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Cool, Calm, Creative

Top: Cundey and
his colleagues
capture some
action on the
Universal Studios
lot for Back to
the Future Part II.
Bottom: The
cinematographer
poses in front of
the main location
for Road House.

he accepted any position available,
including makeup artist, editor and
gaffer. To market himself as a cinematographer more effectively, he
customized a Dodge Maxi van and
outfitted it with camera and lighting
equipment. He also put together a crew,
which included Stella.
Stella still marvels at Cundey's
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patience. On their first job together, a
short film, they were shooting high
speed when the magazine jammed. "We
had already shot half the mag," recalls
Stella. "It was the first jam I'd ever dealt
with, and I didn't know what to do, so I
pulled the film out and took it over to
Dean. 'Is that the film we just shot?' he
asked. I said, 'Yes,' and he said, 'Oh.
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Next time, save as much as you can.'
Most guys would have torn my head
off!"
Cundey's lifelong passion for
science and technology has proven a
tremendous asset in the face of the
industry's constant evolution. "We make
the real world bow to imagination, and
we use science-based, real-world things
to achieve that," he observes.
"Dean not only embraces new
technology, he also understands it!"
Carpenter notes wryly.
Spielberg recalls wanting a radical
key-to-fill ratio for Jurassic Park, "and I
knew Dean could do it. Dean also had
great ideas about how to light the
dinosaurs to make us think we were
seeing more than we actually were. He
lit Stan Winston's full-size animatronic
creatures using edgier light to make
them look larger and more ferocious.
And he was great at separating the characters from the background.
"Dean also convinced me to build
more sets," Spielberg continues. "He
said, 'I can make the inside look like
outside, and we'll have much more
control.' He made us believe we were



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