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> there isn’t a shot longer than 4s in the entire movie is this hyperbole? Genuinely asking.

• pvg 6y ago
  - The pictures they make these days are all MTV. Cut, cut, cut, cut. The opening shot of Welles's Touch of Evil was six and a half minutes long. - Six and a half minutes? - Three or four, anyway
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• graton 6y ago
  Seems like hyperbole. I just looked at Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol (aka Mission Impossible IV). In the first two minutes there were multiple shots of over 10 seconds. And at the 0:14:44 mark there is a 24 second shot.
• laurent92 6y ago
  Parent here. I admit this wasn’t from a scientific method, it is just that when I saw it in the theater, I suddenly understood why it was annoying, and started counting from there. Maybe there were longer shots earlier in the movie (although I’ve tried watching it recently and the first scenes were cut this way), maybe the average isn’t 0.7 which was a ballpark figure based on my counting. Sorry for being probably wrong on the exactness of the figures, I thought the background idea was important, that pre-2000 movies were slower, and there has been an acceleration to the point of ridicule, and it is probable that directors dialled down from the extremely-fast-paced style because it didn’t find its audience. Yes, more recent movies didn’t go faster than that one, it was really a style that had its apogee in that movie.