I’m J.C. Chandor, and I’m the co-writer and director

of “Triple Frontier.”

So this is really a turning point in the movie for me.

It’s this very, very, very sad thing that has just happened,

where there’s been this horrible interaction

with these villagers, and they now

have to walk up through the village

and face that reality.

This is set on the Brazilian border

sort of somewhere in north South America somewhere.

And you see the Andes here off in the background.

The scene was actually shot on a set we built in Hawaii.

But I think this is really just one

of the most emotional parts of the movie for me,

where Ben’s character has to face the families of what’s

just happened.

This next scene is one of my favorites from a directing

standpoint.

It’s really just two setups.

There’s this wide.

We punch in a little bit, and then there’s

an over the shoulder shot, which you’ll see.

But this is where they basically pay off

this villager for this horrible moment of collateral

damage that they caused.

Here we are the second shot, which is just

this over the shoulder, and then we

come back to the close up from the same angle.

But I think it’s a really neat example, where this

is entirely natural light.

You don’t have to be in close-ups.

You don’t have to be over people’s shoulders

and doing a lot of fancy stuff.

If the scene has enough intensity built into it,

sometimes it’s best to just let the audience sit and see

it.

And you almost are in this village elder’s head here

when this happens, and he sort of tragically

decides to go along with this deal

that they’re presenting him with.

Which I think in interviewing a bunch of the special forces

guys that had to do this in real life,

this was just sort of the worst experience

of their time, was having to go in and pay off

villagers for this damage that was done.

As Garrett Hedlund’s character comes up the hill here

with the donkeys, we start to realize

that the movie’s going to take a different pace here

for a bit, as they’re going to have to go on a journey.”

“Come on.”

“And then here, this is the young villager

from earlier in this scene sort of staring down Ben.

And this was, again, a call back to senior villagers

having to sort of hold back the young men

in their villages from exacting revenge,

because, quote unquote, these guys had paid their debt.

Which here, as the village elder delivers this line,

It’s one of the most haunting lines in the movie for me.”