(Europa Press). Ridley Scott is back in theaters with Gladiator IIsequel to his successful 2000 film. In the project he has met with cinematographer John Mathieson, who in a recent interview has criticized the current way of working as a filmmaker. Mathieson, who has worked with Scott on such films as Robin Hood and Kingdom of Heaven, gave an interview to The DocFix Documentary Storytelling podcast in which he revealed that Scott’s way of shooting has become “lazy” because of technology.“Now it’s computer graphics that have to clean up for leaving things in the shot, cameras in the shot, microphones in the shot, parts of the set hanging, shadows. On Gladiator II they would just say ‘well , clean it up,'” he related.“He’s quite impatient, so he likes to capture as much as he can at once. That’s not very good for photography,” he noted about the director. “Look at his older films and you’ll see that going deeper into things was a big part of lighting. You can’t do that with a lot of cameras, but he just wants to do it all.
Having a lot of cameras I don’t think has improved the films…. There’s a hurry, hurry, hurry . Eso ha cambiado en él”, agregó. Sin embargo, Mathieson señaló que “así es como quiere trabajar” Scott, agregando: “A la gente le encantan sus películas y él es Ridley Scott y puede hacer lo que quiera. La gente quiere filmar con varias cámaras porque obtienen muchas actuaciones y ponen a mucha gente allí. Pero no hay ningún cuidado”. El director de fotografía concluyó además que, en lugar de tener un mayor cuidado a la hora de rodar, ahora el cine consiste en “generalmente tapar cosas” con ayuda de la tecnología.
