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The 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 w
by hardwaregeek 6y ago
The 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.