Los directores de fotografía son los héroes anónimos del cine. Si el escritor es el cerebro de una película y el director es su corazón, el director de fotografía son los ojos. La manipulación de la luz, la profundidad y la perspectiva permiten llevar incluso las historias más simples a la máxima belleza, haciendo que a menudo sean los héroes anónimos del cine.
Gregg Toland, Freddie Young, Jack Cardiff, Vittorio Storaro, Conrad Hall, Jordan Cronenweth, Christopher Doyle, Roger Deakins … la lista de los grandes es gloriosa. Para celebrar sus logros y desmitificar su trabajo, Film Studies 101 solicitó a 21 de los mejores directores de fotografía de cine que seleccionasen un momento en la historia del arte que les ha inspirado e influido.
Esta es el resultado que Empire Magazine comparte con todos:
The great Roger Deakins CBE is the man who made Skyfall shimmer like no other Bond movie, whose stellar work with the Coens began with Barton Fink ten Joel-and-Ethan movies ago, and who currently has 11 – count ‘em – Oscar nominations to his name.
Beloved of directors and all of his fellow cinematographers, it’s safe to say he’s high on the Christmas card list for most of the actors he’s lit, too. «Sometimes you get a cinematographer who shoots something, and you walk into their light, and they’re doing 50 per cent of my job,» Jake Gyllenhaal recently told <a href=»http://bit.ly/1ixHs0p» target=»blank»> The Hollywood Reporter.</a> «I walked into Roger Deakins’ lighting in two different movies, and I didn’t feel I had to give a performance.» The Academy has agreed and included his work on Prisoners in this year’s Oscars shortlist.
In short, Deakins is a giant of his field. He spoke to Empire from Sydney, 10,000 miles from his native Torquay, where he was working on Angelina Jolie’s wartime drama Unbroken…»
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