Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “The Five Heartbeats”
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Veronica Wells
The dance sequence
Watching the film, you would never notice this but really, the only reason the dance scene with Sarge was composed of black and white photos instead of moving footage is because Townsend and the crew ran out of money for the production. Townsend told Global Grind, the lack of money actually turned out not to be so bad.
“It forces creativity sometimes when you have limitations, so it kind of forced my creative radar to go up higher.”
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