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Special lens for Cuba scenes?

posted 3 years ago by Jes' Sayin' (5990)
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I remember when the movie Traffic came out a big deal was made over the bluish lens for the scenes in America and a yellowish one for the scenes in Mexico. But it looked like there might have been a yellow lens for the Cuba scenes in this movie too? So maybe Traffic wasn't the first major film to use this trick.

[–] CaptainCrozier (599) 3 years ago

Wouldn't be surprised. This is the great Gordon Willis we're talking about here.

I know that for Traffic--which Soderbergh shot himself--he used a tobacco filter for the Mexico scenes and an unfiltered film stock with a tungsten white balance for the scenes with Michael Douglas' character in America.