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Road Warriors
Driver hunts Nino (Ron Perlman, in frame grab above) at night in the film’s final chase sequence, which culminates in a crash that sends Nino’s car hurtling onto the beach. The sequence was filmed at Malibu’s Point Mugu, where the production set up the sodium-vapor streetlamps shown here.
ing the police and delivering two thieves to the parking lot of the Staples Center, where they and Driver disappear into the crowd. “That first chase is meant to be very subjective,” says Sigel. “For the bulk of it, [we] don’t even leave the car — the whole sequence is from Driver’s point of view.” To position cameras in and around the car, Klabukov and his crew rigged high hats inside and speed-rail rigs along the outside. “As part of my test, I took Ryan out in a car, and Tony and I rigged the car with a rack overhead with all different kinds of tiny lights, such as LEDs and 150-watt [Arri Fresnels],” says Sigel. “We wired them all into dimmers in the trunk that could be wirelessly controlled, so we could turn lights off and on or dim them up and down. The lights were all so small and unobtrusive that they were never in shot, so Ryan could just drive around while Tony played the roof rack like a musical instrument. There were also times when we’d kill all of our lights — we’d pull up to a stoplight, and you could see the light on Ryan’s face go from red to green.” For the shoot, the filmmakers refined the system they had utilized for the test and continued to light primarily from the roof-mounted speed-rail rig, which sat like a halo atop the car. Off of the rig, the crew positioned Arri
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Contents
Editor’s Note
President’s Desk
Short Takes: Woolite “Torture”
Production Slate: The Skin I Live In • Margin Call
Road Warriors
Man of Action
Home Invasion
King of New York
Post Focus: Restoring A Trip to the Moon
Filmmakers’ Forum: Karl Walter Lindenlaub, ASC, BVK
New Products & Services
International Marketplace
Classified Ads
Ad Index
In Memoriam: Takuo “Tak” Miyagishima
Clubhouse News
ASC Close-Up: Xavier Grobet
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American Cinematographer - October 2011 - Editor’s Note
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American Cinematographer - October 2011 - President’s Desk
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American Cinematographer - October 2011 - In Memoriam: Takuo “Tak” Miyagishima
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