#Movies with a narrator movie#

“We used it when he’s talking about the boys and their potential for doing harm to the women.”ĭonaldson and Polley’s next challenge was establishing the first scene of the film.

“While it is no longer the first scene of the movie, it comes back much later in the film,” Donaldson says. The scene where August teaches the young boys walking along the fence was originally meant to open the film, but Donaldson and Polley pushed it back. The team also retooled the beginning of the movie.

#Movies with a narrator movie#

Says Donaldson, “When you’re putting the lines in, all of a sudden, the movie just came alive.” Since Donaldson and Polley needed Hallet’s voiceover, which wasn’t in the original cut, the actor was called to record her lines during the post-production process. She tells the story of “ Women Talking” to Ona’s (Rooney Mara’s) unborn child. So, it was there in the edit that Hallett’s character Autje, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Mariche (Jessie Buckley), became the primary narrator. It was a risky change, and Polley hadn’t yet completed her director’s cut when they decided to switch narrators. There was this feeling that the voice of August, which had been so central to the novel and easily transferable to the script, was the wrong prism through which to envision the film.”

“We saw the script as a template and emotional roadmap, but the script no longer worked for us, so we needed to create a new visual language and emotional logic.”ĭonaldson explains, “Ultimately, what we needed to do was take this script, and give it a completely different emotional tone and context. But in the editing room, the more he and Polley worked together, the more they began to re-envision the film. “The first 10 pages of the script are about August,” Donaldson tells Variety.