RIP Gilbert Taylor

Gone at 99:

I noticed in particular because of this:

" On Star Wars, he and Lucas frequently disagreed. “George avoided all meetings and contact with me from day one,” Taylor said, “so I read the extra-long script many times and made my own decisions as to how I would shoot the picture.” He and Lucas had a fundamental disagreement about the look of the film—Lucas wanted to use heavy filtration, which Taylor said made everything “mush together,” and the conflict was resolved when 20th Century Fox sided with Taylor.

Movie fans will each have their own favorite shot of Taylor’s. Some will remember most the long opening shot of Star Wars, shot from below, which positions the tiny, fleeing rebel spacecraft against the massive Empire Star Destroyer that chases after. Famously, it takes only this one shot to set the movie up as an underdog story from the beginning."

And it struck a chord because of this:

starting at 1:10.

and what he says at 1:40