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Behind the Scenes Look at Guillermo del Toro's NIGHTMARE ALLEY, Which Is Also Getting a Black and White Release
Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley was released in theaters this past weekend, and I thought it was a fantastic film! I absolutely loved the style, and tone, along with the mysterious story that it told. If you haven’t watched it yet, it’s definitely a must see!
Weather you’ve seen the film or not, I’ve got a new behind the scenes video for for you to watch that was shared by Rotten Tomatoes on Twitter. It features the filmmaker and the cast, including Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Ron Perlman, David Strathairn, Richard Jenkins, and Cate Blanchett talking about the film and offering some insight on the story.
In that story, “an ambitious carny (Bradley Cooper) with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist (Blanchett) who is even more dangerous than he is."
When talking about the film, Del Toro said, "Nightmare Alley is a tale about destiny, about a character that could change his life and yet his own hubris is so strong that it becomes destiny ... The city is a ruthless place, people that are trapped inside, that are incapable of seeing the good in themselves and others. People use people. People destroy people."
It was also announced Searchlight Pictures will be releasing a black and white version of the film, which is something that Del Toro hoped would happen. The black-and-white iteration is dubbed Nightmare Alley: Vision in Darkness and Light, and it will screen in select theaters across Los Angeles in January of 2022.
When previously talking about the black and white version of the film, the director said, "There is a version of the movie [in black and white] which I hope can be seen. It's not a movie where you turn the color off. The movie is almost like a serigraph in black and white that then has another layer of color. If you saw the movie in black and white, it's not like you just turned the color off. It looks exactly like a movie from the 1940s in a way that is astounding."
He also said, “Although we shot Nightmare Alley in color, we lit it as if it were black and white. You can see exactly the same level of design, and we wanted to give viewers this special vantage as a take of the classic noir genre that the film is part of.”
If you’ve seen Nightmare Alley, let us know what you thought!
Source: Variety