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Above: Michael
Gershman,
camera
operator manages
hand-held shot
over
Murphy stand-in
with knife. Right:
Michael Ritchie at
left and Thorin
behind camera,
prepare
dolly shot.
raphy status when Thorin, abetted
by Ritchie, put him in charge of
second unit photography. "And
then I promoted my assistant, Rob
Hahn, to be operator on the "B"
camera,
and he'll become
my regu¬
lar operator on my next film,"
Thorin says. "It creates a good op¬
portunity for the guys to get a
chance to move up."
Thorin is highly im¬
pressed with the visual effects ex¬
perts at ILM. "It's just amazing
what they can do! There are cer¬
tain things I have to do and sets I
have to shoot so there'll be some¬
what of a match and the special
effects people can also shoot there
and do their thing."
54
ing at up-angles, I think we caught
the mood, making it scary."
In another part of the
audience's imagination or maybe
it's Eddie's imagination - it's not
stage were more of the posts,
which were built much taller than
those on the main set, towering
toward the black-draped ceiling.
"The black is to serve as limbo,"
Thorin explains. "It may be in the
A
American
Cinematographer
part of the movie."
double was used when the
character appeared on the higher
reality, but it's
stunt
pilings, which
infinity.
seem to go
into
Bob
Upon completing princi¬
pal photography there was a hiatus
for the cinematographer while
some of the
editing was done. Fol¬
lowing this, he returned to photo¬
graph insert shots. For Thorin and
his crew there were also a few days
more work in Marin
County,
shooting blue screen elements
with Eddie Murphy.
"It's all unrealistic,"
Thomas, Thorin's
longtime operative cameraman,
Thorin admits. "It was a fun film
to work on, it's far-fetched and it's
graduated
fun!"
January 1987
to
director of photog¬
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