American Cinematographer - December 2000 - 74

Dark Shadows
Top: Director E.
Elias
peers

Merhige
through a

camera

while

production
designer
Assheton Gorton

(center, with
hands

on

hips)

surveys the
scene. Center:

Bogue takes a
light reading on
location in

Luxembourg,
while Malkovich
and John Aden

Gillet (with

clipboard) await
their

cue.

Bottom: Murnau

coddles his

the

making of Nosferatu to Nosferatu

itself. "But then I did

some

tests

with

Kodak Vision 800T

[5289] before
meeting Lou, and I loved it!" Merhige
recalls. "After I met Lou,
bunch of

did

we

a

with four different

tests

film stocks, and there was no ques¬
tion that the reds
800T

were

got with the
remarkably different than
we

the reds from all of the other stocks;
the

images began to hark back to
paintings by Caravaggio
or
Rembrandt. Even so, everybody at
Kodak said there wasn't a legitimate
cinematographer on the planet who
would shoot

an

entire movie

on

this

stock!"'

temperamental,
undead star.
a

Bogue was willing to go out on
limb, however, and the results were

astounding. "I just said, 'You've got to
for it. This is what this new stock
was made for,"' Bogue says. "We shot
Barry Lyndon with candles, and that
was 30
years ago! But even today,
go

with modern stock and modern

lenses, people just haven't got the
[guts] to do it! I felt we had a tall

advantage using that fast stock for
interiors and night scenes, because
we didn't have to use such
big lights,
and it's very rich in terms of the
blacks. I didn't need hardware every¬

where, and

didn't need such

a big
lazy man's stock
you've got to have eyes in the back
of your head, making sure that no
one leaves a door open when you're
shooting on stage in daylight. For the
crew.

we

But it's not

a

-

exteriors,

we

used Kodak's 200 ASA

stock [Vision 200T

5274], which was
quite good in terms of matching."
Two castles in Luxembourg
served

as

the

castle

of

Orlok

(Murnau's version of Dracula);
was

used for interior

scenes

one

and the

other for exteriors.

Bogue worked
closely with Gorton on the castle
interiors
particularly on the exte¬
rior courtyard, where Eddie Izzard
(playing
actor
Gustav
von
Wangenheim as hapless lawyer
Thomas Flutter) first glimpses the
-

reclusive Schreck

as

Rather than

72

December 2000

Orlok.

slavishly attempt-



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