A beautifully worked out script won the Oscar.
In the scene above there are three big lights creating the window shafts. Inside the light is bounced through muslin to soften it. Leo's close-up has a 'low glow' bounce off the floor. Robert Richardson's key team comprises key grip Chris Centrella, gaffer Ian Kincaid and camera assistant Gregor Tavenner. Richardson is his own operator. If you look at this article from American Cinematographer magazine, so much work went into the lighting of this film - even the Freeway at night had giant lights on it, and the hardest scene was apparently the Mansons in the car in very very low light...
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| According to ASC: 'Nine 80' condors help to illuminate a stretch of freeway that the production closed down from dusk to dawn.' Amazing! |
On reflection I do love Brad Pitt's performance, tough and easy-going. The Academy perhaps gave it to him over Hanks as the latter had won it twice. (Pitt also won an Oscar as one of the producers of 12 Years a Slave.)
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