Notes from a Chadds Ford Redneck
 about 
 "The Village"
or
 "what's life like with Disney and Shyamalan in your back yard?"

 

Chadds Ford Inspirations

If this wall is giving you deja-vu that is because set decorators made a rubber mold of it. They then used that to cast plaster of paris "panels" of stone work for the "Village" houses.


OPEN SHED    Andrew Wyeth    watercolor     1966    22x30 in

Then there is Andrew Wyeth


Photo by Frank Masi - © 2004 Touchstone Pictures
"Andrew was the main inspiration for the look of the movie," explains Shyamalan. "In fact, for a long time I was talking to Disney about whether we could get the rights to one of his pictures for the poster." 

The director, who met with the 87-year-old artist last year, says he was inspired to use not only the same landscapes that  appear in so many Wyeth paintings, but the same aesthetic. 

"The grays, and the minimalism, and the light - that's all from Andrew," he reports. "And there's not a lot on the walls... . He painted a lot of scenes from one doorway [looking] into another doorway, an old-fashioned bed and all. Creepy. Creepy beautiful."

 
("A setting right out of Andrew Wyeth"   By Steven Rea     Philadelphia Inquirer Movie Critic)
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