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A video essay about the directing style that has dominated cinema since the 1970s: Intensified Continuity.David Bordwell, our greatest movie theorist, create...
Agree or disagree, I found this rather thought-provoking.
The worst offender I can think of is “Bohemian Rhapsody”. There is a scene where the record company exec meets Queen for the first time, and the frantic shots and cuts - what they focus on - make no sense whatsoever, creating a hollow tension to the point of being distractingly annoying. Shooting a regular dramatic scene like it was Michael Bay doing one of his headache-inducing Transformers action chaos sequence. Yet this mediocre thing won the Oscar for Best Editing, of all things!
The worst offender I can think of is “Bohemian Rhapsody”. There is a scene where the record company exec meets Queen for the first time, and the frantic shots and cuts - what they focus on - make no sense whatsoever, creating a hollow tension to the point of being distractingly annoying. Shooting a regular dramatic scene like it was Michael Bay doing one of his headache-inducing Transformers
actionchaos sequence. Yet this mediocre thing won the Oscar for Best Editing, of all things!Fucking travesty it won best editing and getting a nom for best pic. Terrible and a waste of rami
What, you don’t like the Taken style of a million cuts for a scene of someone jumping a fence? /s