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lain opposite Tom Cruise’s hero in the gung-ho action hit, Mission: Impossible 2, is starring with Kate Winslet and Saffron Burrows in the
film, which is directed by Michael Apted.
It’s Apted’s first film since he ensured that audiences con- tinued to be shaken and stirred by the latest edition in the James Bond franchise, The World Is Not Enough.
The director has been working on Enigma for four years or so and he’s determined that he should make a movie that will stand up to expert scrutiny and also thoroughly entertain. Apted and director of photography, Seamus McGarvey BSC (High Fidelity, The War Zone) were particularly anxious that a series of flash-back sequences within Enigma ought to have a specific look, but, ini- tially, capturing that seemed elusive. Then Fuji, and a silk stocking, came to the rescue.
McGarvey explained that while the film is set smack in the middle of World War II - in 1943 when Dougray Scott and the rest of the team at Bletchley Park are trying to crack the Enigma code - there are sequences which flash-back to an earlier, idyllic love affair between Scott and Burrows.
“And we wanted these to have a different texture to the rest of the film. We tried different things, but they didn’t really work,” said
McGarvey. Then he bumped into Fuji’s Roger Sapsford, mentioned his dilemma and Sapsford suggested that a solution might be to use a then new stock, Fuji 400.
“So I ran a test and it was perfect for what I was looking for. This Fuji 400 stock had not been released at the time that we were due to shoot these scenes, so Roger made great efforts to get the stock to us,” added McGarvey, who revealed a bit of the trickery involved in creating the romantic mood that will be evident when Enigma is released in the autumn..
Photo above right: Dougay Scott
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