Daniel Day-Lewis - 'The Age Of Innocence' Documentary Part 1 

Amazing! Pl tell us what scene/timestamp/costume and any inside tidbits you have from your experience!

@@JL-qz1lr yes!! Although that comment is from 9 years ago. 😟

My family were all extras in the movie Jaws, but after going through the movie frame by frame, we couldn’t find ourselves. Apparently we’re on a cutting room floor. They paid each person $65.00 foot the day but my mother took the money and CLAIMED she was gonna put it into the bank for us. I still don’t know whether I believe her or not.

@@JL-qz1lr I received $65 a day, plus 3 meals. 3 days of shooting. The scene I am in is in the first 10 minutes of the movie. I was wearing an 1880s tuxedo. They provided all wardrobe (there were 700 extras). If you are familiar with the movie, there is a scene in the Opera House (which was filmed at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia) when someone stands up from the private box across the way from the 3 stars. An usher in a George Washington Wig puts a cloak on the person. Then the camera pans to the audience and I am in the first seat of the second row. Black hair and black beard. The elevators weren't working in the building, and I was sitting on the stairs between scenes when DD Lewis, Wynona Ryder and Michelle Pfeiffer came down the stairs and walked right past me. Pretty exciting. But movie making is a boring business. In 3 full days of shooting they got about 8 minutes of film.

that's amazing! 🌟

And 30 years later , it still does!!!

I appreciate in spite of myself.

...but WHAT are you fighting to save ~ a hollow marriage a hollow victory... Who wants to be 2nd best ... the one he settled for ?

xocalatier , a number of people believe that May's character was actually Sly and controlling while pretending to be so ladylike and innocent .

i share the same enthusiasm with you

I liked the messy beard

Patrick3183 now 2016

now 2017

Patrick3183 now 2019

Now 2020

2021..Hi everyone

We must have watched different films. May wanted Newland to fit into her tight little world, and Olenska wanted to be free. He says himself that he's more himself with her. Or words to that effect.

May cared for others' feelings and would sacrifice her own happiness if it meant it would cause harm. Ellen wanted to be free and enjoy the arts and saw the same with Newland but they were both handcuffed by their upbringing and the rules of their elite class.

@@zackclarke2895 I guess both you and I watched the same film

Michelle Roberts Me three, along with you and Zac this is the film I watched and loved based faithfully on a book I also loved.

That's what I thought the first time I saw this. But then I matured and re-watched it and realized how excellent it was. You have to be mature and wise to be in a position to appreciate this kind of a film.

SuperBat I agree, and I liked the book. Scorsese spent way too much time twirling his camera over and around the sets and the furniture and the dishes and the clothes (and chose to change the story's timeline from the early 1870s to the later part of the decade, judging from the fashions), and had the actors speak in an overly-cautious, stilted tone. I'm old enough to remember relatives who were born in the 1890s and, besides a few expressions, they mostly talked like we do today. Why they had each actor labor over every word and speak in slow motion is absurd (and not a mark of class, now or then) but it's a common error in most period films--and most likely added to you boredom. I know it did mine.

I feel the exact same way! I was in high school when I saw this movie at its first release at the theatre and it was a 10pm showing. I fell asleep, only to wake up to the credits! I so much appreciate it now. Such an exquisite work of art and fantastic actors!

Well it was called the Ages and Ages of innocence at the time and if it’s not your thing then it’s not. If you gave it another chance now, as the other posters have suggested you might like it. As an older person I found it a visual, sumptuous delight. I think the actors and director may have chosen that speech pattern to demonstrate how they all had to watch what they said all of the time. I thought it was a brilliant way to show how narrow and repressed the society was. Also all three of the main characters had something to hide, even May had her duplicitous behaviour to conceal. It’s also held up remarkably well.