Ridley Scott has returned to the theaters with Gladiator IIsequel to his successful film from 2000. On the project he met with director of photography John Mathieson, who in a recent interview has criticized the current way of working as a filmmaker.
Mathieson, who has worked with Scott on tapes like Robin Hood either the kingdom of heavengave an interview to the podcast The DocFix Documentary Storytelling in which he revealed that Scott’s shooting style she had become “lazy” because of technology.
“Now it’s the 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. In Gladiator II They just said ‘well, clean it up,'” she said. “He’s pretty impatient, so he likes to capture everything he can at once. It’s not very good for photograph“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 many cameras, but he just wants to do it all. have many cameras I don’t think it has improved the movies. There’s a bit of rush, rush, rush. That has changed in him,” he added.
However, Mathieson noted that “that’s how Scott wants to work,” adding: “People love his movies and He is Ridley Scott and he can do whatever he wants. People want to shoot with multiple cameras because they get a lot of performances and they put a lot of people there. But there is no care.”
The director of photography also concluded that, instead of taking greater care when filming, he now cinema consists of “generally covering things up” with the help of technology.