I love that the music feels so organic and that it feels like an expression of the cast members when they need to sing. It’s organic and part of the storytelling. When Usnavi tells the kids at the beach that the streets are made of music, you are allowed to be in a musical, and it invites the audience to suspend their disbelief. “Reflections play a big visual role throughout the movie, we have lots of reflection shots, and that is our first main one – there’s a smaller one with Abuela Claudia (Olga Merediz) before that, but for this, there’s a push in of Usnavi in the window of the bodega, and it’s the first time you see dance, and I love that the first time you see dance in this movie is reflection. We kept a really good journal of exactly what the light was doing outside the bodega, and we were able to replicate those then when we got to our stage, and I think it works seamlessly. “I asked my gaffer to take lots of color temperature readings and weather readings.
She breaks down the framing process for key sequences. It is the story about what happens when your dreams come true.
Brooks describes the film as one that is an “immigrant story.
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