American Cinematographer - April 2008 - (Page 30) Sharks Russell Carpenter, ASC doubles down and shoots digitally on the feature 21. by Jay Holben Unit photography by Peter Iovino Card S 30 April 2008 ince it originated in France in the 1700s, the game of Vingtet-un, later Americanized as “Blackjack,” has been an obsession for millions of chance players the world over. The design of the game gives the house only a slight statistical advantage over the gambler. In the early 1990s, a group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) mathematics students melded the art of card counting into an elaborate system of scouts and signals to beat the game and win big. Their experiences were chronicled by author Ben Mezrich in Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, and that book is the basis of the film 21, directed by Robert Luketic and shot by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Russell Carpenter, ASC (Titanic; AC Dec. ’97). 21 follows Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess), a math student at MIT who is struggling to make ends meet. He catches the eye of one of his professors, statistical genius Mickey Rosa (Kevin Spacey), who tries to recruit him to be part of a cardcounting team. Campbell is reluctant to join but is soon seduced by a comely fellow counter, Jill (Kate Bosworth). “Our approach to the visuals was basically to establish a world of lines, predictability and subtle confinement in Boston and then counter it with the alien environment of the casinos, Vegas and money,” says Carpenter, who previously collaborated with Luketic on Monster-in-Law (AC June ’05). “I wanted Las Vegas to be about energy,
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