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Emotional Triggers

by Ray Zone

When director of photography Conrad Hall, ASC and director Sam Mendes teamed to make American Beauty, few could have predicted that their dark vision of suburban malaise would be such a smash success. The film won five Academy Awards, including those for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Cinematography (Hall's second Oscar, following his triumph for the 1969 Western classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). Hall's work also earned him his third ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography (see AC June ‘00).

Road to Perdition, Hall and Mendes' second collaboration, took the duo into decidedly different territory. Based on a graphic novel authored by Max Allan Collins, the film is a tale about the Irish Mafia set in 1930s Chicago. At its heart is the relationship between fathers and sons; after his professional life tragically impacts his domestic life, hit man Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks) sets out on a wintry journey of self-discovery with his son,......


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