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Gary Hymns - Key Grip (UK)

Team Deakins

CHAPTER

The 50-Foot Technocrat

"I think my question about it, whether it was going to become a little ostentatious," he says. "It was that balance between feeling like you're with the character, but also showing the scope of this new environment." The film's biggest moment is when Scofield enters the white trench and then reveals the landscape behind him. A 50-foot camera crane had to be set up on top of 200 feet of track before they could get close enough for 'the big old shot' It took three people to take off one piece of scaffolding - no one dropped it.

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