Key Highlights
- “Early on, you had this idea of the light changing a lot,” says Yedlin, “where we feel the clouds coming in front of the sun and all these different changes within scenes.” Related Stories News 'September 5's Tim Fehlbaum To Direct Remake Of French Thriller 'Black Box' For Netflix News 'The Lincoln Lawyer' Sets Season 4 Premiere & Drops First-Look Photos Watch on Deadline Josh O’Connor and Daniel Craig in ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ John Wilson/Netflix Johnson also says Wake Up Dead Man is “more of a lighting movie than a camera movie” compared to the other two films.
- “I feel like this is the most lighting movie of the three.” A lot of the lighting changes are used to highlight characters within conversation but, in keeping with the Catholic church setting, light was mostly used to backlight characters in moments of clarity or darken scenes in moments of despair.
- “I grew up in Colorado where the clouds moved very fast and lots of times you’d be having a conversation in the living room with your family, and suddenly it would be like God turned the lights out and just things go from very sunny to very dark,” says Johnson.
- “And the notion of getting very theatrical with natural light shifts that you don’t see very often in movies.” One of the scenes that shows their use of light the best is early on in the film when Detective Blanc (Daniel Craig) and Father Jud (Josh O’Connor) have a conversation about faith.
- “The first time Blanc and Jud talk to each other about their view on faith and the sun coming out behind Jud during his speech… That one came out so pointed,” says Yedlin.
