This Martin Scorsese film was a one I'll never forget to say the least. I've always been a fan of Martin's work such as Taxi Driver or Goodfellas just to name a few. So when I decided to watch this film, I was certain I was going to enjoy based on this consistent style of movies, and choice of actors. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jack Nicholson have been favorite actors of mine since I was young. Even though I had high expectations, it still somehow exceeded my expectations. With the surplus of the camera angle shots, that were fast paced and coordinated with the intensity of the dialogue. The multiple plot twists in the film actually caught me off guard and that does not really happen anymore when I watch films with plot twists.
One of my favorite shots was in the beginning with the narration by Nicholson's character, for a few minutes you couldn't really see his face, he appeared as a shadowy figure. When he was done with his narration and appeared from the darkness into the shot with practical light and low angle shot. It gave the character a fear factor that he seemed very dangerous. Overall 5 out of 5 stars for the film (it won best picture in 2006) so I guess others agreed with me.
This scene sequence was so mind-blowing to me, I had no idea what to think after I watched it. If you watch this, it might spoil the entire movie for you LOL.
Did you know there was an alternate ending proposed where all three survive with a potential sequel? I would've hated it compared to how it played out.
After reviewing chapter 5 about Cinematography and watching Get Out in class last week, I can use some of the terms to describe one of my favorite scenes from the film. This conventional thriller film pushed new waves on our interpretation of this genre. Diving into the iconic scene where Chris goes into the "sunken place" after Missy hypnotizes him. Popular director Jordan Peele and cinematographer Toby Oliver carefully crafted the stylistic choices with Chris and the setting. The main characteristic of lighting is Artificial lighting with fill. The lighting was established when Chris was sinking into the darkness and the light was from the viewpoint of what he was seeing beforehand. It casted the dark void Chris was slipping into gradually losing light. The depth of field was chosen to be casted far away from our character to establish the "sunken place" idea with a high angle far shot on Chris. The slow movements the chracter was making created a vision of him b...
Somehow in our film class, Cars was selcted to be viewed for the last week. I've seen this film countless times throughout my life and love watching it everytime. However, it decided to watch and pay attention to more of cinematography rather than story...because I can pretty much quote the entire movie (I know it's sad). Since this is an animated movie, the shot types and lighting choices are way more flexiable or acessible to use because the animators can make it any way they want to. Looking at this film again and outside of the story, I believe the cinematography and soundtrack boosted the overall enjoyment. You need to watch this clip...simply awesome! A lot of the enjoyment of the shot types came from the opening race scene and intro monologue by McQueen. The cuts between the dark trailer McQueen and the cars/sounds racing. You feel the intense shift of quiet to loud sound and I was really intrugued by the choices Pixar made. In terms of shot angles stuck out to...
Did you know there was an alternate ending proposed where all three survive with a potential sequel? I would've hated it compared to how it played out.
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