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‘The White Lotus’: How Editing and Sound Helped Make Thailand a Character in the Story
'The White Lotus': How Thailand 'speaks to the story and the characters' through editing and sound.
Rerecording mixer Christian Minkler notes that the uniqueness of Thailand (previous seasons were set in Hawaii and Italy) brought with it its own considerations for the soundscape, which included creating a rich world and supporting the narrative. The season culminates with a 90-minute finale, titled “Amor Fati” (a Latin phrase meaning “love of fate”) that required wrapping up each character’s storyline, edited by Valerio with Scott Turner, working closely with White. To keep the episode to 90 minutes (at one point it was two hours in length), Valerio describes how they had to focus on what was most needed to conclude the characters’ stories, which included cutting a scene between college student Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook) and Belinda’s visiting son, Zion (Nicholas Duvernay).
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