The opening scene was actively bathed in soft lighting or "dark gaze" that gave off a cloudy sky to understand the power that Don Corleone possessed over the people he was speaking to. According to David Konow (2014) "As Willis recalled in the book Masters of Light, That technique or that visual approach to film just came out of a thought process. And the process, in my mind, was based on evil; it was based about the soul of the photo. The wedding outside had a very sunny, almost Kodachromey, 1942 feel. Then when we cut to the inside of the house with Brando, it was very sad and very disturbing... so it was very simple philosophy However, the overall look of The Godfather was a sort of 1940s New York grit.” The lighting used in The Godfather helped implore the nostalgic feel of the film. Although it was made in the 1980s, Willis' use of new techniques changed the lighting in later films and placed the viewer in the midst of the mob of the 1980s '40.