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Thinking about it, there was a lot of that sort of thing. That's interesting, I shall keep in mind.
Where the Revenant scores is the amount of action it puts into one 'take' or scene whilst the camera is rolling. So co-oridinating all the movements of the cast and camera become theatrical and precise. People falling out of trees in the same take as horses trotting past - all whilst the camera is moving and being focussed - in the muddy snow hell!
Yeah, I'm going to have to go ahead and say that's probably not what happened. Alejandro González Iñárritu's previous film, Birdman, looks like it was all shot in one go. It wasn't, but clever editing makes it look that way
Given he has previous it's not a great leap of faith to believe that he used the same techniques in The Revenant.
Ox - bit of confusion here: Birdman is shot to make it look like it's one take. Invisible edits make it appear to be one take. However the individual takes are still long and complex.
As for Revenant - the intention is not one long take like Birdman - just long complex scenes/set-ups per take.
There was the odd invisible edit but still incredible film making.
Saw it last night. Very impressive in many ways but the second half needed more story/plot and less almost-death.
+1 Some scenes didn't quite work - eg. camera work on the final fight was annoying.
First 10 mins, the bear scene, and the horse sleeping bag were absolutely brilliant though.
Opening scene in Heat is a continuous take, havent seen this film but the trailer makes it look like a snowy bog so to do long takes with lots of action would be very difficult.
I liked it
I couldn't help but think Cormac McCarthy whilst I was watching it, was like a cinematic version of one of his books (not a lot happens at times but the scene setting keeps you engaged)
Saw this last night I enjoyed it. But can anyone help me the bit at the end with the stick and the dead body? What western was this copied from? Oh and "i thought they smelled bad on the outside".
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, is all I can say. Loved the landscapes etc, but thought it dragged on and on.
Nice Oscar tribute - needs sound...
😀 that's ACE!
Better than the film itself.
was boringly crap
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I enjoyed it very much but I like westerns and I like epics so it was always going to my thing.
Bit late to the party ..
Long dragged out film that you just want to end because you can only put up with "OMG! He survived, again" so many times. Beautifully filmed though.
+1
Very late! (Wondered why this appeared back at the top of my threads started list).
Guess you can't've seen it at the cinema - watched on TV with my son recently and it's not the same film, much less involving. Especially the "one take" battle scene - however the bear looked less CGI on the small screen.
Still brilliant though.
ps. 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is getting a new cinema release. I'd love to see that on the big screen, so hoping it gets shown down here.
ps. 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is getting a new cinema release. I'd love to see that on the big screen, so hoping it gets shown down here.
Good shout! Will look out for this 🙂