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The opening scene of Everything Everywhere All At Once features some outstanding blocking imo
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Add in the cuts and it gets more confusing. It’s been easier for me to understand blocking and staging in film by watching long single-take scenes like the ones from Touch of Evil or Boogie Nights. By necessity they require extra planning and precision when it comes to space and movement and timing so you can tease out how the elements work together.
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The Touch of Evil opening is classic. There’s an insane single take in Hard Boiled you gotta see to believe, too.
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It is, but I’m not sure it’s the longest single take in the film even. I think that’s the dolly shot interrogation scene. Welles shot that early taking two days and saving days of filming to prove to the producers he could deliver on time and under budget.
The crane shot in I am Cuba is pretty impressive too.
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did someone say “staging and blocking”?
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