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Turning the Tables - Sicario

Team Deakins

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Is There a Country for Old Men?

I don't think there's any direct reference to any other film really. Danny was kind of very kind of specific and he, that opening shot as it is now, you know, the pan with the SWAT guys going down to the track house. He really wanted that to have a specific kind of blown out kind of end of the world look. And then after that, okay, we said, we got to embrace the skies. They're there in every single scene. We couldn't get away from it even if you wanted to. It works for the story. When you start putting all the other elements together, like in other words, something that's beautiful on location, wow, that

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