FOE Movie - Making Of - Amazon Studios - Go behind the scenes of FOE with director Garth Davis, Paul Mescal, Saoirse Ronan, Aaron Pierre and producers. Now available to own on digital.
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00:00 - Do you feel happy here?
00:03 - Of course I'm happy here.
00:04 Aren't you?
00:07 Someone's here.
00:08 - When was the last time we had a visitor?
00:11 - "Foe" is a really interesting one
00:12 because there's so many different stories
00:14 that are happening at the same time.
00:15 There's the story that we think that's happening,
00:17 and then there's the story that's really happening.
00:19 Therein lies what's very exciting
00:21 from a directorial point of view.
00:23 - At the core of it is a marriage in crisis,
00:26 but you've got this element
00:28 that we are always, as an audience,
00:30 slightly behind the characters.
00:31 - I need to have an intimate understanding
00:33 of your marriage, the good and the bad.
00:37 It's between you and me.
00:39 - What myself and Garth were interested in
00:41 is this story for all of its kind of moving parts.
00:44 As Junior and Hen's relationship grows
00:46 and she begins to feel secure,
00:48 you then have another twist in the tale
00:49 that destroys all of that.
00:51 - I think they were kind of the architectural elements
00:53 of the writing and the excitement of what we had ahead of us.
00:56 - There's all these wonderful metaphors in the story,
00:59 how the decaying marriage reflects the decaying planet,
01:02 and these really philosophical questions
01:03 sit in the fabric of the storytelling.
01:06 - Garth is very curious in the best way,
01:08 and I think that's exactly who you need
01:11 to be telling this story.
01:12 - Just concentrating on these three performances
01:15 was exciting because Garth has such a connection
01:19 to the characters and the stories that he's telling.
01:22 - I was very drawn to how he shows families
01:26 and relationships and love between couples.
01:30 It's a feeling, and when you have it, it is exhilarating.
01:34 - Patrice and Garth really explored
01:38 what a realistic future would look like.
01:41 There's old and there's new.
01:42 This film represents a fifth-generation farmhouse,
01:45 but then it has the big chicken factories
01:48 and has the drones, and it shows bits
01:50 of what the future will look like.
01:52 - It needed to be relatable.
01:55 We had to really think around how we designed the sets,
01:59 how much technology we saw.
02:01 - Garth's idea is to make the audience believe
02:03 in the incredible aspect of the story.
02:05 You need to ground everything in a reality
02:08 and not try to over-design it.
02:11 - You really have to feel the ghost of the room.
02:13 You almost have to feel that the house
02:15 has been lived in over time.
02:17 - The house stays anchored in a certain past,
02:20 and only the futuristic elements come from talents
02:24 who brings changes to their lives.
02:27 - You're going to the installation.
02:28 - I don't know, listen to me.
02:29 I don't like how you just show up here.
02:31 - I think Matt Dias was so wonderful at working with Garth
02:35 in finding the camera in the room and finding who to follow
02:38 so that we can really explore the characters
02:40 to make sure that we're getting both of their journeys.
02:44 - Garth is extremely precise about what he wants
02:47 in terms of composition, lens size, camera movement,
02:50 even light.
02:52 He knows what the film needs,
02:53 and that kind of feeling within the house
02:55 very much has his directorial style all over it.
02:58 - Whatever we decide, let's decide together, okay?
03:02 (dramatic music)
03:05 (whooshing)