2 Cinematographers For 127 HOURS Which Will Contain Dialogue

How many cinematographers does it take to shoot Danny Boyle’s next movie 127 HOURS starring James Franco? This isn’t the “screw a lightbulb” question, Boyle said, via The Playlist, that the assistance of 2 Cinematographers will be needed, and here’s why…

“We’ve got this idea that because there are so few characters in it, we’ll use two cinematographers: Anthony Dod Mantle, who did 28 Days Later, and Enrique Chediak, who did 28 Weeks Later. One is from Northern Europe and the other is South American. They’ll bring different things to it. Like in a conventional film you’d have a comic character and a villain.”

Interesting.. I like that idea a lot. Boyle’s experiment might turn out well in his favor, cinematically.
Now keep in mind that this has been publicized as a one-man movie, much like Ryan Reynold’s BURIED because 127 HOURS is based on a true story of Aron Ralston, the American mountain climber who self-amputated part of his arm when it was pinned in a 2003 back-country hiking accident. So the assumption has always been that Franco would carry the movie by himself. Meaning there’s not gonna be a lot of talking because the focus would be on him climbing and struggling to survive. But then, as we already know, Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara joined the cast. So is there or is there not going to be dialogue..

“There is dialogue at the beginning, and at the end, obviously, but for most of the film he doesn’t have anyone to talk to,” Boyle said, but explained the first-person POV dialogue that will appear. “But what came to light is that he had a video camera with him, and he recorded six or seven messages, for those he thinks are going to grieve for him, basically saying goodbye. We’ve seen the messages, he doesn’t tend to show them… So if you like, that is the dialogue, with a future he thinks he is not going to have.”

Heartbreaking.. but no worries, Ralston survived the ordeal. He amputated part of his arm with a dull knife, all by himself. It wasn’t a surgical knife, it wasn’t even sterile, it was just something that he needed to do to survive after getting stuck there for 5 days. Ralston then scaled a 65-foot sheer wall and hiked out before running into a family that gave him water and food.

“it took him 44 minutes to cut his arm off. The blood loss would have been phenomenal… [however] that’s one of the weird things: he had deteriorated by then, the blood had thickened, the arm was effectively dead. This is one of the reasons he survived (because the blood had congealed, the arm had clotted and therefore the loss was minor).”

Ready to see Franco with ‘congealed minor’ blood loss?.. it sounds nasty no matter which way you say it.
Here’s a question… from the scale of 1 through 10.. how would you rate James Franco’s acting skills?

sources:http://ramascreen.com/2-cinematographers-for-127-hours-which-will-contain-dialogue/