American Cinematographer - October 1986 - 30

Photos by

Randy Tepper

Calling the Shots for Armed & Dangerous
Produced by Brian Grazer &
Directed by Mark L. Lester
Fred Schuler, ASC, director

of photography

By Samir Hachem
Fred

Schuler, ASC, works a lot.
Crazy, Gloria, Arthur, King of
Comedy, Woman in Red, Fletch,
Maxie, Wise Guys - they've all
Stir

been comedies. This

summer

he

photographed two more, an ac¬
tion comedy with John Candy and
Eugene Levy called Armed and
Dangerous, and a "comedy
chiller" directed by Gene Wilder
called Haunted Honeymoon.
of the films
Schuler has shot have been suc¬
cessful (He shrugs and reasons that
this reflects more on the state of
Not all

the

industry than it does on his
work, and says that of what he's
proud among his films he's very
proud.) He also asserts the better

the director, the better the look of
the film. In a director, says Schuler,
to find a visual under¬
standing of what he wants, to give
you the ideas, and then to give you
enough creative freedom that you
can enhance all the things he's
thinking about. A director like
Marty (Scorsese) understands the
image and knows how to manipu¬

"you hope

late it."

What makes up the
drama of a scene, Schuler believes,
is

equally divided between

com¬

position and lighting. He has spe¬
cific ideas about source lighting

keep this communicated to
operator," he says. However,
working on a mainstream Holly¬
wood production, the one thing
he never forgets is that the stars
have to look good. "This is not
reality," Schuler reminds. "No
matter what 1 do, my job in pho¬
tography is aiding, not distracting
to

your

from the actors."
It is perhaps

this refresh¬
ing mix of philosophy and pragma¬

tism which draws producers and
directors to him. Schuler's images
easy to look at, uncluttered.
Although they practically all exist

are

and

in comic

the

pressed

backlighting. "You can use
framing of a shot to
psychological advantage. You have

are

films,

to

American

Cinematographer

October 1986

one

would be hard

call them funny. They

landscapes and battlefields for

comic action.
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James Keach



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