“We can’t keep working in the shadows,” someone says halfway throughSkyfall.
“There are no more shadows.”
Roger Deakinswould beg to disagree.
Daniel Craig’s 007 emerges from the shadows in ‘Skyfall’.Columbia Pictures
It kind of encouraged me to do silhouettes and have people come in and out of darkness."
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“But also, he wanted this kind of iconic entrance forDaniel [Craig].
James Bond (Daniel Craig) arrives at a Macau casino in ‘Skyfall’.Columbia Pictures
What if we hold focus on the foreground and Daniel just walks into focus?'
So that was something that just developed on the day.
They’re really cool,'” the cinematographer says with a laugh.
The Macau casino set in ‘Skyfall’ features two massive dragon heads built at London’s Pinewood Studios.Columbia Pictures
I did, anyway," he adds with a laugh.
It was amazing," Deakins says.
And there’s also that very long interior Steadicam shot that takes Bond in.
Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem) in his glass-box prison in ‘Skyfall’.Columbia Pictures
It was all about building expectation and tension, I suppose."
I thought it was a great idea, and I really don’t know where it came from.
“Then you get to, well, how is it lit?”
Hot stuff: Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem) silhouetted against the burning eponymous house in ‘Skyfall’.Columbia Pictures
I thought, ‘Well, that’s pretty ridiculous.’
So that’s why it’s got a built-in light in the ceiling.
By then, I wanted total darkness," Deakins says.
And when I see it, I go, ‘Yeah, that was alright, really.'"
A statement as modest as his images aren’t.
