Rather than update the franchise to match current styles, Lucas and Spielberg decided to stay true to the prior films look, tone, and pace. During pre-production, Spielberg watched the first three Indiana Jones movies at an Amblin screening room with Janusz Kaminski, who has shot the directors last 10 films. He replaces Douglas Slocombe, who shot the first three Indy movies (and is now retired at age 94), as the man mainly responsible for the films look. I needed to show them to Janusz, Spielberg says, because I didnt want Janusz to modernize and bring us into the 21st century. I still wanted the film to have a lighting style not dissimilar to the work Doug Slocombe had achieved, which meant that both Janusz and I had to swallow our pride. Janusz had to approximate another cinematographers look, and I had to approximate this younger directors look that I thought I had moved away from after almost two decades.
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