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dingy look that seems unworthy of
gold-medal athletes. The performers,
distant from the camera, were captured
on a 75mm lens. "It's observational,"
Miller notes. "I didn't want [viewers] to
feel the presence of the camera." This
set was built in an old gymnasium at the
defunct West Mifflin Middle School,
outside of Pittsburgh.
"The trick with the wrestling
scenes was finding the correct angle,"
adds Fraser, who studied wrestling
coverage with second-unit cinematographer Adam Kimmel, ASC. "Often in
drama you cover yourself by shooting
multiple angles and then cutting. In this
case we happened upon the angle that
solved that scene and ran with it, so that
Bennett was able to hold on that fight
as it turns and shows darker undertones
in the brothers' relationship."
For du Pont's state-of-the-art
wrestling facility, the production used
the same location as the University of
Wisconsin gym, redesigning it based on
reference footage of the real Foxcatcher
gym. The crew projected 18K HMI
Fresnels with Plus Green gels at a steep
angle directly through the narrow
windows around the room. The ceiling
was rigged with Kino Flo 4' four-bank
fixtures fitted with Cool White tubes. A
simple switching system was used to
selectively control these fixtures,
depending on a scene's time of day and
how many characters were in the room.
To create some eye light, Fraser and
Kemp used a 1x1 Creamsource Mini
LED fixture fitted with a Chimera soft
box and gelled with Plus Green.
Fraser exposed the Foxcatcher
facility to be a half-stop brighter than
the Wisconsin gym. "Those rooms
both would have been fluorescent-lit -
just like an office, but with mats on the
floor," he notes. "To get fancy with the
lighting seemed inappropriate, but we
could create negative fill, bounce and a
more blooming light - which,
combined with production design,
differentiates Foxcatcher as a great place
to be versus the dull, dark, spotty place
in Wisconsin."
Much bigger were the tourna-

Director
Bennett Miller
(left) discusses
the hotel-room
scene with
Tatum, who
completed the
scene in
one take.

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