American Cinematographer - October 2007 - (Page 52) Emotional Betrayal Above: The crew prepares to film Chia Chih and her friends on a tram using a Pegasus Crane and PowerPod remote head. “This shows some of the lighting for the tram scene,” says Prieto. “The 24K on a 100-foot Condor in the background is gelled with 1⁄2 CTB and 1⁄4 Plus Green for our ‘moonlight.’ On another Condor is a Blanket Light rigged as toplight, reproducing a streetlamp.” Right: Prieto and director Ang Lee fine-tune their approach. For that, I used the Angenieux Optimo zoom at 290mm focal length.” An important part of the lighting design was the mixing of colored lights and color temperatures. “Compared to other films I’ve done, the lighting in this movie is more deliberate, more designed, but I still wanted it to be unobtrusive — like the duck paddling,” says Prieto. “Chia Chih and the students are actors, so I felt I could allow myself to be a little more artificial with lighting, in the sense that all this is like her stage. But any lighting we used was usually justified with a source.” One example of a subtly stylized lighting scheme is the third sexual encounter between Chia Chih and Yee. It follows a scene in which he reveals himself to be a torturer and admits he sometimes imagines her face in his victim’s. The sex that follows is “an intense combination of death and passion and lust,” says Prieto. In discussing the scene, Lee had shown him an erotic Tibetan thangka painting. “The background was black, and it was full of color and complicated imagery — the whole story in one page — with red, purple, and greens,” says the cinematographer. “It felt violent.” The production designer incorporated the colors into the wallpaper and blanket, and Prieto intended to emulate them with lighting. “I wanted just one light source, and it was very important to decide what that lamp would be because that would determine the color. We finally chose one with a green lampshade, 52 October 2007
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