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Scorsese’s editor Thelma Schoonmaker has been known to use takes that don’t match up (e.g. cup in hand, cut, cup not in hand) as long as the emotional truth car
by mjklin 6y ago
Scorsese’s editor Thelma Schoonmaker has been known to use takes that don’t match up (e.g. cup in hand, cut, cup not in hand) as long as the emotional truth carries through.
- hardwaregeek 6y agoThe more movies I watch the more I agree with this philosophy. Either the movie works or it doesn’t. If continuity helps the movie work, then great. Otherwise who cares? If you went up to Herzog about a continuity error, he’d probably tell you to get a life.
- _old_dude_ 6y agoI don't think it's that simple. As an anecdote i've recently seen Extraction with Chris Hemsworth, great movie but in the middle of the first big action scene, the camera goes through the windscreen of the back of the car without the glass being shattered. It was enough to pull me out of the action into a moment of disbelief. Breaking continuity has a cost
- jquery 6y agoSounds like the emotional truth of the action didn’t carry through.
- mrec 6y agoHow is that a continuity break? It's not like the camera is a real, solid entity in the movie's fictional world.
- aspaceman 6y agoYeah that doesn’t make sense for me. The camera isn’t real but just a virtual pinhole with a screen on the other end. A “window to another world”.
- bombela 6y agoIt felt like noclip=1 for a second. I genuinely liked it. You are within the action, but it reminds you that you are an omniscient and untouchable spectator.
- harshitaneja 6y agoThis reminds me of the scene in Shutter Island where Teddy interrogates a female patient and the glass of water is absent in subsequent frame. Many of us wonder if it was deliberate or not. I was leaning towards deliberate but now reading this I am wondering if I gave them too much credit.
- disown 6y agoI think something that obvious was intentional. Especially since it fits directly with the protagonist's mental state and his phobia of water. Water features prominently in that film for a reason.
- hardwaregeek 6y agoPerhaps that's true. I wouldn't put it past Scorsese. It does remind me of this though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dbO56vl3A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dbO56vl3A
- harshitaneja 6y agoI was thinking the linked video would be this. Free Churro is my favourite episode(well there's Time's Arrow, View from the halfway down, The Old Sugarman Place, Fish out of water) in any TV show ever.