One from the Heart

Um-

And to me, Joker II was a more interesting, uh, layers of pastiche because it's like, it's doing some golden age musical stuff, but it's also One From the Heart, which is the Francis Ford Coppola-

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... which was a huge hit, but is a, is a real stinker.

Uh, One From the Heart is a very interesting Francis Ford Coppola-

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... movie.

I believe you.

caitlyn diaz was cast as riley she was touching and heartbreakingly honest um i'm gonna be honest as i was writing things about the animation the design and cinematography a lot of this stuff was difficult to follow but i'm gonna try and do my best to uh summarize this uh ralph eggleston outlined the mind and the real worlds of this film and the mind world incorporates a lot of soft surfaces saturated colors contrasting light and translucency um The world had resemblance to Up, Toy Story 3, One from the Heart from 1982, David Hockney's theatrical productions in the 1950s Broadway musicals.

They used a lot of freeform surface modeling to emphasize design aspects, and they had over 300 designs of headquarters developed.

The filmmakers really concentrated on the word electrochemical for the mind's interior.

That started my path.

And so I worked at Zoetrope for a while when Francis bought the studios in Los Angeles, Hollywood General, to do one from the heart.

He asked me if I would, quote, run the camera department, whatever that meant.

And, but it was fun.

And he said to me, so he ended up showing up on this.

And when I think back on this, it's like, it all seems so crazy.

But One From the Heart was pretty insane production.

And in the middle of it, I remember one day, Sean Luke Goddard showed up with a Super 8 camera and, You know, he had a cigar coming out of one end of his mouth, the camera up to the end of his microphone sticking out the top of the camera.

And I wish I could see, I wish I could remember the film that I, I, I saw her in.

Well, she was in One from the Heart, but she was also in Amazing Stories, so I don't know if it-

Oh, probably One from the Heart.

Okay.

Yeah, One from the Heart.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It almost came to fruition in the 1980s.

And then he hit a little hiccup because another passion project of his, the musical that everyone loves, One from the Heart, which is, I don't know, I think people shit on it too much, but critics hated it when it came out.

And it ended up bankrupting his production company.

And it's also interesting, as a foil to Coppola and his genius, you've got George Lucas, who appears in the documentary about Megalopolis.