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SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
“I LIKE THE EFFECT ON COLOURS WHEN THE CONTRAST CURVE OF THE NEG IS PUSHED A LITTLE.”
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Boyle had never been to India before let alone tried to make a film in the seething environs of Mumbai. “We only took about 10 people, the rest were mostly Bollywood crew. That was the right decision. You can’t really go over there as an army anymore.”
One of his most trusted right hand men was Danish based British cinematographer Anthony Dod Man- tle with whom he’s previously worked with on Millions and 28 Days Later.
To capture the exotic locations – ranging from slums and smart high- rises to a fiercely lit TV studio – and general bustle, they work on a mix- ture of film and digital using a wide range of equipment and technologies.
According to producer Chris- tian Colson: “Wherever we could, we shot real locations and we shot what was scripted, and what was scripted was often pretty complex and took us to a fabulous range of different places. The film’s a fairy tale, and like all the best fairy tales, it’s got light and shade.” QUENTIN FALK
Slumdog Millionaire, which opens in the UK on January 23, 2009, was partly originated on 35mm Fujicolor ETERNA 500T 8573, ETERNA 250D 8563, Reala 500D 8592, and Super F-64D 8522
“When they first sent me the script,” Boyle recalls, “they de- scribed it as a film about Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? I certainly didn’t want to make a film about that. Then I saw it was written by Simon Beau- foy and they hadn’t mentioned that. After 10 to 15 pages I knew I was in. It wasn’t ever a question of ‘what’s the deal” It was, ‘let’s just make it’.”
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Photo main previous page: still from Slumdog Millionaire; main this page: Dev Patel in Mumbai; above l-r: Dev Patel and Freida Pinto; Patel and Anish Kapour; Director Danny Boyle setting up a shot; Patel in Police Station scene