His memorable work also includes 'The Conversation' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
The latter saw Butler flown in from Chicago to complete three musical numbers with a nonunion crew and no location permits. “It was good to work with Bill again, and we accomplished more in a day than in three with a full union crew,” Friedkin recalled.
Butler never attended film school, learning his craft by going to the movies and by referring to the American Society of Cinematographers manual whenever he couldn’t figure anything out., shooting the West Coast scenes as well as scenes of Michael Corleone and the Baker standing guard outside the hospital where Vito is recovering from an assassination attempt. and John Erman’s , respectively, and the American Society of Cinematographers presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003.
“I think probably that I have not seen better day-for-night shot on the ocean ever than I shot on that film,” he said. “Yet I’ve never heard anyone comment on it. Only I know that it was as good as it was. Now my own peers, other cinematographers who make these judgments, must have thought that those shots were done in the lab as a trick and therefore not worthy.”
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