The Canvas as the Frame.

unlike paintings where you are given a single frame and audience required to see the whole story and such, film is an outstanding storytelling medium, where you have the ability to manipulate the concept of time. I have to admit - The American Realists by Andrew Wyeth and Edward Hopper's works trained me hard and good in composing of what you want to say.

Hopper's Nighthawks

 
Wyeth's Turkey Pond

Ridley Scott's Gladiator

The American realists taught me to stay still and let the actions filling in the frame. I dont like to pan the camera, the moment when you move - you are simply lost.  

H3RO

Is it necessary for the camera to move? 

How we can let the audience know alot of information by minimizing everything?

Michael Bay screwed all my senses and visual perception with his overkill Transformers : Dark of the Moon ( which the film rakes in billions of bucks - so who cares right ). Mind you The Rock ( not the wrestler ), the film where we have Sean Connery helps Nic Cage in Alcatraz is still one of his best work. 

this is why we go to cinemas, The Rock

I almost vomited during a scene in The Hunger Games ( seriously until today, i hope no one hire this cursed DOP ). No doubt i hate when i dont understand what im seeing, what is going on, the unnecessary close ups, who' who and what the fuck really happens.

I guess the DOP is suffering from Alzheimer.

Captain America: Winter Soldier is one smart, calculated, impeccably designed film unlike the shitty Suicide Squad and Justice League which suffered due to studio involvement.

 flip unto a centerfold...didnt touch my popcorn until credits rolled...

Morricone fill in the space, the void with supreme subtlety -  mathematically calculated when he staged the classical trio in the shoot out climax in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. 

Enter Matt Damon and Greengrass.  

Bourne Trilogy expanded the camera language by putting us straight unto the action leaving us giddy and breathless. Its executed majestically. The problem is amateur directors thought its a simple process, they got addicted to complete close up overkill. 

It goes on until a savior named George Miller save us by giving us ample time, space and distance to see his orchestrated rampage in his brilliant Mad Max Fury Road. 

 

 

From Shaky to The Single Track 

Old Boy gave us a masterclass on how to present a bloody street fight, Quentin gave us an orchestra on rampage in Kill Bill's The Tree of Blue Leaves. This technical hardworking effort slowly goes into smaller screen, treating and educating audience in the form of Breaking Bad, The Punisher and Daredevil.


 
remember, this is before all Marvel rights returns home to Disney. No more blood and gore.


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