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King of the Monsters
Top: As the crew
preps a scene
amid heaps of
wreckage, a
SuperTechno 50
angles in on an
actor portraying a
soldier. Bottom:
McGarvey adds
some flashlight
illumination as
U.S. forces
recover a
warhead.
at night, the image is a bit distorted on
the edges of these C Series lenses."
This required fitting a proper ground
glass in each Alexa, and the workflow
was established as part of McGarvey's
prep, ensuring that editorial and post
were on the same page "so what we
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composed for is what ended up on the
big screen.
"While it may seem counterintuitive because Godzilla is so tall, the
[widescreen] frame actually allowed us
to more effectively reveal him in pieces,
as we had to constantly tilt up to see
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him," continues McGarvey. "That
helped suggest his scale in our world;
the POV is generally that of a person
rather than this floating, God's-eye
perspective. The horizontal frame also
allowed us to compose characters in
these binary combinations and play the
space between them, as well as the
foreground or background. That's
where anamorphic really comes into its
own, delivering something the eye
cannot otherwise see."
Also helping to suggest scale was
the careful use of performers as foreground elements, tying the destruction
to a human experience. "One of the
references we used for that was The
Battle of Algiers," says McGarvey. "It's
not an obvious connection, but this
city in chaos and people immersed in
warfare was a huge inspiration."
In terms of tone, McGarvey's
experience on Oliver Stone's World
Trade Center (AC Aug. '06) also helped
suggest the gravity the filmmakers
wanted to instill in Godzilla. "We
referenced a lot of 9/11 imagery not
only in terms of the destruction, but
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