American Cinematographer - November 1987 - 64

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The Dead
in

Study
Light and Shadow
-

a

Produced by Weiland Schulz-Keil
Directed by John Huston
Fred Murphy, director of photography

by David Jon Wiener
John Huston

once tried his hand
writing; in 1929 he even got a
short story called Fool published
in The American Mercury.

prise. So I

at

ect.

Around this same time, he read
The Dead, the closing story in

stantly said yes."

James Joyce's Dubliners.

the making of John Huston's last
film. He died August 28 at New¬

"I didn't think of it
material for a movie] at

[as

all,

then," Huston recalls. "I didn't
think of

myself as ever having
anything to do with films, really.
"Actually, while I was
making Moby Dick, I remember
someone suggesting that The
Dead be made into

a

film. How¬

hardly came under the
heading of commercial enter¬
ever,

62

it

American

Cinematographer

pushed the proj¬
eventually, Weiland
Schulz-Keil, the producer, came
to

never

But

me

with the idea and I in¬

Thus, the beginning

of

port, R.I., near the site of Mr.
North, a picture in which he was

playing under the direction of
his son, Danny Huston. He had
become ill in late July and his
friend, Robert Mitchum, had as¬
part.
The Dead, then, has be¬
come the final, if not the most

sumed the

significant, of
November 1987

a

body of work

that would challenge the most
intrepid among filmmakers
everywhere.
The original short story
is shot through with detailed de¬
scriptions of light in practically
every scene. There is "dull
yellow light" brooding over
houses, a floor that ".
glittered
with beeswax under a heavy
chandelier," "roaring" furnace
light, and "ghostly light from
street lamps" weakly illuminat¬
.

.

ing "silver and dark" snowflakes.
At

a

crucial moment, the main

female character

(Gretta) stands

listening to music under a
".
dusty fanlight.
the flame
.

.

.

.



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