After that, the actors were welcome to loosen up, to tinker with line delivery and blocking. “The first iteration should be true to the original,” he said. At the top of his list of issues to discuss: stamina and boredom. On New York’s first brilliant spring day, Levine met with half a dozen actors to rehearse. The only thing that might distinguish him from other runners is his shaggy haircut and seventies-style athletic gear. “We’re paying him to do what he would be doing anyway,” Levine said.
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There’s the scene from "The Royal Tenenbaums" in which Gene Hackman and Anjelica Huston stroll along the Harlem Meer the scene from “The Out of Towners” in which Jack Lemmon cracks his front tooth on a stale Cracker Jack and the scene in which Dustin Hoffman runs around the Central Park Reservoir in “Marathon Man.” For that last scene, Creative Time hired an ultra-marathon runner to run from noon to 6 P.M. (The project is produced by Creative Time as part of its six-week festival, Drifting in Daylight.) Levine has taken scenes from different films and asked actors to restage each of them, over and over, for six hours on Fridays and Saturdays. This glut of cinematic associations inspired the artist David Levine’s “Private Moment,” a piece of experimental theatre being performed in eight repeating scenes throughout the park. There hardly seems to be an acre of the park that hasn’t been preserved on film.
There’s the Plaza, as well as Essex House, towering above Sheep’s Meadow Conservatory Water, with its toy sailboats Belvedere Castle, overlooking the pond Strawberry Fields, a permanent tribute to John Lennon and the unauthorized kitsch he inspired and the Alice in Wonderland sculpture, so worn from children’s hands that the bronze patina has rubbed off.
Even to native New Yorkers, Central Park can seem like a composite of iconic sights and cinematic views.
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