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Roger Deakins

Also referred to as Deakins, deacons

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Skyfall The Rewatchables
Skyfall

Who Won the Movie?

James Bond, the franchise

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Approx. transcript time · 01:31:47Read transcript
  • The opening answers are Barbara Broccoli and Sam Mendes, whose career the film resets: he was nowhere after Away We Go, went on to Spectre and 1917 with Roger Deakins, and took a franchise property to more awards and more money.
  • The film also rejuvenates the Bond franchise, reminding people of its possibilities as the twenty-fifth film approaches amid franchise and spy overload, Brexit and an old conservative character; it is not the same movie without Bardem, with Jeffrey Rush (as transcribed), Johnny Depp and canceled actors imagined in his place.
  • One host initially sticks with Mendes, another names the Broccoli family and James Bond the franchise, and the Mendes voter switches, convinced: James Bond continuing as a powerful force for moviegoers.
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No Country for Old Men The Rewatchables
No Country for Old Men

Half-Assed Internet Research

The Yeats title, differences from the novel, McCarthy’s reaction, low shooting ratio, Fargo parallels, injuries, neighboring production, custom weaponry, and body count

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Approx. transcript time · 00:55:35Read transcript
  • The title comes from the opening of W. B. Yeats’s “Sailing to Byzantium.”
  • Carla Jean reacts more strongly in the novel, and a young woman by the pool has a larger role that helps expose Llewelyn.
  • Cormac McCarthy reportedly chuckled a few times at a screening, which the Coens accepted as approval. — Bill Simmons
  • Roger Deakins said the production exposed roughly 250,000 feet of film rather than the 700,000 to one million common on less-planned shoots. — Bill Simmons
  • The Coens minimized conscious Fargo parallels despite clear affinities with their earlier Texas crime film Blood Simple.
  • Brolin broke his shoulder in a motorcycle accident after getting the role and concealed the severity; the character’s gunshot injury helped filming. — Bill Simmons
  • There Will Be Blood’s oil-fire smoke once halted No Country nearby, and an unverified set anecdote has Daniel Day-Lewis biking through while shouting.
  • Chigurh’s suppressed shotgun was constructed specially because that suppressor did not exist, and the estimated body count is 22. — Bill Simmons
No Country for Old Men The Rewatchables
No Country for Old Men

What’s Aged the Best?

The ending, timeless western form, title, Texas setting, lack of music, Brolin’s arrival, coin motif, Bell’s exhaustion, and Roger Deakins’s images

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Approx. transcript time · 00:38:28Read transcript
  • Bell’s sudden dream ending moved from baffling on first viewing to the host’s clearest aged-best selection, especially his admission that he will not risk everything against what he cannot understand. — Bill Simmons
  • The 1980 border story operates as a timeless western about the end of the West and a lawman discovering he cannot protect people. — Chris Ryan
  • Chigurh’s first murders immediately establish an almost elemental sociopath, and the title perfectly names Bell’s realization.
  • The harsh Marfa landscape and old roadside businesses feel both specific and outside time; Ellis’s isolated shack embodies where Bell fears he is headed.
  • Sparse music, sound, patient images, and Tommy Lee Jones arriving after every major event let process and aftermath carry the story. — Bill Simmons
  • Josh Brolin’s long-delayed emergence as an A-list presence is praised as perfect casting for a capable man rather than visible star acting. — Bill Hader
  • The coin toss expresses fate without excusing Chigurh, while Bell’s feeling of being overmatched captures a universal fear of the world moving past you.
  • Deakins’s cinematography, editing, production design, lightning, desert scale, and minimal setups make the film a continuing visual reference for prestige crime work. — Bill Hader
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