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"You can argue that for fast-cut scenes it’s better to adopt a brute-force simplicity of composition, favoring the center."

24/03/16 11:56 Filed in: Link
David Bordwell;

Mad Max: Fury Road seems to me a superbly directed film in its chosen style, but we can find alternatives. What about fast cutting that tries, as a part of an action scene’s kinetic drive, to shuttle or bounce the viewer’s attention more widely across the frame? This option wouldn’t be helter-skelter in the Bay manner; it’s calculated, and engenders its own pictorial excitement.


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