
Turning The Tables - Shawshank Redemption
Team Deakins
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I'd Love to Get to the End of the Prison
I noticed that there are quite a few more telephoto lens shots in this sequence than the rest of the movie. I thought we did it more with Red, really. You wanted it to feel slightly more romantic, but also slightly more observational. The backgrounds are not really period. So there was that kind of quality to it as well. They're very limited location to work in. But yes, it is a more, if you're, I have not romantic, it's not the right word, suppose. It maybe it is, you know, that exterior. And now you come into this room, which that shot reminds me of Barton Fink when he first walks in his new digs
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