You can take this back to at least Saving Private Ryan or even Star Wars, right? I remember more close-ups of the beach scene in SPR vs an "overall" zoom-out. A

You can take this back to at least Saving Private Ryan or even Star Wars, right? I remember more close-ups of the beach scene in SPR vs an "overall" zoom-out. And similarly, in ROTJ, there was a giant space battle around the Death Star, that we saw from the perspective of just a few ships. I don't think showing the grand scale - with tiny pawns moving around in different parts - would be very visually or narratively interesting, unless I'm misunderstanding you.