Name: How Robert Pattinson Goes Dark in 'The Lighthouse' | Anatomy of a Scene
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T04:30:49.000Z
Duration: 2 min 57 s
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"This is the evening of Robert Pattinson's character's

first night working as an assistant lighthouse

keeper on a mysterious and remote island.

And he's not used to the loud sound of the incessant fog

"After having a tense dinner with Willem Dafoe,

find locations that served the story, but also for control.

Some of the dramatic camera movements in the film

crane to do a lot of the shots we wanted to do.

"But this boom shot up the center of the lighthouse

And we wanted to create a mystery around the light,

the jewel inside the beacon of the lighthouse tower."

"The intention behind the cinematic language

of this sequence is to be somehow dreamlike

and one image leads to another in an elliptical fashion.

that the machine room where Rob is stoking the fire

you might get that impression, that it's like literally

And these panning into black and then dollying out

of black or pushing into black and then pulling out of black

are devices we use in sequences like this

often to sort of get inside our characters' heads,