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Production designer9/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Keira Knightley and Joe Wright on the set of “Pride & Prejudice” Focus Features/courtesy Everett Collection His first feature film, the 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice,” is a perfect example. Often the very idea driving Wright’s fresh adaptations of familiar material - ranging from Tolstoy (“Anna Karenina”) to Winston Churchill during the Great War (“The Darkest Hour”) - is wrapped up in his sense of space. From the very outset they’re thinking about not only the look of the film, but the sort of philosophical aspects of it and how they connect with the design, the colors, the locations - all those things crystallize in Joe and Sarah and Katie’s early discussions.” “It was one of the first times that I’d ever encountered such a solid creative team around a director in terms of design,” said frequent collaborator, cinematographer Seamus McGarvey, recalling the first time he worked with the trio on “Atonement.” “Sarah and Katie are very much Joe’s righthand people. The very backbone of the 49-year-old director’s career is his 23-year collaboration with production designer Sarah Greenwood, and their indispensable set dresser Katie Spencer. But for Wright, the spatial containers of his films are often not only the entry point through which he sees character and story, but also performance, movement, composition, sound, and music. It is not uncommon for a film director to conceive story in images, for which setting can be a foundational component. The space plays a role in how the drama will play out - it can end in disaster and comedy, or it can feed the romance of the moment, and accentuate it.” ![]() When you arrive in the gardens, or maybe it’s a restaurant, with an idea of what it’s going to be like, something about the space completely throws you. “Okay, say you’re going to meet your wife, no, your girlfriend, and you intend to propose to her,” Wright paused as he took a drag from his cigarette, thinking through the scenario. Perched on the window of his New York hotel room, he tried to elucidate his point with an impromptu scenario. “Drama occurs between people in relation to each other, and in relation to the space in which they find themselves. Joe Wright is a director who not only sees but conceives his films through their setting and a sense of space.
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