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Re: Quantum of Solace

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Originally Posted by King of Snake (Post 105622)

Like Casino Royale, the style is reminiscent of the Bourne movies, with lots of gritty fight scenes and very fast editing, which I must admit I found to be a little too much at times cause it made it kinda hard to follow some of the action. But of course Bond is supposed to be a bit of a loose cannon (even more so than usual) in this movie so the frantic editing style reflects that.

I've not seen it yet, but GOD, I really do dislike watching sequences with that kind of editing. Maybe it's a sign of me getting stuck in my ways, but the last Bourne film was ruined for me by the incessantly shaking camera and frantic editing style. It might be fine in small doses, but it just seems like a cop-out way to convey action, as if they feel that what they're actually shooting is never enough (ha, that sounds like a Bond title!) so they need to shake the camera a bit to hide the flaws and omissions. I know I'm probably in the minority thinking that though.

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I'm starting a rebellion of sorts to that type of editing and over-informative commercials in SE Michigan.
It makes movies poopy.

Vive le resistance.

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I just found that Tomato actually did the location titles for this movie :)
Check tomato.co.uk and scroll down the pictures on the right hand side.
It was definitely something I noticed in the movie right away and though "hey that's pretty cool". I had no idea it was Tomato though.

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oh neat, i didnt know that either. at one point, i actually thought the location was the sign on a building.

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http://goldenfiddle.com/node/13952

Screencaps of all the Tomato panels.

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I didn't realise Tomato were involved either.

Nice job. They'd even look rather nice framed.

Re: Quantum of Solace

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Originally Posted by IsiliRunite (Post 105733)

I'm starting a rebellion of sorts to that type of editing and over-informative commercials in SE Michigan.
It makes movies poopy.

Vive le resistance.

Yeah, I'm with ya. It's such a cop-out way of filming action. And when it carries over into the non-action sequences, well that's just stupid. I'll do my best to fight it from the inside....

Re: Quantum of Solace

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Originally Posted by Deckard (Post 106106)

Nice job. They'd even look rather nice framed.

yep!:D

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Second unit director Dan Bradley speaking about his approach to filming the action sequences in QoS:

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"One of the things I really believe is that we shouldn’t try and make everything feel perfectly staged. I’m always saying to my crew, I want to feel like we were lucky to catch a glimpse of some crazy piece of action. I don’t want it to feel like a movie, where everything is perfectly presented to the audience."

Anything other than this impressionistic approach would be spoon-feeding the audience and not pushing the boundaries, I suppose. :rolleyes:

All this does (IMHO) is disjoin the action from the main move, kind of like the naff way that The Sex Scene in some movies would often feel out of place, lapsing into a silly montage of soft dissolves and self-indulgent fleshy close-ups, before returning to the rest of the film.

My preference is that 'involving' the audience in an action sequence shouldn't have to mean obstructing and confusing them, and it should blend a little more gracefully with the style of the rest of the film.