![]() ![]() When they went over the footage that Brooks filmed at the pool, they also noticed the 30-foot marker “perfectly positioned almost in the center.” “Lin kept looking at the 30 and then said, ‘What if Jonathan touches the 30, the number he’s so scared of turning, and it turns into a treble clef?’” Brooks said. “And we started noticing things, like the striped lines at the bottom of the pool, Lin thought they looked like musical staff paper.” Later, they realized that the tiles’ green and red colors matched the green and red mentioned in Larson’s song - because this was actually the pool he used to work out. “The pool had these ancient patina tiles that you only have in New York,” Brooks said. After a citywide search, the film crew settled on the pool at the Tony Dapolito Recreation Center in the West Village. Some of those answers came through the process of trying to find the right indoor swimming pool. Miranda “had us prep in the same way he would workshop a show, where we didn’t have to know all the answers right away.” “It was a process of discovery and collaboration among everyone,” Brooks said. ![]() Miranda and screenwriter Steven Levenson had already arrived at the idea of using “Swimming” to get the character of Larson to his eureka moment when Brooks started working with them but hadn’t yet filled out the specifics, like the notes’ sudden appearance at the bottom of the pool. Cinematographer Alice Brooks, who also worked with Miranda on In the Heights (which has its own big pool-centric number), walked us through how the crucial moment came together with the help of an animatic she drafted during the film’s development process. He looks down and sees the song written across the tiling below him. There, in a sequence set to the song “Swimming,” a song from early versions of the musical cut during its development, inspiration strikes when he’s in the middle of the pool. With the deadline approaching, he cycles through every form of procrastination, gets into a fight with his girlfriend Susan (Alexandra Shipp), finds the power at his apartment shut off, and then, finally, resorts to swimming laps at his local indoor pool. In Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of Tick, Tick … Boom!, Andrew Garfield’s Jonathan Larson spends much of the movie unable to write what he knows will be the key song for his upcoming show, an act-two solo for its female lead. Moments of artistic inspiration can be notoriously difficult to depict onscreen, especially since they tend to be preceded by a lot of what seems, externally, like doing nothing. ![]()
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