Powell realized that she prefers clashing colors that are tonally similar, but, when photographing in black-and-white you need contrasting tones. I talked to Ed Lachman about working with strong contrast and real texture that you could see.”

“When I put things together that looked good, they quite often turned out the same bland shade of gray when photographed. “The interesting discovery about working with black-and-white was that I couldn’t start off with color,” Powell said. There was also the central issue of black-and-white during Rose’s story. And because Rose and Ben are deaf, their worlds are more visual and full of distinct urban vibrations. We see all of the characters, textures, and details, right down to the earrings because it was viewed from Rose and Ben’s perspectives. Therefore, extras were not neutralized in the background. “There is a lot of wonder involved, even though it’s scary and intimidating.” “They are reacting to, apart from the enormity of the city itself, a seething mass of bodies,” she said. The extras for that world were a much broader range of types and characters.” “Wonderstruck” Mary CybulskiĪccording to Powell, dressing extras was especially important because of the impact on the two kids. It was slightly intimidating in a different way. There was high crime rate, there was unemployment, there was trash on the street.

To get into the silent movie ethos, Powell dressed Juliannne Moore’s fading star a la Lillian Gish in a movie inspired by “The Wind.” “When Rose arrived downtown in the financial district, the streets were absolutely packed with people, but everybody’s fairly well-dressed and intimidating in their splendor, in a sense. “The ’20s in New York were very optimistic, affluent, and thriving,” she said. Powell researched clothing in doc footage and street photography and was inspired by the contrasts. But both periods are grounded in reality and both children are coming from real places and they arrive at a very specific time.” “Wonderstruck” Sandy Powell “The number of crowds doubles from more than 300 each, and you had to separate your brain. “It was like working on two different films concurrently but with the same budget for one,” Powell said. Visually, it alternates between Rose’s black-and-white silent world and Ben’s gritty world. “Wonderstruck” concerns a mysterious connection between the deaf Rose (deaf actress Millicent Simmonds) and the recently deaf Ben (Oakes Fegley), both drawn to New York 50 years apart in search of a mother and a father. Richard Dreyfuss Criticizes Oscar Diversity Requirements, Defends Blackface in Laurence Olivier’s ‘Othello’

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