To me, it’s such a sophisticated exquisite use of voiceover.” There are keys being struck, and the idea that she’s writing an email to AJ that she will never send about her fear and that this won’t work out and her frustration that she had that they have, this love, just might not be practical. And what I loved about what Gabrielle did for that montage is its storytelling. “In the middle one, it’s our second journey with Amelia Island books.

“One of the things that’s kind of unique to movies is obviously editing and the cut and to be able to tell the story with montage, but we have this travel montage where you see someone coming to Island three times: the beginning, middle and end of the script,” Canosa said. Amelia’s favorite book, “The Late Bloomer,” becomes a symbol for AJ once he breaks his stubborn streak of refusing to read memoirs. “It has this sort of structure that has to do with something that you can do more in movies, which is play with point of view in a more profound way.”Īmelia (Lucy Hale) completes the puzzle for AJ, who, after a brusque first encounter with her, falls in love with the agent for Knightley press after she consistently visits him, and they bond over books. “If you look at the structure of it, all of the major characters have time in the story in which they tell the story, so it ends up being more about the ways in which this man’s life are formed from the stories people tell about his life,“ Zevin said. “It has a very sort of pure storytelling construction.” “This one felt a little bit easier because so much of it is about storytelling, and about the structure of stories itself, so I think knowing that, it kind of easily worked into a three-act structure despite the fact that it takes place over time,” Zevin said. Zevin, whose first trip to theaters post-COVID was for this film, adapted the screenplay and produced the film, with her partner and frequent collaborator Hans Canosa directing. 7, with visual effects taking up until release to complete. I was involved in every part of it: development, production and post production.”įilming began in November 2021, and the film landed in select theaters Oct. “So in a sense, I wasn’t like that author walking onto the set and everything’s built. Look at my world brought to life’ and I think that’s because I was so granularly involved in every part of it,” she said. I don’t know if I’m broken inside, but I don’t have that feeling of, ‘Oh, wow. “As soon as I’m done with a book, it’s dead to me. How ‘Luckiest Girl Alive’ Stars Mila Kunis and Chiara Aurelia Played 3 Versions of the Same CharacterĪs for how she feels about this particular book to screen adaptation and its release into theaters (and more broadly the world), she has mastered the psychological separation of book and film.

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