Rodrigo Prieto, ASC on The Glorias, Frida, working with Julie Taymor, Martin Scorsese, Alejandro González Iñárritu

When Rodrigo Prieto meets with a director, he comes with a clean
slate and a present state of mind to hear their vision. Rodrigo
first met Julie Taymor in New York to talk about filming Frida. He
had just finished shooting Amores Perros with director Alejandro
González Iñárritu and decided to move to Los Angeles from Mexico
City. For Rodrigo, Frida Kahlo's work was very influential, and he
was eager to work on a film about her life. He found that Julie
Taymor loves collaborating with her team on her movies and is open
to other's input, but knows what she wants and pushes for it.
Working with a theatrical director means her ideas tend to be more
representative and symbolic, rather than the naturalistic realism
seen in most movies. For The Glorias, Rodrigo and Julie had to
determine how realistically they wanted to portray some of the
events in Gloria Steinem's life. In one scene, Rodrigo and the crew
had to recreate the tornado from The Wizard of Oz, with the four
Glorias as the witches on brooms. The crew built a 70's era TV
studio, rigged lights and a green screen with a camera on a crane
and the actresses on wires on brooms. They also decided early on to
shoot the bus scenes in black and white, with color sequences
showing outside the windows. You can watch The Glorias streaming on
Amazon Prime. A new color timed version of Amores Perros will be
coming out from Criterion Collection. Find Rodrigo Prieto,
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