Gordon willis
"You can decidethis movie has got a dark palette. But you can't spend two hours on a dark palette. . . So you've got this high-key, Kodachrome wedding going on. Now you go back inside and it's dark again. You can't,in my mind, put both feet into a bucket of cement and leave them there for the whole movie. It doesn't work. You must have this relativity."[1]
The director Francis Ford Coppola once said of Willis,“He has a natural sense of structure and beauty, not unlike a Renaissance artist”[5], while Willis was praised for his capacity to use "painterliness" to define "not just the look but the very meaningand feel of a film".[1] Speaking of contemporary film-making in 2004, Willis said:
"I’m delighted that people can fly, dogs can talk, and anything destructive can be fashioned on the screen, but muchof what’s being done lacks structure or taste. As I’ve asked in the past: can anyone give me the definition of a camera? It’s a tool, a means to an end. So is a light, and everything else you can pileon your back. They’re all meant to transpose the written word into moving pictures that tell a story."[6]
Another trademark is his preference for filming at the magic hour before twilight, when thesun is low and creates a golden glow. Willis created the trope of warm ambers to denote nostalgic glow for the past, for the young Vito sequences of The Godfather Part II; many films since then...
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