How Rodrigo Prieto Balanced ‘Flower Moon’ and ‘Barbie’ and Became Hollywood’s Most-Trusted Cinematographer: ‘He Always Delivers… Absolutely Nothing Stops Him’
22.02.2024 - 17:56
/ variety.com
Martin Scorsese was making “Silence,” his 2016 drama about a pair of Jesuit priests spreading the gospel in Japan, a typhoon hit the area, bringing with it biblical showers. As the filmmaker braced himself for news that the bad weather would mean he’d have to abandon plans to shoot that day, there was a rap on his trailer door. There stood Rodrigo Prieto, Scorsese’s long-time cinematographer, outfitted in heavy rain gear.
Despite the deluge, he was radiating optimism. “We’re almost ready,” Prieto reassured the director. “Just a few more minutes.” Prieto’s calm demeanor and his commitment to getting the work done, no matter the elemental hurdles, left Scorsese speechless.
“He always delivers — he interprets what I’m asking for and he brings it to life,” Scorsese marvels. “He’s always positive and he thinks and works quickly. And absolutely nothing stops him.” That’s certainly the case on “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Prieto’s latest collaboration with Scorsese.
It’s a ripped-from-history saga, one that depicts a wealthy Osage community that is systematically murdered for and robbed of oil rights. Making the movie left the duo laboring for 100 days in the oppressive heat of the Oklahoma plains. It was a challenging shoot, made more complicated by its narrative daring.
Prieto and Scorsese embraced a fiendishly inventive approach to telling the story — one that mixes in scenes of shocking violence with newsreels and radio shows that are straight out of its 1920s setting. It’s also a work that seamlessly moves between epic vistas of the wide-open prairie with intimate domestic scenes of a couple who share a dangerous bond. “With Scorsese, things are very intuitive,” Prieto says during a long chat in a utilitarian West L.A.
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