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Lighting
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One of the things that seems to me so interesting is that it really, it begins much more like, almost like an experimental film. Yeah. It doesn't look like a Hollywood film at all. It seems much more like, and it doesn't seem like an American film, really. Well, to me, I think it does, it is redolent of RKO's particular kind of gothicism, the lighting and the production values at RKO. But it's a fantasy, it's a dream.
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And it's like Joseph K. in the trial coming before the courts of law. There's this strongly expressionist lighting similar to the stuff we saw in the projection room as we get into this room. And it's all about money being transformed into some kind of spirituality and myth. It's like you're bringing forth the holy tables to be observed here.
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to the chapters in Mr. Thatcher's manuscript. That lighting, by the way, was similar to Welles' stage lighting, and it's meant to be a kind of allusion to the Nuremberg Lights. Exactly, yeah. This is like from his Julius Caesar, right? Yes, yeah. And so it's about fascism. But you know, that's the funny thing about this film, and again, why it has the status it partly has, is it's all...
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