The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot
Paul Bunyan statue; passing witnesses; Jerry driving past the attendant; opening whiteout
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- Deakins’s cinematography is admired for the whiteout landscape, ambiguous horizons, opening image and introduction of the criminals; the red woodchipper scene is interpreted as a payoff to the white palette.
- Great-shot candidates are the nighttime Paul Bunyan statue, witnesses passing the trooper, Jerry driving past the attendant and the opening whiteout.