![]() ![]() ![]() There's the script, and it poses…not a problem, but an opportunity. In each case, you don't just follow a script and then some instructions on how to do it. " Roger Rabbitwas all about new techniques of integrating animated characters into a live-action world. That hadn't been done realistically before," he explained. " Jurassic Park was all about mechanical dinosaurs, but also about CG dinosaurs. It's also worth noting that he was the final DP to work with Steven Spielberg before the director established his longtime creative partnership with Janusz Kamiński. Speaking with us again for a look back at Apollo 13 earlier this year, Cundey praised the intrepid filmmakers who wanted to take the medium of visual storytelling "somewhere new." Projects like The Thing, Roger Rabbit and Jurassic Park, for example, all represented previously unseen breakthroughs in visual effects and computer-generated imagery. The most impressive thing about his cinematic CV is the sheer number of groundbreaking entries. But ‘Oh yeah, it's one of my favorite films and I've shown it to so many friends and my kids.’" And when they say, ‘Oh, what do you do?’ ‘Oh, well, I’ve shot this film.’ ‘Oh, my gosh! I saw that as a kid and I loved it!’ I hate it when they say 'I saw it as a kid,' because that means I'm old. He continued: "There's almost nowhere I go in the world that somebody hasn't seen one of the films. Hopping on a Zoom call with SYFY WIRE last summer in honor of The Thing's 40th anniversary, the soft-spoken cinematographer described it as "a great honor and privilege" to have his name attached to so many features that have woven themselves "into the public sensibilities and the history of storytelling on film." Yeah, the dude is an absolute legend, and super humble to boot. RELATED: Whit Hertford, Jurassic Park's '6-Foot Turkey' Kid, Looks Back on Iconic Role 30 Years Later Cundey's work, here is a smattering of titles you may have heard of: Halloween, The Fog, Escape from New York, The Thing, the Back to the Future trilogy, Big Trouble in Little China, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Hook, Death Becomes Her, Jurassic Park(now streaming on Peacock for its 30th anniversary), Casper, Apollo 13, and, most recently, episodes of The Book of Boba Fett and The Mandalorian. Dean Cundey stands as the exception to the rule with a jaw-dropping list of seminal films that benefitted from his work as director of photography. A cinematographer is lucky if they find themselves at the photographic helm of a single, culture-defining movie. ![]()
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