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It's all amazing, minus the wonky controller timing for that one but where you have to outrace a train on a handcar. The timings make absolutely no sense.
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Good to know, thanks!
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Did those papers have a right-wing family that owned/published them before the transition?
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It’s the highlight of the film (which itself has many high points!).
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2. It has multiple parts to it – starting the climb, the glove fails, getting back down the building - while more recent ones are “Look at the crazy stunt! Oh, now we’re done and moving on”.
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1. The cinematography is stunning. Shot mainly on 70mm IMAX, the clarity of the city so far away (and below) really sells just how high up he is.
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Tom Cruise has done lots of crazy stunts. And while he might be escalating them with each “Mission: Impossible” movie, I firmly believe that the sequence in the fourth film of him climbing the Burj Khalifa skyscraper is yet to be topped. Why? Two reasons…
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I haven't trusted the Spokesman since they endorsed Trump in 2020. Forced by the owners.
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“Chef” makes Percy smart enough that he learns the lesson right here without having to fall into the lazy storytelling trap. Well done.
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Either of these things happening is something that movies of the last 20-30 years have trained us to expect, supposedly so that the kid in the story would learn their lesson.
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What makes this moment great in the context of the rest of the film is that the kid doesn’t lose the knife or cut himself with it like his dad warned him.
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As Carl inspects the bill, he adds a chef’s knife to the order and gives it to Percy, telling him about the importance and serious responsibility that comes with it.
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The scene is about two-thirds of the way thru the movie. After having been kind of a dick to his kid, Percy, chef Carl is buying equipment for the food truck he’s just gotten, his son with him.
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It’s also about fatherhood – told in a way that avoids falling into the traps that so many movies about fathers and sons get caught in.
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i went into this one with no real goal - just improv’d a little melody, then messed with it for a b theme. instrumentation came later.
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I second the recommendation for a Rivian. My wife and I got the truck last year and it's been amazing. The SUV is a little smaller than the truck, but just as capable.
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But just as he’s discovered, the surroundings are magically snapped to normal brightness, bringing us back to reality. It's totally what happens when you get into any groove, and cooking is no exception. Great directing by Mr. Bird.
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It keeps our focus on what Remy is doing and also puts in into a similar mental state as him: focus on the work… and maybe a little bit tunnel visioned.
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Another thing to notice is the lighting. The scene starts with realistic lighting, as we are in a working kitchen and bright light is a must! But as Remy throws ingredients in, everything beyond the soup station gets cloaked in shadow.
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But as he gets more and more into cooking, the camera moves become bigger, leading to the final shot wherein we spin around the pot of soup almost two full times. This rotation gives us the energy that cutting quickly would normally do.
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It doesn’t rely on quick cuts to impart energy, but instead using movement, both within the frame and of the camera itself. The camera is always moving – as Remy the rat starts fixing the soup in earnest, the camera moves are slower and a little more drifty.
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i wanted to experiment with taking melodic material from a slower, calmer piece and transforming it into an action sequence.
in the end, i messed with the melodies a bit too much and the connection isn’t quite there. but it still turned out pretty good, all things considered.
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This technique is normally used to switch from a stunt performer to the actual actor in the same shot, but Speed’s director Jan DeBont does it with city buses. It’s great filmmaking.
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The trick here is that there were two buses involved. One drove off out of view when you couldn’t see it (following Jack into his car), while the one that explodes was set up in a place where you wouldn’t see it until the camera is in the right place.
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What’s impressive about the shot is that there’s no cuts – you see the bus start driving off as Jack waves, the camera follows Jack around into his car, then the bus explodes.
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Early in the movie, there’s a scene where our hero Jack (Keanu Reeves) is chatting with a city bus driver, who then goes back to his bus and drives off. Our hero waves goodbye as the bus drives off…. And just a few seconds later, the bus explodes!
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One of the best 90s action films, Speed has some really cool old-school filmmaking tricks in it but scaled up quite a bit. One of those tricks is something called the Texas Switch… I’ll get to what that is soon.