《狗镇》三部曲(狗镇、曼德勒、乔治·华盛顿)中的第三部电影,冯·提尔的前摄影指导安东尼·多德·曼特尔在接受The Film Stage采访时证实了《乔治·华盛顿》的存在。
“Manderlay, which is the sequel, is an incarnate stepping stone to what was going to become a… kind of culmination […] So we had, definitely, clear ideas about what “George Washington” could be about […] there were notes about “George Washington”. He’d had an idea of what he was going to do; I can’t remember it now. Clearly I’ve subconsciously repressed it.”
“I said, “Well, why don’t we”––and I don’t think anybody’s ever heard this, and he probably can’t remember, knowing him now––but I said, “Why don’t we build the set in a boat, on a boat? On a massive, stable, safe container and shoot going across the Atlantic? And you come; you can sail. Shoot it as a set, like a studio––have a studio set exactly like we do on Dogville and Manderlay––and shoot it. So we create everything we want with the actors and do it in a compact space. It takes 17 days to get across the Atlantic. We never took much more than that to shoot the others.”