Wes and the creative team behind 'The French Dispatch' describe how they brought his colourful, fast-paced new movie to life.
, so [Wes and I] sat at the piano and decided how we might start. We started with pure piano. We tried to put together an instrumentarium that felt unpredictable; a combination of sounds that don’t make sense on paper: the harpsichord, the tuba, the bassoon, the recorders… things that are not meant to be played together. We wanted to mirror what was on screen. : The song that’s in the film, “Aline”, is one of Wes’s favourite French songs, but in fact I’d never heard it before he played it to me.
. We made two commercials, one that I thought was good, which was with “Aline”, and another one to try to satisfy all their needs. But the one with “Aline”, they discarded it completely, and they never aired it or showed it in Japan. Then the other one, they wrote me that it was their worst received commercial. Even though it starred Brad Pitt, it had the lowest rank of recognisability, of people realising it had Brad Pitt in it. They couldn’t tell it was him, which was not very good at all.
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