For the crane shots, a crane manufactured by the Munich-based film technical company, Panther, was used.
Xavier Dolan may be 25 years old, but the French-Canadian filmmaker already shares two things with cinema legend Jean-Luc Godard: the 2014 Cannes' Jury Prize and an audience erupting into applause over their films' unprecedented technical achievements.
Among the film's technical achievements is that it is the first feature film to contain a complete sequence created entirely with computer-generated graphics.
Jeffrey "Mad Dog" Beck, a star investment banker at the time with Drexel Burnham Lambert, was one of the film's technical advisers and has a cameo appearance in the film as the man speaking at the meeting discussing the breakup of Bluestar.
The film's technical merits are (with one big exception) beyond reproach, but this is clearly a film more focused on the literal nuts-and-bolts of its futuristic technology than the nuts-and-bolts of its narrative.
Jaime FitzSimons, a longtime friend of Ayer and a former police officer with the LAPD, served as the film's technical advisor, and his experiences from working in Los Angeles inspired several plot points of the film.
Tibbets was also the model for screenwriter Sy Bartlett's fictional character "Major Joe Cobb" in the film Twelve O'Clock High, and for a brief period in February 1949 was slated to be the film's technical advisor until his replacement at the last minute by Colonel John H. deRussy.
Does the film's technical excellence excuse its racist leanings?
First, there's the film's technical sassiness.
The film's technical achievements expose a lack of spiritual imagination.
