How are their characters behaving in those scenes? Are they behaving like human beings? My goal is to make a given scene emotionally accessible for the audience. I'm trying to frame them in an appropriate emotional context for the scenes.

Of his photography, Hall notes that 'I'm not trying to characterize the people in the film the actors do that. The film has very carefully crafted compositions, it's meticulously cut, and it's paced very gently and slowly all of which is good for the story.' There is no blue moonlight, no green vistas, none of that kind of stuff. 'It's a sort of honest reality that doesn't try to be theatrical in any way. 'The thing that makes this picture work so well is a kind of honesty,' Hall says. Hall's overarching strategy for the film dovetailed with the director's goal by favoring naturalistic realism over a more stylized approach to the material. 'I was trying to get away from all the clichés of the gangster genre.' ' Road to Perdition is a period movie in which there are no double-breasted, pin-striped suits and no spats,' Mendes says. Along the way, Sullivan must come to terms with his adoptive father, Irish crime lord John Rooney (Paul Newman). At its heart is the relationship between fathers and sons after his professional life tragically impacts his domestic life, hit man Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks) sets out on a wintry journey of self-discovery with his son, Michael Jr. Based on a graphic novel authored by Max Allan Collins, the film is a tale about the Irish Mafia set in 1930s Chicago. Road to Perdition, Hall and Mendes' second collaboration, took the duo into decidedly different territory. Hall's work also earned him his third ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography (see AC June '00). The film won five Academy Awards, including those for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography (Hall's second Oscar, following his triumph for the 1969 Western classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). When director of photography Conrad Hall, ASC and director Sam Mendes teamed to make American Beauty, few could have predicted that their dark vision of suburban malaise would be such a smash success. Unit photography by Francois Duhamel, SMPSP Road to Perdition, a Depression-era drama about a conflicted hit man, reteams Conrad L.

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