Word: semler
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Gibson is betting the chase will feel even hairier thanks to a new digital camera system, Panavision's Genesis, that yields a "tremendous sensation of velocity," says cinematographer Dean Semler, who won an Oscar for Dances with Wolves. All the doom and zoom sound fun, but the ancient Maya are also called the Greeks of the New World--they invented the concept of zero, built astonishing cities and used a more complex calendar than ours. Gibson insists the glory gets its close-ups too. Says Richard Hansen, a Maya scholar at Idaho State University, head of the Mirador Basin Project...
...then, “Dear God, why?”—it’s a surprise that the camerawork, which espouses the philosophy that the more the camera shakes, the more action must be happening, is the work of Academy Award-winning cinematographer Dean Semler (he won for 1991’s “Dancing with Wolves”). Semler and Cohen “pioneered” the camera shake in 2002?...