I was eight or nine years old when my Mother and Sister and I walked down to the oil field South of Washington St when we saw the lights from our kitchen window of our apartment on Grand Canal.
At the edit when the car passes on the boardwalk of Venice the couple looks up toward the explosion and it then cuts to what was shot south of Washington near the canal and some oil rigs which can be seen catching light as the fire trucks pull up.
@jtgreaves I think the thing that really strikes me watching this scene is just how technically accomplished it is. I mean, it really is stunning. It's one unbroken, uncut camera shot for five minutes, following several different characters around a highly complex set. Just ask yourself, technically, how would you actually do that? What kind of device would you use to carry the camera around that set, bearing in mind the heights and lows that he gets the camera to?
@jtgreaves Then there's the fact that there's no dialogue - we're drawn in by the tension alone. We know nothing about the people that we're seeing. All we know is that a bomb is about to go off in the middle of what otherwise appears to be a completely normal evening scene - ordinary people going about their ordinary lives. It's a great use of dramatic irony to draw us into the film. Just superb film making.
I think I'm falling in love with this scene. Long shots get me going
ylfa 2 weeks ago
I was eight or nine years old when my Mother and Sister and I walked down to the oil field South of Washington St when we saw the lights from our kitchen window of our apartment on Grand Canal.
At the edit when the car passes on the boardwalk of Venice the couple looks up toward the explosion and it then cuts to what was shot south of Washington near the canal and some oil rigs which can be seen catching light as the fire trucks pull up.
soulbeckett 4 months ago
Amazing Opening scene!!!
soccergoalkeeper1 8 months ago
Not his greatest work
jtgreaves 1 year ago
@jtgreaves maybe not but a masterpiece nonetheless
garfrain 1 year ago
@jtgreaves well that was blunt.
filmfanman65 1 year ago
@jtgreaves yeah jtgreaves, take your orson bashing elsewhere
garfrain 1 year ago 2
@jtgreaves I think the thing that really strikes me watching this scene is just how technically accomplished it is. I mean, it really is stunning. It's one unbroken, uncut camera shot for five minutes, following several different characters around a highly complex set. Just ask yourself, technically, how would you actually do that? What kind of device would you use to carry the camera around that set, bearing in mind the heights and lows that he gets the camera to?
naishjam 3 weeks ago
@jtgreaves Then there's the fact that there's no dialogue - we're drawn in by the tension alone. We know nothing about the people that we're seeing. All we know is that a bomb is about to go off in the middle of what otherwise appears to be a completely normal evening scene - ordinary people going about their ordinary lives. It's a great use of dramatic irony to draw us into the film. Just superb film making.
naishjam 3 weeks ago