Corwin actually wanted to make the cuts imperfect. He also added jump cuts of Mark from one position to another to show his jarring nature. That could mean putting the audience in Mark’s emotional point of view in a street scene, though occasionally cutting to fire trucks and crowds as Mark moves through the city talking on his cellphone. “He was explosive, so I cut him explosively,” he said. Corwin took his cues from the character’s deep anger. “I had to start understanding each of the character groupings emotionally before I was comfortable with what they were doing financially.”įor the hedge fund manager Mark Baum, played by Steve Carell, Mr.
“I don’t have a financial mind,” he said. Corwin has received his first nomination. Now, after having worked with several Oscar-nominated directors, Mr. Corwin and he was pleased by the level of freedom and openness Mr. “He came from an improv comedy background and I do everything but.” McKay, in a phone interview from Los Angeles. “I was bewildered that he’d want me,” Mr.
To assemble these ideas into a cohesive whole, the director Adam McKay brought in the editor Hank Corwin, who had worked with Oliver Stone and Terrence Malick. Characters break the fourth wall and stock footage is mixed with more traditional scenes to tell the story of the housing collapse, a drama both tragic and darkly funny. Energetic in its pacing and rule-breaking in its style, “The Big Short” keeps viewers on their toes.