coulter, Lo

The dominate image in this scene is the Daemon Lo, with the secondary dominance on his cigarette, and deformed hand. In this scene the Daemon Lo is explaining how he intends to eat the youth as soon as he steps finger out of the protective circle he has drawn to summon a Daemon to find his lost love. The scene is set to show the dominate character of Lo and the lack of care he gives his youth master. He is lit sharply from both the left and right with a dimer high light to keep his lower body in the shadows. This lighting is used throughout the film to keep the focus from Lo's broken lower body which plays an important plot point as to his true identity. The camera is brought in to a personal range were you can see the blood and ichor dribbled down his chin. This is used to show his violent nature and overall evil demeanour, and in part to show the wonderful makeup job. This scene is repeated several time throughout the the conversation with Lo lighting up to show his general disdain and boredom with the purpose he has been summoned to do. The entire film is light as if it is a play and often present the flashback scenes in a manner with cast off stage with boom mikes and sound equipment, with Lo playing director in the visions he sets up to torture his new found master. While Lo is the dominate figure in most of the scenes he is rarely shown from any more than a personal camera proximity, so as not to highlight his crippled lower body. The obvious stage lighting helps make Lo a comical figure as well as intimidating.