This action packed movie directed Michael Mann, surely lived up to its name. Filled with household actors with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Val Kilmer did everything asked in a action, violent film. LT. Vincent Hanna, trying to catch Neil Mcculley's crew after completing high stakes bank robberies. It felt like Pacino and De Niro were accustomed to these roles from that start, since this is their preferred genre of acting. To me since they played similar characters throughout the years it made it kind of bland, not saying their acting was bad but it was so familiar. It consisted lots of over the shoulder shots, wide shots (to see the whole setting) and close up on characters eyes. One of my favorite scenes was the shootout in the city, it was pretty gory. I thought it was funny when Pacino was trying to shoot De Niro with a shotgun in the middle of the Grocery store, it just seemed so unrealistic but I enjoyed it. Understandably, this film is a strong action film filled with drama and intensity, I just wished I saw some variation of acting from De Niro and Pacino.
One of the most bizarre movie scenes in my opinion. The LAPD shooting the crew in the middle of Downtown L.A and surprisingly no one got hurt. I actually chuckled when Pacinos character was just all out firing an AK47 in the middle of Grocery Parking lot.
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...
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...
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...
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