Anyone who thinks that is too much time doesn't understand the lengths these two men went and how many hours and how much work they actually did put in to escape. This is a limited series that spans about 7-1/2 hours, 5 of them are focused on what it actually took to escape from a high security prison. This is the story of the 2015 jailbreak from the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora New York by two murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat. Ben Stiller is a wonderful director and he made sure to be as true to the material as he could be. This whole project is an example of taking an intriguing and thrilling story and doing it right from the start. There is a certain amount of guess work not to mention acting and actors involved. True stories are hard to fictionalize because they are true but at the same time you aren't writing a documentary. Looking forward to the next episodes and of course a thrilling series finale! My favourite moment so far is Benicio Del Toro's ferocious guttural warning to Patricia Arquette's character in Ep 3 - DON'T TELL ANYBOOOOODDDYYYYYY. Props for giving this an honest treatment, choosing great filmmaking locations (shots of Dannemora, the prison, Malone, Plattsburgh, even the manhole that the prisoners escaped to, are all the actual locations) and the use of music adds a really nice touch to this prison break drama. The real surprise for me and many others would be the directing chops of Ben Stiller. Impressive performances from Patricia Arquette and Paul Dano who have transformed themselves superbly for their roles. Benicio Del Toro has always been an acting tour de force and this might end up being his best work yet. Great camera work, well-thought out storyline and interesting characters. I found myself being sucked into this simmering prison break drama right off the bat and am really looking forward to this 7-hour movie unfold every week. You have to tuck yourself away.My Rating : 8/10 I'm hooked. And imagine what that does to a human being. 'What parts of myself, as David, am I shutting down because I can't reveal that I feel X, Y and Z? And what are you projecting?' So that was a really helpful thing to hear. "David did talk about how you always have to project something in prison. But Tilly comes up and he's like - " Dano makes the cutoff gesture. "The fact that he didn't say anything about Tilly was also important," Dano adds. "That brings it all back to reality," says Del Toro.ĭano says Sweat gave them a great deal of information about the escape - Stiller "filled his notebook." Then you're thinking, 'OK, this person killed somebody.' " When we were talking with him, we were confronted with the fact that he's still a person. "Maybe it's that I want to believe there's something there, but I don't know that he ends up, had he been given a better chance. Those talents, that practical intelligence, could have been steered toward something, some outlet. If he hadn't, maybe he would have gone into the service. He went from foster home to foster home to foster home as well, at a young age. I know she had a lot of parties, a lot of boyfriends. "Were Richard Matt and David Sweat always going to turn out this way? Or how much of it is the opportunities they were given? David, his mom, I think, was not well. "We can't answer how much is nature, how much is nurture," says Dano, who, along with Stiller and Del Toro, interviewed Sweat. Sweat was in some ways the opposite: under the radar and mechanically adept. If you have that quality and there's evil in you, you're really dangerous." Meaning, he could destroy you very slowly. "That means that he spent a lot of time on one thing. He cites the high level of technical expertise in Matt's paintings their painstaking detail. Matt was also a talented portraitist, but even that skill had its ominous side, warns Del Toro.
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