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Top: Keane's husband, Walter (Christoph Waltz), convinces her to perpetuate the ruse.
Middle: Tim Burton (right) directs Adams in a scene. Bottom: Cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel,
ASC, AFC (left) discusses a scene with gaffer Drew Davidson (gray shirt) and key grip Finn King.

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through a Depron foam board - you
know, the kind the old McDonald's
hamburger boxes were made of. For
close-ups it's fantastic. It's easier to start
with the 2mm, and if that's not soft
enough you can have a White Diffusion
behind it, maybe a 251 or 252.
What's an example of 'twisted'
lighting?
Delbonnel: Twisted was bringing
bright red colors, [and] using lavender
and orange and cyan and red in different
scenes just to create a mood which is not
very pleasant, like in the jazz club -
which was inspired by the 'Hungry i,' a
real club in San Francisco in the Fifties -
which is really sketchy and dark.
[Another example is] at the end of the
movie, when everything is going wrong
between Walter and Margaret, and I was
playing with ripples from the swimming
pool on their faces. It's like in the Italian
horror films where they'll place a light
that just feels wrong and uncomfortable.
I was using a lot of very saturated colors
in very specific scenes - the kind of
thing you find in those films. I don't
know if I succeeded, but it's more twisted
than anything I've tried before.
Does your collaboration with a
given director affect your work as a
cinematographer?
Delbonnel: I'm very fortunate
because Tim doesn't tell me how to do
things. We have discussions, so he just
assumes that I know what he wants. On
top of that, he trusts my taste. He lets me
do what I feel is right, and if it's not, then
he'll tell me. For example, there's a scene
in the jazz-club kitchen where Walter
Keane is speaking with the manager, and
I put this cyan on the fluorescent overhead lights, and there was a very saturated red color coming from another
room. I thought that maybe I was going
a little too far, but Tim loved it. He has
more of an opinion about production
design, and if the production design is
right, then the light will follow.
What medium did you capture
to?
Delbonnel: This was my first
movie shooting digital. We wanted to
shoot it on film, but Technicolor Vancouver had shut down [its film lab] a month



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