Toronto's Humber College is the only school in Ontario that offers a full Funeral Service Education course in English, so we figured it was the best place to find out about the funeral-director scene.
The director shot one scene over and over.
The trouble is, said CAROL KELLERMAN, the executive director, that scene does not appear in the book.
If one director's scene doesn't grab you, distract yourself in the kitchen with a martini-whipped with an eggbeater, not stirred-until the next.
The tattooed cruise director (a scene-chewing Brian Livingston), who says things like "We exist outside the rules," appears like a prophet of doom.
This director includes scenes that could come out of an agitprop Marx Brothers comedy, like the pre-independence exchange between Lumumba and the Belgian bureaucrat Ganshof Van der Meersch (André Debaar).
The director incorporates scenes that range from the visually simple (when the performers stand still for minutes under white lights), to the complex (detailed choreography of the final scenes under pumping house music).
For "Turtle," the director Nick Stringer shot some scenes with rescued turtles in what, in the production notes, he called "a specially built marine studio".
"It is always better," she says, "to have a few scenes with a good director, than many scenes with a bad one.
A director can cut from scene to scene but not from scene to idea.
