A movie that I watched recently that I thought had a very interesting approach to its filming is the Godfather. I got the idea to view this film after we watched that documentary about lighting, and having not seen it before, decided that it would be a good choice for this assignment. The first thing I had noticed specifically was the lighting of the film. It was mentioned in the documentary, but its yellowish tint I feel really dated the film in a good way. It made you really feel that the events were taking place during the forties. The way the lighting worked, it seemed to mimic old photographs and it made me feel like I was watching the actual story that I could speculate about when looking at an old photo.
Another lighting technique that I noticed was the use of shadows on the different characters. In the scenes where the Corleones or multiple families were meeting and doing business, the dp used lots of shadows on their faces to give a more ominous feel to the characters. I liked to how in the documentary the dp said that someone was concerned because you couldn’t see Marlon Brando’s eyes and his response, “exactly.”
I liked too how as the movie progressed the used less of the yellow tint in order to signify that time had been progressing multiple years as the movie went on. Aside from the lighting, I just wanted to say how much
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