In an interview with Digital Trends, Billy Fox talks about editing Devotion's thrilling aerial action scenes and finding the heartbeat of the film.
2022 saw the release of a thrilling, long-awaited movie that combined nostalgia, bromance, and amazing action sequences involving aerial combat. No, we’re not talking about Top Gun: Maverick — we’re talking about Devotion, J.D. Dillard’s gripping movie about the real-life heroics of Jesse Brown, the first African American to complete the U.S. Navy’s basic flight training program.
Billy Fox: Well, one of the things I did in working on Devotion was that I tapped into a lot of the things that I haven’t used in a while since I worked on Band of Brothers. While this movie follows two main characters, Jesse [played by Lovecraft Country star Jonathan Majors] and Tom [Hudner, played by Glen Powell], it’s also about a whole group of pilots, wives, and Navy personnel. I had to make sure that all of them felt alive.
Each scene has its own technique and its own rhythms. Certainly in an action sequence, things are much tighter. But when you’re dealing with a dramatic scene involving someone like Jonathan Majors, it’s different. Jonathan brings so much when he’s on camera that the lines that he says are almost not as important as the moments between the lines, because he just gives so much emotion in his face, in his pores, in his physical position, and in certain things that he does.
But it’s also a devotion to Daisy and his family. And as the film progresses, you realize that Daisy’s the one that pulls it all together. She’s the glue.The river run when the meg is chasing Jesse and Tom is going down an alternate canyon and they came together to take the meg out. That was difficult. I had a good cut, but when JD [the director] came in the room, he had shot things very specifically and he kind of tore apart what I had done and glued it back together.
One of the things that I think an editor does is find the close-ups, the wide shots, and helping the actors’ performances. That’s kind of like breathing. That’s like the automatic part.
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