“I don’t see how we could have made the film now had we not shot in Chicago,” Aaron Sorkin said of TrialoftheChicago7
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRIALI knew very little. I had a vague sense that there had been some civil unrest in Chicago with the convention in ‘68. I had a vague sense that Abbie Hoffman was a leader in the counterculture movement in the ‘60s. All I knew about Tom Hayden was that he’d been married to Jane Fonda for a little while, and that was it. I had a lot of learning to do.
I had also done some of studying American history and just knowing a little bit about the names Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin and Tom Hayden, of course and knowing a little bit more about his political involvement in California. I do remember having a sense, even at that age, that something was very wrong, because of the images on TV and the National Guard. I remember thinking it was very dangerous.
Every scene that takes place in the park is about trying to get out of the park. We needed that to be laid out and we needed to be able to see the four sides of the park. The actual event had 10000 people, and we had 250 people. I told my camera operators to get into the crowd and pretend you’re making a documentary. Luckily there was tear gas and we could mask a lot of things with smoke.
The archival footage came in later. It was not planned. Even though we shot in the original location, we didn’t know that we would use it because it wasn’t in the script per se. There was specific archival footage in the opening and that’s where it existed in the script.
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