"There isn't that figuring out period. We get to use the prep time in a way that's really efficient and makes the movie better because we're [in agreement] from the very first moment of whatever time we have crafting and honing and sculpting this movie. We don't waste time talking abstractions or making sure we have the same taste. We can just dive right into the details of each individual scene and shot."
"'In the church, we have day, night, dawn, dusk,' said Yedlin. 'We have early morning rays slashing in. As Wick's speech swells up, the sun bursts out from behind the clouds and flares the lens. We had custom light control s"
Wake Up Dead Man follows Benoit Blanc investigating the strange death of Monseigneur Jefferson Wicks, a fire-and-brimstone parish priest, in a spookily Gothic small-town locked-room mystery. Cinematographer Steve Yedlin rejoined the director after working on previous Knives Out installments, leveraging a decades-long friendship to align aesthetics quickly and use prep time efficiently. The film foregrounds interplay between light and dark, with dramatic, sometimes intra-scene lighting shifts to heighten mood. Key moments include a pulpit sermon where sunlight briefly bursts from behind clouds to flare the lens and a bright, revelatory moment for Blanc before the final reveal.
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