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Top: The O’Brien boys climb skyward. Middle and bottom: Mr. O’Brien enters a cathedral of trees, where viewers experience his POV from the ground.
start filming a scene with the Steadicam with Lubezki at his side riding iris, and when the magazine ran out, they might trade places, with Lubezki shooting handheld. “I’ve never been on a set where the crew was so tuned into the movie,” says Lubezki. “At one point while we were shooting, somebody suddenly screamed, ‘Oh, my god! The fireflies are out!’ because he’d heard six weeks earlier that Terry wanted to shoot fireflies.” The crew immediately rushed out to shoot the fireflies. Serendipity is another key feature of Malick’s approach. His collaborators are always open to shooting the accidental and the unexpected. One morning, a butterfly flew by as the crew was preparing for the day. Lubezki grabbed the Arri 235 and filmed it as it landed on Chastain’s outstretched arm. The shot then follows the butterfly onto the grass, where a cat shows up in the frame. “Usually on a film set, you wait more than you shoot, but in our case we shot more than we waited,” says Widmer. “Sometimes we didn’t wait to reload; we simply took a different camera and restarted the scene. Everything happened so quickly, and the kids’ energy was lost so easily if we didn’t continue immediately. “The concept was to change, to always vary things,” he continues. Malick would alternate between Steadicam and
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of American Cinematographer - August 2011
American Cinematographer - August 2011
Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: The Arrival
Production Slate: Rise of the Planet of the Apes • Femme Fatales
Cosmic Questions
Darkest Arts
An All-American Hero
Once Upon a Time in the West
Post Focus
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Tom Houghton
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American Cinematographer - August 2011 - Editor’s Note
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American Cinematographer - August 2011 - President’s Desk
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American Cinematographer - August 2011 - Short Takes: The Arrival
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