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art teaser, part pop quiz, the Ptrailer for this year’s 54th BFI
London Film Festival was an ingenious compendium of great movie lines from some classic
movies of the past four decades, ranging from Badlands, Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now to The Last King Of Scotland and No Country For Old Men.
The cinematic joke was that they were uttered this time round in mostly rather mundane London settings - from suburban streets to the Thames - far removed from their often exotic original locations and, of course, minus the expensive star power. The trailer, featuring no fewer than nine
staged scenes across its 100-second running time was the work of ace British commercials director Chris Palmer and one of his regular collaborators, the thrice Oscar- nominated French cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel ASC, AFC, whose distinguished long-form work includes Amélie, A Very Long Engagement and Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince.
It was very much a labour of
love, meaning they did it for free,
for Delbonnel and the Gorgeous Productions team. Explains Delbonnel: “I think I’ve probably done about 10 commercials with Chris; he’s
a brilliant director and we get on very well. My theory was: I work a lot with Gorgeous so I owe them somehow.
“The rules of the game were: available light only, no track - basically nothing. We had two days only, moving from location to location, shooting whatever happened even if it was raining because we had no weather day so couldn’t change anything anyway.
It all seemed to work. In fact, the only location where I had to light was in a casino where the light was rather dull and I wanted to try and match what Robert Richardson did with Casino.
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