John Huston's 1972 Fat City has some excellent understated but effective cinematography. The film too is about a boxer who is finding life tough. Shot by Conrad Hall the film makes effective use of natural light, most notably in a wide shot of a bar whereby the camera, sitting at the back of the bar looking forward to the barely open windows, sees almost just the outlines of everything in the bar. This creates an excellent 'down in the dumps' type mood that I would love to capture for Bout. Further on through the scene in the bar, while the main character of the film, Stacey Keach's Billy, is talking to Susan Tyrrell's alcoholic bar fly Oma the 'lack of light' and presence of shading as well as shadow really help to emphasise the hopelessness of the situation of the characters which is something I really want to harness. I want to use this technique to show the bleak situation of Bouts' main character, the reason for his frustration.
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