I rewatched the classic Robert Mitchum noir western Blood on the Moon last night. It's memorable for a crazy brutal (for 1940s) fight scene where Mitchum's long hair flails all over the place and some surreal, darkly photographed cattle stampede sequences. The director of photography was Nicholas Musuraca, also responsible for the lighting in the previous year's Mitchum noir classic Out of the Past. As I'd rather keep to a limited colour palette for my images, generally a small selection of black, white and greys, I've decided to steal Musuraca's mise en scene. This means improving my use of black shadows and contrasts. I'm going to screen grab from the film and pilfer away. Similarly with other western noir classics, like Pursued, Forty Guns, the Anthony Mann/Jimmy Stewart Westerns and Gregory Peck's The Gunfighter. Which I'm off to rewatch now...
Monday, November 24, 2008
Bob's Long Flailing Hair
I rewatched the classic Robert Mitchum noir western Blood on the Moon last night. It's memorable for a crazy brutal (for 1940s) fight scene where Mitchum's long hair flails all over the place and some surreal, darkly photographed cattle stampede sequences. The director of photography was Nicholas Musuraca, also responsible for the lighting in the previous year's Mitchum noir classic Out of the Past. As I'd rather keep to a limited colour palette for my images, generally a small selection of black, white and greys, I've decided to steal Musuraca's mise en scene. This means improving my use of black shadows and contrasts. I'm going to screen grab from the film and pilfer away. Similarly with other western noir classics, like Pursued, Forty Guns, the Anthony Mann/Jimmy Stewart Westerns and Gregory Peck's The Gunfighter. Which I'm off to rewatch now...
