So tonight, I went to a baseball game at the new Bull Durham stadium. The old one, still exists. It's a great ball park, and you can't help but think of the classic 1988 film when watching the game. If any of you young-hubskiers haven't seen the film, check it out.
This is one of my favorite scenes of the movie. Young "LaLoosh" is getting schooled by Costner. -Much of the film revolves around the old making room for the young, while showing that the old have some qualities worth having too.
Anyways, it's a damn good movie scene.
What is a great scene in film that you would like to share?
scrimetime - where you been meat?
Children of Men's car scene. All one continuous shot. Fun fact: The cameraman and director rode on top of the car to control the camera!
I'm such a sucker for a well done long-shot and Children of Men is all about that technique.
We got a lot of Tarkovsky at film school. I spent most of the screenings looking at my watch. I'm kind of a stickler for a film with a plot.
Then they showed Mirror. There's no plot. The camera is slow as hell and the soundtrack is mostly dripping water.
But, for some reason, I was hooked.
I watched the entire film from the edge of my seat. Half-forgotten memories of my own childhood popped into my head out of nowhere. I could swear I felt the water droplets hitting my skin. This sequence
On paper, it's a film I should hate. But I keep coming back to it...
If you've never watched it, The Tree of Life is, to me, an existential movie that juxtaposes the insignificance (yet importance) of human life with the vastness of existence as a whole (as well as whole other themes from the duality of nature to familial relations, etc). It does so by focusing most of the film on the lives of a small family in Texas while also showing scenes like this one, which features the creation of the universe, the creation of Earth, and the evolution of life. Malick is a religious man, and the film opens with a quote from Job:
This scene is pretty much Malick's visual depiction of that argument. If you want to know more about how they did it, you can read so here P.S. don't worry about Malick's religiosity if you're curious about his films but are afraid of being preached to. I'm an atheist and still love them. It's more a love of nature and humanity than dogma.Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?...when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of god shouted for joy? Job 38:4,7
The Tree of Life is AMAZING. I worked on it in the really early stages of the edit. It was one of those films where we were all so excited to have new rushes come in - all the raw material was amazing: beautiful, powerful, believable. What was difficult was to edit it. We found that the material would suddenly become unconvincing every time we cut into it.
Malick ended up going through a lot of editors to find what he needed! But he did find it, IMO, the finished film is wonderful!
I don't know what I find more exciting: That you got to work on a Malick production - albeit briefly - or that you got to play around with raw footage shot by Chivo. Tree of Life is a film I keep going back to, in particular for the editing. It appears to me that the film structures the scenes and images in a kind of vague jumble much like our memory tends to do. That's what fascinates me the most. What the protagonist remembers about his childhood and his family is not so much the particular events and happenings but rather, things like postures, tones, where he was... everything else being lost to the fuzzy side of the brain. I also think that Lubezki's capacity for capturing that feeling is unparalleled. It's no wonder that Malick went through so many edits, but hearing that you got to be a part of it is rad! Any more stories you could share about working on that production?
EEEK! I forgot my favorite sequence shot of all time: the opening scene from Werckmeister Harmonies. For those who haven't come across it: it's an entire feature film composed only of 12 (pretty sure here, correct me if I'm off a digit!) shots like this one.
After I watched this film I went to a party and made everyone play planets... :)
I'm going to piggyback off edricarica and post another comment. I really enjoyed the opening for Under the Skin. The is so visually captivating, and the score is haunting. This dialogue from Hunger, Steve McQueen's first feature film is also awesome. It's a single shot featuring a conversation between a priest and IRA member Bobby Sands, who is planning to go through with a hunger strike. It's a good chunk of the movie so maybe it'd be better to watch it in the context of the movie, though.
Full Metal Jacket
and Super Troopers
are two great movie intros that set the stage for the films very well.
We used a super troopers scene in our Podcast on the NSA. It's a hilarious movie and that is definitely a solid intro to a comedy.
That was interesting. What tag do I follow to keep abreast of the show?
Thanks. You can follow #tngpodcast or TNGPODCAST. Here is a link to all of them we've put to video:
I have to share Trinity's escape in The Matrix, there is so many iconic things about that movie and I think this scene exemplifies them well: it's our first glimpse as to what people who are free from the matrix can do, as well as the agents that hunt them and from a technical standpoint it's amazing, pioneering and popularising techniques like the 360 slow-motion wrap-around. I remember that to film the phonebox scene they had to construct a camera dolly with headlights on that they had to push full pelt.