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indybones

indybones

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Hi Peeps..

I was wondering if I could pick your brains please...

I'm researching/collecting well known scenes, from famous films,
and really concentrating on the cinematographic element that makes up the scene, ie camera movement, lighting etc

examples so far
'Good-fellers' long steady cam scene
'The Shining' Corridor shots
"Taxi Drivers' "You twalkin to me"

etc... those types of really well known scenes, I know it's a really open question, but could really do with picking your collective brains on this one..thank you :dankk2::dankk2::thumbup:

Indy
 
The opening 3 minute crane shot of 'Touch of Evil'
The run up the steps of 'Rocky', one of the first uses of Steadicam.
The dolly zoom used in Vertigo (Stewart looking down the bell tower), and in Jaws (Brody's reaction on the beach).
The candle lit scenes in Barry Lyndon (lit only with candles and an f-stop of .7)
 
Space ship reveal in 2001
shower stabbing in Pyscho
Raiders of the lost ark Giant Ball chase
Full Metal Jacket Mickey Mouse scene
Citizen kane sky light tracking shot
Any one take scene from children of men
 
Yeah, I think children of men is an interesting modern one to look at, I think the car rig was pretty amazing and visionary.

Also, interesting because with modern technology, I think they actually stitched together some takes to make them look like one long, continuous take. Not sure how often that had been done before.
 
The beach attack in Saving Private Ryan. You can't do a WWII battle scene now unless you use contrasty, desaturated colors and a handheld camera set to a fast shutter speed. Also, any scene from JFK (maybe choose the Mr. X Scene), which mixed up film stocks, color and grain in a way still being imitated today.
 
Pulp Fiction/Reservoir Dogs inside the trunk shot. An often ripped off angle now-a-days.
 
The 2 or 3 times this "guy" shows up for a split second in the Exorcist.
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Creepy as heck...
 
The first 10 minutes single shot of Altman's "The Player". A tribute to Welles and others well mentioned in the that same shot!
 
CallaghanFilms said:
Hitchcock's Notorious "Key Scene"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYmRhNz7kgU
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The key scene is amazing.

Also, if you have not seen it, check out "Young and Innocent," where he does essentially the same shot over a ball room to the "drummer man."

And even further back, if you choose to go back and look at is silent film days, you start to see the master, even then, working out certain shots.

But I think Notorious is among his best work. Not to mention, as usual, Claude Rains giving a master class in scene stealing. What an amazing actor.
 
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Mark Harris said:
...Also, if you have not seen it, check out "Young and Innocent," where he does essentially the same shot over a ball room to the "drummer man."...
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Impressive, Mark...MOST IMPRESSIVE.

Young and Innocent is a greatly overlooked gem of the master.

The "Drummer Scene" is breakthrough stuff and amazing:beer:
 
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