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‘The Sympathizer’: How Park Chan-wook Storyboarded the Climatic Fall of Saigon Bombing Sequence
Director Park Chan-wook talks with Variety about storyboarding the escape from Saigon sequence in 'The Sympathizer'
Director Park Chan-wook didn’t always storyboard scenes to help his filmmaking: It wasn’t until his 2000 film “Joint Security Area” that he began using the technique. At the end of Episode 1 of the limited series set during the Vietnam War, The Captain(Hoa Xuande), The General (Toan Le) and their families are attempting to flee Saigon by plane and come under heavy bombing. Production designer Alec Hammond found the airstrip was not long enough for Park to land the plane so he did a partial build and left the rest to Visual Effects.
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