‘Woman in the Window’ Director Joe Wright Says the Version Released Was Not the Film He Made
thewrap.comVulture in a recent interview. “It got watered down a lot. It was a lot more brutal in my original conception. Both aesthetically, with really f–king hard cuts and really violent music — Trent Reznor did an incredible score for it that was abrasive and hardcore — and in its depiction of Anna, Amy Adams’s character, who was far messier and kind of despicable in a lot of ways.”Reznor and Atticus Ross’ original score was tossed in favor of a new score by Danny Elfman, and the film was re-edited after reshoots.
The “Pride and Prejudice” and “Hanna” filmmaker said in his version, Adams’ character – the one who thinks she witnessed a crime – was softened in the new edit.“Unfortunately, audiences like women to be nice in their movies,” Wright said. “They don’t want to see them get messy and ugly and dark and drunk and taking pills.
It’s fine for men to be like that, but not for women. So the whole thing was watered down to be something that it wasn’t.”In the version that was ultimately released, Adams’ character gets something of a redemption arc and a tragic backstory before she turns into an unlikely hero in the third act.Wright admitted the original editing style of the film was intentionally anxiety-inducing, describing the film’s cinematic style as “brutal” and “brutalist.”But when asked whether his cut might see the light of day, Wright was doubtful. “I think it would cost a lot money to do, because you’d have to reedit the whole thing, regrade it, remix it.
But it would be fun,” the filmmaker acknowledged. “I’d love to do it. There’s a great scene where she had sex with the bloke downstairs and stuff like that.
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