the table in the opposite direction as they sweep the money into bags, and land in a tight two shot on Ben and Sienna as he gags her. The shot ends with the camera panning the boys out of the room. Because there were so many moving parts and variables to the shot, it took a while to get right—seventeen takes in total, but we were pleased with the final take. Another memorable shot started with the wife of Ben’s character sitting on a couch. Slow pan through their child playing on the floor to Ben sitting in a chair. Ben reaches down to pick up his child, and then stands up in front of the lounge windows. We see Chris Cooper approaching the house through the window behind Ben. He starts firing at Ben, Ben takes cover, whip pan to Ben’s wife, whip pan back to Ben scrambling
on the floor to a dresser where he grabs a gun. Stand him up and follow him outside, over the shoulder, as he fires back at Chris Cooper. We see Chris go down, Ben turns into a close-up, and we lead him back into the lounge where Ben’s wife is on the ground with the crying child. Ben crouches down and cradles his wife while the kid wanders off crying. I decided to keep only the kid’s legs in the shot as I found it more dramatic and disturbing to see his legs moving through the frame, and hear his crying but not see his face. Take two worked really well so we decided to go with it, and that’s the one in the movie. CO: What have you been up to since Live by Night finished shooting? Since Live by Night, I worked on the upcoming film The Mummy, starring Tom Cruise,
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which was shot in London and some beautiful locations in Namibia. And I just finished shooting Suburbicon with Matt Damon. It’s directed by George Clooney, and happily shot right here in Los Angeles.
TRIVIA: Cinematographer Robert Richardson wanted to shoot the film with the set of Ultra Panavision 70 anamorphic lenses he had recently used on The Hateful Eight (2015), but Panavision had already rented them for use on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). Elle Fanning as Loretta Figgis in Warner Bros. Pictures' dramatic crime thriller LIVE BY NIGHT, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Pictures release. Photo by Claire Folger
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