Roger Pratt, the Oscar-nominated cinematographer behind Tim Burton's Batman as well as two Harry Potter movies, has died.
Pratt passed away last month at the age of 77, with the news of his death announced by the British Society of Cinematographers on Friday.
“It is with deepest sadness that we learn of the passing of Roger Pratt ,” the BSC says in a statement.Pratt brought some of cinema’s most breathtaking fantasy worlds to life, showcasing his hauntingly beautiful artistry in Tim Burton’s, with its vision of a menacing and decaying Gotham City, would influence superhero movies for decades.Pratt was born in 1947 in Leicester, U.K.
“I stuck the camera on the edge of the cliff, but the lens wasn’t wide enough. We were a long way from the road, the light was going. It was terrible.” “This guy said, ‘Just give me a moment’ and in a few minutes, while we were still faffing around, he had run all the way down the mountain, forded the river, run up the other side, into the camera truck, grabbed the right lens and here it was.The End of the AffairThe Karate Kid
. He retired after being diagnosed with young-onset familial Alzheimer’s and wished that his brain be donated for research into the disease.
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