``Donnie Darko'' Who are the key people and works that brought about a miracle to an unknown young man?

Jake Gyllenhaal was involved in the script

In addition to Jason Schwartzman, Vince Vaughn and Mark Wahlberg were also considered for the role of Donnie, but Jake Gyllenhaal, who made his debut in The October Sky (1999), was ultimately chosen.

Gyllenhaal, who was 19 at the time, spent about a month at Kelly's house discussing the script after Signs on for the title role. He filled the script with ideas, and together with the director, he fine-tuned Donnie's lines and polished the script, making the difficult character, who seems both mentally ill and sane, his own.

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Conditions set by a veteran cinematographer

Born in 1944, Steven Poster has been active as a cinematographer since the 1980s, having worked as the second unit cinematographer on Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He is a veteran who has participated in major and popular films such as Ridley Scott's Someone's Watching Me (1987) and Sylvester Stallone's Rocky V (1990).

When Kelly first met Poster, the cinematographer, 31 years his senior, began by saying, "There are two things I want you to know. First, forget about the age difference between us. Second, I have no intention of being a director, so don't worry, I'm not going to take this movie away from you."

Poster's achievement was that he shot the film using anamorphic lenses. This is a special lens that compresses the horizontal direction of the screen by half before shooting it on film, then doubles it back during post-production to obtain CinemaScope (2.35:1) images. Although it produces beautiful wide shots with a shallow depth of field, it is difficult to handle and expensive to shoot. However, thanks to Poster's fame, he was able to make a bargain deal with Panavision, which lent him the filming equipment. The meticulous shots and tasteful look of "Donnie Darko" were born from shooting with anamorphic lenses by Poster.