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Laws of the Jungle Right: Dengler whiles away some time with Duane (Steve Zahn), a fellow American prisoner. Below: Director Werner Herzog gives some last-minute instruction to Bale and Zahn as cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger (holding camera) and 1st AC Erik Söllner stand by. rative and literal bush, often with handheld cameras bearing short lenses: “There is a key sentence in Rescue Dawn when Dieter and the other prisoners in the camp are talking about escaping, and one of them says, ‘The jungle is the prison.’ That key sentence was leading Werner’s intention; that’s the reason we tried to make it as real as possible and keep the audi- ence in the world of the jungle, rather than show it to them with long-lens photography. [Long lenses] make for beautiful pictures, but that’s not the world you are in.” Zeitlinger’s solidarity with Herzog’s intent is the key to a loyalty reciprocated by the director, who tells AC that Rescue Dawn’s neophyte producers, who wanted something on the order of the deft action flick The Rundown, did not want Zeitlinger to shoot the picture. “Peter’s strong and has a great eye, and having him around, I was confident,” says the director. “The production company tried to move him out before he’d shown up on the set, and that was my line in the sand. I said, ‘If you force Zeitlinger out, I might as well go, too.’” The film that first drew Herzog’s attention to Zeitlinger was one that delved into the cinematographer’s own history as a refugee. Zeitlinger was 9 years old when he fled with his mother to Austria from the Soviet Union’s 1968 occupation of Czechoslovakia. He reflected on that period of his life while shooting and editing Ulrich Seidl’s Loss Is to Be Expected, about the turbulence created in society and families when the Czech/Austrian border was opened after 40 years. When the producers balked at financing the film’s completion, Herzog, 46 July 2007
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Cinematographer - July 2007
Contents
Editor’s Note
DVD Playback
Production Slate
One-Man Riot Squad
Laws of the Jungle
A Hollywood Whodunit
Pièce de Résistance
Short Takes
Post Focus
Filmmakers’ Forum
New Products & Services
Points East
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up
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