There is so much more to learn about cinematography from Drive alone—imagine how much more you could glean from breaking down your favorite films. Funny, had the editor in one of our editing suites the other day, cool guy, really liked him, also it was one of the most complicated avid loads ever, very cool approach! Darious: in many of your examples of "great shots" there were multiple really multiple! Why didn't you mention the dissolves?
That last long shot he talks about Driver is cut badly, blood everywhere, not moving, sitting with a car door open normally a door would be closed. We spend a minute and a half asking the question And he finally blinks and drives off. Skip to main content. No Film School. August 30, If you want to learn the art of cinematography, a great place to start is with a film that contains memorable images.
Darious Britt. Nicolas Winding Refn. Newton Thomas Sigel. You Might Also Like. Leave this field blank. Reply Share Share this answer:. Finn Jaeger I drive. Mythic resonance comes cheap these days, and Refn accordingly relies almost exclusively on such paltry allegorical weight, pillaging the rag and bone shop of tired, mass-produced pop-culture tropes and brandishing them as revealed truths.
Compare, once again, Crank , with its literally ornamental pool bunnies reclining topless in transparent orbs, objectification and a comment on same all at once—plus the butt of a good throwaway joke when one unlucky lady discovers that a plastic globe is not the best place to be when the bullets start flying. Allegory inherently puts meaning at a one-step remove, and it is telling that Refn puts more stock in extrinsic interpretation than the impoverished sounds and images he has actually assembled.
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