{"id":109162,"date":"2019-02-05T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=109162"},"modified":"2019-02-04T10:15:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T16:15:05","slug":"sundance-movie-paddleton-genuine-bromance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/sundance-movie-paddleton-genuine-bromance\/","title":{"rendered":"In Sundance Movie Paddleton, Limited Space and Time Yield A Genuine Bromance"},"content":{"rendered":"

DP Nate Miller used some choice road movie tricks with a close-knit team to let Ray Romano and Mark Duplass shine in Netflix’s latest dramedy.<\/h2>\n

One character in Paddleton<\/em>, which premiered this year at Sundance<\/a>,\u00a0was a troublemaker behind the scenes. It was not Mark Duplass<\/a>‘s middle-aged cancer patient, nor his reforming pessimist neighbor, played by Ray Romano<\/a>. It was the boxy, red, ’90s-model Nissan Sentra the pair drives for much of the film.<\/p>\n

“Of course it was the tiniest thing they could find,” laughs DP Nate Miller<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Greg Hatton, Nate Miller, and Tadd Sackville-West on the Paddleton<\/em> set. Photo by Patrick Wymore (courtesy of Netflix).<\/p><\/div>\n

Quarters had to be close for Paddleton<\/em>‘s misfit duo to convincingly \u2014 and clumsily \u2014 bond over a six-hour road trip to pick up a prescription that will end Duplass’s character’s life before cancer kills him. With barely enough room in the car for one camera and a person to operate it, the crew removed the Sentra’s passenger seat at one point. Miller insisted that director Alex Lehmann<\/a>, also a DP, shoot a key scene requiring a 180-pan. Miller watched from a follow car as Lehmann directed the actors and maneuvered the Canon C700FF on a Bazooka. The take shot by the director is the one in the movie.<\/p>\n

“The whole idea with the film was to make this thing feel as real as possible,” Miller says. “I really love that shot.”<\/p>\n