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Top: In a POV shot from the perspective of Donnie (William H. Macy), frogs rain down during the climactic storm. Middle: The amphibian downpour stuns police officer Kurring (John C. Reilly). Bottom: The crew prepares to film Mackey’s interview.
Anderson were able to fine-tune the lighting as intuitively as they always had. “There are directors who see lighting merely as a way of decorating the scene, but Paul understands what all cinematographers know: lighting in a movie can speak directly to an audience’s feelings,” observes Elswit. “It’s light, far more than color or composition or any other formal design element, that can make this direct emotional connection.” As an example, Elswit points to scenes set in the apartment of Claudia (Walters). She is a deeply disturbed young woman, likely molested by her father, who lives a lonely existence of drug abuse and casual sex. Her apartment windows are covered with different-colored pieces of cloth rather than curtains. “She’s hiding from her life — she lives in this completely isolated environment, and any light that penetrates has to go through the layers she’s wrapped around herself,” Elswit explains. “For a key scene between her and the policeman in the afternoon, there’s blue cloth on her picture window, and we lit from outside through that material. It was extreme, but it works very well. You couldn’t talk some directors into something like that; they might think it’s calling attention to itself. Paul saw it and said, ‘Whoa! That looks like the scene!’” Gaffer Jim Plannette adds, “For those day scenes we had big HMIs coming in through her windows, and
then sometimes we’d bounce a small unit off the ceiling to balance out the exposure.” In a morning scene early in the film, Melora’s father, game-show host Jimmy Gator (Hall), comes to her apartment to speak to her. After
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encountering her one-night stand at the door, he proceeds to her bedroom, where she’s dozing. She flies into a rage and orders him to leave. “The bedroom windows are covered in red cloth, and at one point during their argument it falls
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Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls”
Production Slate: Person of Interest • The Raven
Harsh Realms
Wild Passion
Tales of Ordinary Madness
Top of Their Class
Center Stage for Cinematographers
Post Focus: Technicolor Restores Wings
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
In Memoria: Ric Waite, ASC; Herbert S. Alpert, ASC, CSC
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Darius Khondji
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