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The Making of ‘Nickel Boys’: How a Pulitzer-Winning Novel Became a Radical, Harrowing Film

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69% Informative

Ethan Herisse , Brandon Wilson , Hamish Linklater and Fred Hechinger star in the film.

Director RaMell Ross shot the film entirely from the two boys’ perspectives.

Ross : "The whole thing is an experiment. There are big ideas in there, and when big ideas fail, it hurts".

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor : "I want people to get what I got when I read it, when I saw Hale County" Ethan Herisse : "It was like they’d known each other forever" Ross : "This is nothing without these guys. That we found them essentially saves the film".

The film is conceived as all one -ers.

The challenging part was nailing the movement of the camera to feign what it would be like for a person to look, but not to overemphasize the concept of looking.

Ethan Wilson : "It felt physically restrictive. I didn’t realize until I was allowed to move".

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60

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52

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55

Article tone

informal

Language

English

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23

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possibly offensive

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medium-lived

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