![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, there’s a place for total naturalism. There’s not that stylization and I think there’s a place for that. I used to love film noir and black-and-white cinematography, especially people like James Wong Howe or Ossie Morris, their use of light. Is there a style of moviemaking that doesn’t exist anymore that you wish you could have been a part of?ĭeakins: I do see films moving in a direction of everything’s got to be so naturalistic and softly lit. You can’t control the weather.” I said, “But, yeah, everyone’s looking at me.”ĪP: You’ve said you wished you could have made a film with John Huston (“The Maltese Falcon,” “Key Largo”). Sam would say to me, “It’s not your responsibility, Rog. Like on “1917,” that was a huge pressure because we didn’t want to shoot anything in the sun. When it was wet, it was going to rain.ĪP: Directors must often turn to you to ask when the sun is coming out.ĭeakins: Yeah, that’s one of the big pressures on a set, especially when you’re shooting a lot of exteriors. My granny used to hang seaweed in the back of the house. We had to use whether the seaweed was wet or dry. I never had those when I was a teenager going fishing. If you can read them, you know what’s coming. Nowadays, you can just log on to the Met Office surface pressure charts. Especially down here in Dedham because I’ve lived here most of my life. Do you have a good sense for it?ĭeakins: Yeah, I do pretty well. It’s all connected.ĪP: You've surely spent many hours on film productions waiting for the weather to change. In fact, I was fishing today out in my boat. Mainly meteorology came because I spent a lot of my time as a kid fishing. When I went to art college, in the first year you had to do some other discipline as well as art. Where’s the sea? I like that sense of the beyond, I suppose.ĪP: Is it true you once studied meteorology?ĭeakins: I did, yeah, as a kid. I find it hard shooting in New Mexico or something for four months. ![]() I don’t think I could live far from the ocean. We mainly live in L.A., but in Santa Monica so we’re only a few blocks from the beach. I grew up in Torquay and we have a place in Devon. ![]()
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