10 Astounding Facts About The Lighthouse You Didn't Know

Establishing the period of a film can range from different techniques and approaches from natural candle lighting in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and Sir Ridley Scott's meticulous naturalism in The Duellists. Eggers took notes from his predecessors and tried his best in transporting audiences to the late 19th century in The Lighthouse.

He went as far as recreating the era with the use of an aspect ratio of 1.19 - common of portrait cameras of the time. In addition to get a full-on orthochromatic look, they used a film stock called double-x and paired it with lenses from the the late 19th century. It worked in bringing stronger contrast from the black and whites in the picture that imitate a portrait come to life.

With all these components combined on top of the dialogue, set design, and photography, the film was all the more better with it; the sea never tasted saltier.