me not having the language wasn't even in my top 10 concerns about if I could pull off the movie." Linklater says he'd speak English on the set and rehearse in English, which meant that the cast and crew understood about "80 plus percent of what I [was] saying." The result, he says, is a film that emphasizes the visual."
"Godard's Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) broke many filmmaking conventions. The handheld camera allowed Godard to film in the streets of Paris, with unsuspecting pedestrians as extras. The film didn't have a script Godard would occasionally feed lines to his actors, and other dialogue was later recorded and synced to the visuals. The scenes were unrehearsed, spontaneous, and didn't follow a production schedule."
""What we're watching in the film is this kind of revolutionary moment, but I think only one guy knows it," Linklater says of Godard. "He's kind of flummoxing everybody around him of what he's doing, because he believes if you're going to do something different, you have to do it differently. ... He created this unique environment where that could happen.""
Richard Linklater does not speak French but directed Nouvelle Vague, a film almost entirely in French that centers on the origins of the French New Wave and Jean-Luc Godard's 1960 Breathless. Linklater rehearsed and communicated on set in English, so cast and crew understood much of his direction, resulting in a production that prioritizes visual storytelling. Breathless broke filmmaking conventions through handheld street shooting, use of unsuspecting pedestrians, lack of a full script, improvised or fed lines, post-recorded dialogue, and unrehearsed, spontaneous scenes without a fixed schedule. Linklater also released Blue Moon about lyricist Lorenz Hart and his partnership with Richard Rodgers.
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