Lighting

Tim Lucas

This is a very nice example of Massimo Dallamano's colored lighting gels helping to tell the story. He gives us warm amber light for the living and blue light for the dead in the foreground. And that same blue surrounds Indio's little bubble of warmth, implying that he's surrounded by death. Cucilio is awakened and brought in, and we think Indio and Niño will misinform him about Mortimer and Manco and claim that they committed the murder.

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Tim Lucas

The castanets in Morricone's orchestra provide his death rattle. This diagonal slash across the screen dividing the frame between the inhabited interior and the ascent into exterior evening, an ascent into the next life for Cacilio, adds a great deal to the scene. The lighting makes an eloquent comment about what it means to be under El Indio's protection and without it.

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We cut for the first time to Bond, and his cigarette in his mouth and his famous lighter in his hand. And he says, Bond, flick with the lighter, James Bond. Now, originally, he said, Bond, James Bond, and then lit his cigarette, and it wasn't funny. And it was absolutely this, absolute timing of the thing, Bond, James Bond, and it suddenly was a laugh, you see.

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