You know? “How old were you when you met Bronco Henry?” “About the age you are now.” Phil and Peter are really sensing each other out here. And you know, it’s interesting that these saddles, they have so many- all the spurs actually, kind of little romantic aspects inside the little silver heart and the actual spurs themselves. And then, he goes over to Bronco Henry’s saddle and begins to fiddle with that, which is actually a way of Peter subversively flirting with Phil, because anybody touching Bronco’s saddle, especially Peter, is probably eroticizing for Phil. And pulling back to Peter as he’s watching it. But this shot here was the one that made me really excited, like, just doing this move of focus pulls between Peter, the rope, Phil’s hands played in it at his crotch. And it’s also a scene where I added a lot, a lot of details during the filming of it and later. Here, we’re seeing the moment where the actual murder scene has been hinted at, when Phil’s wound pinks the water. Will you watch me finish the rope? It’s a kind of vulnerability that, actually, Phil shows towards him. And this is something Phil has actually asked him to do. The aim for me in directing the scene was to find a way to really build tension as Peter watches Phil finishing the rope. And so many different parts of the film that really have been seeded right from the very beginning coming together, like the completion of the rope with all its freighted meanings, the change of the relationship between Peter and Phil towards intimacy, and then the surprising power shift from Phil to Peter as Peter boldly holds out the cigarette to Phil’s lips, then to his own, and the laying out of the murder scene. It’s really a scene I love very much, because it’s a culmination of their relationship. It’s a scene that happens in the barn at night with Phil, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, and Peter, played by Kodi Smit-McPhee. I’m the screenwriter and director of ‘The Power of the Dog.’ This is the scene I call the love scene. Transcript ‘The Power of the Dog’ | Anatomy of a Scene The screenwriter and director Jane Campion narrates an intimate sequence between Benedict Cumberbatch and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
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