Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7” is a historical drama, but one element of the film wasn’t entirely true to life. The courtroom — the centerpiece of the film where the seven titular defendants and one more man faced charges of inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention — was not modeled after the real one at the writer/director’s request.
“The original courtroom was designed by Mies van der Rohe in the International Style in the Federal Building in Chicago and the look wasn’t quite what he was looking for,” Shane Valentino tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Experts: Film Production Design panel (watch above). “I think he was just coming off of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ [on Broadway] and those sort of traditional courtrooms with a lot of the wood tones, and was sort of leaning toward that aesthetic.”
Valentino at first lobbied to...
“The original courtroom was designed by Mies van der Rohe in the International Style in the Federal Building in Chicago and the look wasn’t quite what he was looking for,” Shane Valentino tells Gold Derby at our Meet the Experts: Film Production Design panel (watch above). “I think he was just coming off of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ [on Broadway] and those sort of traditional courtrooms with a lot of the wood tones, and was sort of leaning toward that aesthetic.”
Valentino at first lobbied to...
- 12/21/2020
- by Joyce Eng
- Gold Derby
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