Update VI: Art Direction - Scene 22 & 27

Scene 22

He’s doing what kids do: staying out after curfew. For a modern day child this would result in a reprimand… but for this child it results in a shooting. His ear get shot off. He walk back in the dark to his adopted family who’ve taken shelter in the rubble. Bleeding, he assumed his place next to them… but even there, there’s no relief. There’s no medicine. There’s no compassion. No one has any to spare. There’s only rebuke.

Scene 27

Some of the most colorful scenes in Milkweed the book are the scenes when Misha sees the carousel. The imagined colors of WWII are always muted and dark. But, carousels will always be vibrant in our imaginations. There’s also another thing about the carousel: it represents cycles. Some cycles we wish would continue forever, and others, we desperately want to break- like the cycles of hatred and war. Up close a lot of carousel horses don’t look too happy but like they’re trying to break free, but can’t. In this rough draft of scene 27, when watched quickly, all the horses together look like a -single horse- running. With singularity of purpose- we can break free.