We recently had the chance to chat with Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Good Morning, Vietnam) about making the leap to horror with his found footage movie The Bay, now available on Blu-ray and DVD. Here's what he had to say about the movie:
IGN Movies: One of the things that struck me about this film was that it asks a lot of you to basically trust in your cast in a way that I don't think any other director probably quite has to this point. Can you talk about that challenge? Did you view it as an opportunity?
Barry Levinson: Well, as we've evolved in terms of life, everybody holds cameras nowadays. The mystery of the camera is pretty much over, and everybody videos. So you figure, they're gonna shoot as they shoot. They have a certain understanding of it, and part of the imperfection of it is actually good for the film. Sometimes, in some takes, there'd be a mistake and instead of hitting the "on" button, they did something where we literally didn't have something, on occasion. But for the most part, it served the purpose of the movie.
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