How Cinematography In 'Casino Royale' Revolutionized The Bond Franchise | The Art Of Film

Though I agree with the video that the cinematography for Craig's run has generally upped the game in cinematography for the franchise, it's dismissal of pre-Craig cinematography will no doubt piss a lot of you off. So, get angry, I guess.

They did no research because the no.1 rule in EON's original playbook was to make everything visible and Cubby would tell every cinematographer to keep everything in focus and with relatively flat lighting so the money showed up onscreen. He hated "fancy" tricks but both he and Harry stayed out of they way visually otherwise leaving it to director and cinematographer.

Bad pre 06? What the literal hell? CR06 is like anything else of its era. I can understand not liking the 80's period due to the contrasty look and Lamont's sets being more realistic/plain at times-but most of the series doesn't look as good as it did theatrically because of the video masters.

But geez they don't understand cinematography if they're going to call the 60's era bad. Ted Moore did so much with so little and the sharpness of his Bonds is really something. TB in particular for being the first scope film is so well shot many back in the day noticed how good it looked in standard 35mm compared even to 70mm films-and then he won the Oscar shortly thereafter! Freddie Young then shot YOLT which is staggering! WTF is wrong with people? DN-FRWL-GF are beautifully shot films!

Spy has great visuals in it-plus how the hell would someone today photograph a monster Ken Adam set? MR is almost entirely freaking gorgeous.

I could go on and on. Hell I wouldn't trade one shot of the trend following CR06 especially with its awful now very dated color grading for a single properly lensed shot of GE which as time goes by looks better and better. TND looks great for how they had to shoot around the Carver interior sets in scope and light the video walls etc.