Hombre (2013)

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Březen 27, 2013

Leonard Elmore. Rozhlasová dramatizace románu. Klasický western o Johnu Russellovi. Dramatizace Robert Ferguson. Zvukový design Colin Guthrie. Koordinátor produkce Selina Ream. Studio managers Martha Littlehailes, Graham Harper, Michael Etherden. Produkce a režie Sasha Yevtushenko.

Osoby a obsazení: Carl Allen (Trevor White), John Russell (Elliot Cowan), Mr. Mendez (Javier Marzan), Miss McLaren (Kelly Burke), dr. Favor (Nicholas Murchie), Frank Braden (Steven Hartley), Audra Favor (Laurel Lefkow), Lamar Dean (Ben Crowe), Early (Will Howard), bývalý voják (Rick Warden), šerif Lyons (Michael Shelford).

Nastudovalo BBC Radio 4 v roce 2013. Premiéra 23. 3. 2013 (BBC Radio 4, 57 min.) v cyklu Saturday Drama.

Pozn.: John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he’s on his way to live as a white man. But when the stagecoach passengers learn who he is, they want nothing to do with him. That is, until outlaws ride down on them and they must rely on Russell to lead them out of the desert.

Hombre is a novel by American author Elmore Leonard, published in 1961. It was adapted into a film in 1967. It tells the story of an Apache man, John Russell, who leads the passengers of an attacked stagecoach through the desert to safety.
The novel was critically acclaimed upon release, and continues to be regarded to the modern day as a classic of the western genre. It was released as a film six years after its publication.

Hombre was voted one of the best westerns of all time in 1961.

Elmore John Leonard Jr. (born October 11, 1925)
is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures.
Among his best-known works are Get Shorty, Out of Sight, Hombre, Mr. Majestyk and Rum Punch, which was filmed as Jackie Brown. Leonard’s short stories include ones that became the films 3:10 to Yuma and The Tall T, as well as the current TV series on FX, Justified.

Twenty-six of Leonard’s novels and short stories have been adapted for the screen (nineteen as motion pictures and another seven as television programs).
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Recording Elmore Leonard’s Hombre – Behind the Scenes
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FX: footsteps entering. „Hey Hombre. Buenos Dias“
Stephen Harden plays Frank Braden
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In dusty saloon bar..
Nicholas Murchie, Kelly Burkem Trevor White, Javier Marzan, Elliot Cowan
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FX: distant gunshot
Trevor White plays Carl Allen
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FX: Dr Favor arrives, exhausted, terrified. The Passengers retreat to the shelter of the ore shed… Favor drinks greedily
Nicholas Murchie plays the thirsty Dr Favor.
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Martha Littlehailes explains how her team created the sound of 1880s Arizona mining country
Hombre – Pushing the walls outwards

Martha Littlehailes, Senior Studio Manager in the London Radio Drama team,
explains how her team created the sound of 1880s Arizona mining country for the production of Elmore Leonard’s Hombre, The Saturday Drama – 23 March 2013.

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Hombre – Pushing the walls outwards

Now, obviously, it would be ideal to go out somewhere hot and dry with actors and kit. Given the weather lately, I fancied Nevada or perhaps Morocco… Sadly, the reality is that we have to do it all in one big windowless room in BBC Broadcasting House in just two days. Luckily, our Drama studio is actually pretty wonderful. Arizona Canyon Arizona Canyon

Our first mission was to build our small town in 1880s Arizona. We needed all the rooms to be made from wood. To get that rough-hewn feel to the place I put carpet down on the existing wooden floor then laid shallow wooden podiums on that. They are only two inches high but gave that fantastic sound of boots on a hollow wooden floor. We wanted our cowboys to sound like they meant business. Listen to the feet in the stagecoach ticket office, gorgeous!

Once the action of the story moves into the desert we have the real challenge. Distance. How do you make somewhere sound like a huge empty space when we’re stuck in a room? I laid carpet across our Exterior space in the studio so we heard as little as possible of the room acoustic and on top of it went sheets with gravel for feet to scuff across.

For our exterior backgrounds, we mixed air, hot wind, crickets and the occasional bird from our sound effects library. When you are listening you want to hear the distance – air and wind help but adding in a very distant sound, such as a buzzard screeching, fools the ears into thinking the space is much bigger and wider.

We made sure that the sound effects of guns were as specific as possible. For example, the gunshots from villain Frank Braden’s gun are not the same as those from his companion Early, or hero Russell. Also, we had to make sure the perspective of near gunshots contrasted with ones far off at the mine shaft.

I loved working on Hombre, my fellow studio managers were terrific, and our colleague Colin Guthrie did a superb job on the post-production. I hope you enjoy it.