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Hey, it\u2019s Scott Cooper. I\u2019m the writer and director of \u201cSpringsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.\u201d This is one of my favorite sequences in the film. \u201cThere\u2019s just one more track I have to lay down.\u201d Because it\u2019s not about performance. It\u2019s about confession where we see Jeremy Allen White, who\u2019s playing Bruce Springsteen, is about to record his most personal and enduring song. This sequence is meant to show songwriting isn\u2019t about invention, but, as Bruce said to me, excavation: that he dug down where it hurt most. And I wanted to capture not the spectacle of Bruce Springsteen, but the intimacy. In this particular sequence, \u201cMy Father\u2019s House,\u201d obviously, this is Jeremy singing in the bedroom, but there\u2019s a moment here when I cut to the image of young Bruce standing next to the tree. \u266b … through the trees … \u266b where I weave in Bruce\u2019s voice from the original \u201cNebraska\u201d recording, which speaks to how I wanted the movie to feel like it\u2019s haunted by Bruce Springsteen and haunted by his pain. The reason I chose to shoot the flashbacks in black and white is because Bruce said to me that he only thinks of this time in his life as black and white. In terms of Jeremy Allen White\u2019s performance as Bruce, both as he embodies Bruce, but also in singing, it wasn\u2019t about mimicry or imitation, it was about finding the truth of who Bruce is. \u266b My father\u2019s house stood shining hard and bright. \u266b You see, father and son in 1958, watching \u201cThe Night of the Hunter.\u201d And this is a film that isn\u2019t just a cinematic reference. It\u2019s a psychological mirror for Bruce. It\u2019s a metaphor for Bruce\u2019s childhood anxieties, where he\u2019s trying to outrun the darkness that shaped him. And by showing young Bruce with his father, though we\u2019ve had flashbacks in other places in the film, this isn\u2019t a flashback, but it\u2019s more a confrontation. And we see his father\u2019s silence, his stoicism, his refusal to comfort young Bruce, and that becomes older Bruce\u2019s greatest wound. Decades later, seeing older Bruce in the theater, watching his younger self with his father, for me, means that Bruce is still searching that silence for meaning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n