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Another Stakeout:
Surveillance with a Smile
Roy Wagner, ASC and director John Badham
stake out Vancouver.
by Stephen Pizzello

On

bone-chilling March evening
the production crew
of Another Stakeout, the sequel to the
surprise action-comedy hit of 1987,
has brought its work ethic to bear
a

in Vancouver,

on one

of the film's most elaborate

a completely refur¬
bished waterfront complex that fea¬
tures two full-size warehouses and

setpieces

-

specially rigged, collapsible dock.
Treading across the dock's watera

slicked wooden boards, crew mem¬
bers put the finishing touches on

the

26

picture's climactic

gag,

during

a

top-of-the-line Mercedes convert¬
they have sworn to safeguard

ible

is dunked in

a

river.

As electric drills and

dry other

power tools whine and
buzz around him, director of pho¬

selves.

tography Roy Wagner, ASC, insu¬
lated by a heavy-duty olive-green
parka, surveys the scene with pro¬
fessional aplomb. Asked to com¬
pare his photographic approach to

shoot, I decided that being in
Canada in the middle of winter,

that of John Seale, ACS, on the origi¬

cast

nal Stakeout, Wagner's face contorts
into a genial grimace. "John Seale's

which detectives Chris Lecce (Rich¬
ard Dreyfuss) and Bill Reimers

a

(Emilio Estevez) watch in horror as

photography to his. In

American

August 1993

Cinematographer

sun¬

dealing with a compromise in that
the story has its own requirements
and the actors have already estab¬
lished a look and style for them¬

great

shouldn't

cinematographer;
even

I

try to compare my
a way,

I'm

"At the

with the
zon,

sun

beginning of the

low on the hori¬
probably spend a

very

I would

great deal of time with dark

over¬

days. The daylight color tem¬
perature is significantly higher than
what we commonly photograph,
so I
thought, 'O.K., for the most part
I've been given a cold blue light.
Even if I use 85s, it's still going to



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