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Vibrant colours.
I agree about the awful yellow look. It ruins the film and looks terrible.
Theres a special feature on the blu ray about the making of the DotD fesitval sequence.
Now that looks good. Its what the film sequence should have looked like, cinematography wise.
The "painted" scenes in Spectre are really one of the main factors pulling me out of film, particularly the opening. It doesn't look like reality and is a cheap effort at trying to remind the audience the location is "hot".
The only thing that makes any sense at all is if it was done to cover up shoddy special effects work. I see these filters a lot in the heavy CGI films, including those from Marvel/DC & other franchises.
A filterless SP with heightened saturation would've been beautiful, with palettes that matched great camera composition to create a perfect marriage.
Source: https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/zomergasten/kijk/afleveringen/2023/hoyte-van-hoytema.html
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Zomergasten is interview video program where the guest of week doing a interview (in Dutch) about work and private life including video material that person choose too on bigger screen behind them. After long time with earlier presenter this year movie get new one and go for comedian Theo Maassen. Possible going to talk about Spectre, Let The Right One In and Christopher Nolan.
Hoyte van Hoytema was not only Dutch link with Spectre, costume designer Jany Temime who also working on Skyfall (And in 2014 in Rotterdam i have seen some of the costume's she made for the movie at Kunsthall Event).
This is a good example of what I mean. We're in the desert, but why does everyone need to be dressed in desert-like neutrals?
Glen's Bond movies weren't known for their striking visuals but even TLD's desert scenes pop more than Spectre's.
Another example. The contrast is better here but why does everyone need to be dressed in black?
They were obviously trying to channel Blofeld's lab at Piz Gloria in OHMSS but this is what that looked like:
I'm not sure how much of this was due to Mendes and how much was due to Hoytema; I think both because it looks very similar to Skyfall, but I've also seen a few of Hoytema's other movies and I always thought they looked dull, especially Interstellar. He's just not very interesting in terms of lighting and focus.
I'm not a huge Skyfall fan but Deakins had a few amazing shots in that one, like Bond's reflection suddenly appearing in the glass to Patrice with the changing light. There wasn't anything like that in SP.
On a well calibrated set, I think it looks pretty gorgeous. But that’s just my opinion.
Pressing a few keys today (or washing film with dye yesterday) is lazy. Pick your lenses & filters or just deal with colours as they are.
Oh brother.
In Mexico, Sam and Hoyte waited for the most overcast weather they could get and added smoke to the air to help achieve the look they wanted. These are not lazy filmmakers, and Spectre is as beautiful a film as any we've seen in this series. I don't think anything beats Morocco in this film, L'Americain in particular.
One's simplistic belief that all films should just have vibrant colors no matter the theme or the desire of the filmmakers just doesn't mean something is bad or lazy.
So the exuberant megalomaniac with a false claim to nobility has a colorful, ornate office, and the icy woman hiding from her past is in that one? Could anything be less bewildering?
And we're wondering why the two troubled souls who share traumas and defense mechanisms are both wearing black, and not say, contrasting pastels? Primary colors?
I’m mixed on it personally. I much prefer SF’s cinematography, although I’d say I actually prefer SP’s to NTTD’s (I find the latter a bit too sleek and surface level - beautiful no doubt but not the very deep).
I'm part of your small club too @GoldenGun
Though SF has a few standout scenes visually, I do prefer SP more muted tones.
It's good to see Hoyte getting some praise for his work as he's extremely varied in his approaches to fit each project that he works on. I personally feel he deserved his Oscar back in 2012 for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which was just utterly marvelous.
That was a great one too, as was Ad Astra, I thought.
I agree. I mean, imagine if OHMSS had blue washes to make everything seem cold, or if Goldfinger had golden tones all over it....
Exactly! Well put.
Yeah, I am in that club too. SP looks and sounds better than SF, IMO. Both DPs delivered amazing work, but Van Hoytema's work is my favorite.
Funnily that’s what I thought they did with the Special Edition DVD for GF, giving it a “golden” tone. It wasn’t until I saw the older masters and remasters that I saw the movie was more naturally toned. You can see the difference in the shot with Jill on the bed sheets.
https://007homemedia.blogspot.com/2019/11/goldfinger-1964.html?m=1