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[An old article that I came across which gives a little more background on The Novice - although there is no mention of Amy, it is a good read!]
Mobile moviemaking: Filmmakers finish shooting ’The Novice’ in the area Set in Mobile, the movie stars Jacob Pitts, Alan Arkin and Joanne Whalley
Cast, crew and bystanders threw quick, anxious looks at the threatening sky — dark except during the short-spaced lightning bursts — on the set last week of the independent feature film “The Novice.”
Mostly, their attention was on a goat — a goat that seemed intent on giving one interpretation to the scene being filmed, whereas the director wanted another.
In other words, director Murray Robinson — a Mobile native who this past weekend concluded a month of principal photography at locations in Mobile and Baldwin counties — desired the goat to move in a particular direction.
Take after take, the goat went the other way. Actors Jacob Pitts, Alan Arkin and Joanne Whalley, who were all nearby, awaited their turn in front of the lens.
Eventually, Robinson got his shot — or, at least, some compromised version of it.
Then the rain fell hard and sent everyone and a great deal of expensive moviemaking equipment racing for the shelter of the St. Joan of Arc School on Ann Street, which in the movie is standing in for the fictional Seaside Rescue Mission.
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