Chloe Zhao is one of the most thoughtful directors. She really puts a lot of care into her shots and into her characters. I was so excited to see the trailer for her new film, Hamnet, which looks like a return to form. - YouTube www.youtube.com Previously, she spent some time in the Marvel world after an indie film, where she had a lot of money to make an Eternals movie that just didn't hit with critics and fans. As she looks back on that experience while opening her new film, I thought she had some really poignant words to share. In a new Vanity Fair interview, Zhao said, "Eternals prepared me for Hamnet because it’s world-building,” Zhao told the publication. “Before that, I had only done films that existed in the real world. I also learned what to do and not to do—what’s realistic and what isn’t. Eternals had, like, an unlimited amount of money and resources. And here we have one street corner that we can afford to [stand in for] Stratford…. Eternals didn’t have a lot of limitations, and that is actually quite dangerous. Because we only have that street corner [in Hamnet], suddenly everything has meaning."Now, I think this is relevant for our readers because I'd guess that most of us are making things that have limitations. We often see those things as holding us back, but they can actually make us more creative. We have to solve problems and even put more thought into shots...
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