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No Dialogue | Environmentally-themed
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2020 | Godfrey
Best Documentary | 1983
Best Music | 1983 | Philip
1983 | Godfrey
Budget 600,000 USD
Box Office Collection 3,200,000 USD
Godfrey Reggio was hooked on Philip Glass doing the music. He approached Glass through a mutual friend, and Glass replied, "I don't do film music." Reggio persisted, and finally the friend told Glass that the tenacious guy was not going to go away without at least an audience. Glass relented, though he still insisted he wasn't doing the music. Reggio put together a photo montage with Glass' music as the soundtrack, which he presented to Glass at a private screening in New York. Immediately following the screening, Glass agreed to score the film.
It took almost 6 years to make the film.
One shot of a mountain range was provided by MacGillivray-Freeman Films; the shot was leftover footage from The Shining (1980). Another film to use leftover footage from the same very stock was Blade Runner (1982) which famously included some in theatrical ending.
Philip Glass divided the film into 12 different sections and wrote music for each. However, once Godfrey Reggio heard the music, he completely reassembled the film, cutting to the feel of the music and not its structure.
Scoring for the film took over 3 years as it was a continually evolving process.
"[last lines] title card: Translation of the Hopi Prophecies sung in the film: "If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster." - "Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky." - "A container of ashes might one day be thrown from the sky, which could burn the land and boil the oceans.""
"title card: ko-yaa-nis-qatsi [from the Hopi language] title card: n. 1. crazy life. 2. life in turmoil. 3. life out of balance. 4. life disintegrating. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living."
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