Written by Knut LoeweAfter I had received the first script of episode one of Griselda, still in Berlin at the time and stuck within COVID restrictions, I started to research movies, TV shows, and period photographs that depict 1970s Miami and Florida. Soon, I realized that there was a lot of what I would call Pink Flamingo-style. I wanted to find another element that would give the audience a “Florida Feeling” that did not use the typical color branding that we have seen many times before. New York has the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building, Berlin has a Brandenburg Gate, and Paris has the Eiffel Tower, but how would we recognize Miami? To me, it would be the Inner Coastal Waterway and the amount of green in Florida, parts of Miami, such as Coral Gables, Coconut Grove, or Kendall, feel like a jungle, they are so green. Palm Beach Mansion - 'Griselda'NetflixIn my very first meeting with director Andres Baiz and Producer Eric Newman, they, of course, wanted to know how I would envision the world this story is set in. I explained to them that if I had to direct the first episode or the series as a whole, I would want a background that does not look like the Florida and the Miami that we had seen so many times, that I would want to minimize the use of pink that I would want to go further back in time and bring in 1950s MCM and 1930s...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 28 May, 2024