In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Johnny Depp wore Hunter S. Thompson’s real 1970s clothes which he loaned him after Depp spent 4 months living with him to study his mannerisms and voice.
Thompson later slammed Tobey Maguire's performance as a “wax doll” and a “freak.”
Light and darkness are constantly in conflict in Robert Richardson’s frames. Faces emerge, then disappear. Figures are defined by what hits them, and what doesn’t. The image isn’t balanced. It’s pushed until contrast becomes the story.
Robert Eggers lets darkness consume the frame.
Moonlight. Firelight. A single face emerging from shadow. His films don’t illuminate the world. They reveal just enough to make it unsettling.