Top Ten Classic Long Shots in World Cinema

I. The World of Two in The Platform: As far as I'm concerned, The Platform is Jia Zhangke's best movie so far. The movie conveys too many complex emotions through the change of times, and Jia Zhangke's aesthetics of the long shot movie is also perfectly presented in the movie. In that most enjoyable passage, the long shot records everything calmly, and the world of two people on the city wall is no longer cozy and sweet. Second, the fight of "Winter Shade": Long shot is not the patent of realist films or literary films, in the Thai commercial blockbuster "Winter Shade", director Bachai Pingqiao surprisingly created a four-minute long shot of the fight, so that action superstar Tony Jaa fights from downstairs all the way to upstairs, and often adopts a different way of knocking down the opponent. This does require quite deep directing skills, and all aspects of the preparation should be well thought out, because the slightest carelessness will have to NG, and the previous series of filming efforts will be wasted! Third, the beginning of the "big event": from a bandit to go upstairs to meet with the gang, to the downstairs streets of the police officers of the Major Crimes Unit to wait for rabbits; from the bandits with the patrol's small disputes, to the Major Crimes Unit intentionally create strife to lead away from the patrol ...... From the small dispute between the criminals and the police to the deliberate disputes created by the Serious Crimes Unit to distract the police to the final street firefight between the police and the criminals, the seven-minute long shot at the beginning of The Big Event utilizes a flexible and unusual in-camera scheduling of the scene to record a series of events occurring in the same time period for us. There are no spectacle-style action displays, only the respective activities of the two groups, the bandits and the police, and the final intersection of the action. Abandoning the mandatory frame cuts, the long shot screen time looks more natural! Fourth, the crying of Viva La Amor: Crying! Crying again! Crying again! Crying again! It's endless! Why are you crying again? It's time to cry for fun! I think this is probably how the audience felt when they watched the end of "Long Live Love" without any mental preparation. Tsai Ming-liang's seven-minute-long, motionless long shot brutally records the woman's emotional outpouring. Endless tears lure us into her world, following her with heartbreak, together with the sadness V. The surrealism of "Tale of the Rainy Moon": Kenji Mizoguchi's "Tale of the Rainy Moon" has a long shot that shocked the world of cinema: the hero, Genjiro, enters his home from the front door and finds it empty, and then shouts out his wife's name as he walks out of the side door. The camera pans from the side door back to the front door again, and we can see the anxiously searching Genjuro between the cracks in the windows as he turns around and re-enters through the front door. And by this time, to our surprise, we realize that Miyagi has quietly sat in the middle of the room around a wood fire cooking his dinner. The long shot will be surrealist colors into the superb scene scheduling skills, showing the charm of the Oriental film! Six, "Paris, Texas" "monologue": Wenders' "Paris, Texas" shows the stretch of time, when the hero Tavis and his former wife Jane in the pornographic show again in the small room, he turned his back to Jane will be his own so many years of inner feelings and suffering experience in a soothing tone of narration. Actor Harry Stanton's emotions flow naturally, no traces of sculpture, which also reflects a major advantage of the long shot, is to bring full freedom to the actor's performance, helps the character's emotional coherence, so that the important dramatic action can be complete and richly layered performance! Seven, "occupation: the reporter" of the end: Antonioni's "occupation: the reporter" presents the identity of modern people lost and an unspeakable sense of the absurd, the end of the subversion of the traditional narrative techniques of the marvelous long shot is absolutely the essence of the film. See Locke lying on a bed in a small hotel, the camera is equipped with iron bars from the window slowly pushed outward, after scanning the entire square and then from the outside perspective to the house peeping (this time there are a lot of seemingly illogical, in fact, but the development of the events play a leading role in the elements), and at this point in the scene is the death of Locke, the police arrived and his wife's face of consternation! Eight, "Irrevocable" full film: With the experimental nature of the "Irrevocable", the whole 99 minutes of time total **** only 10 long shots, so each shot is a full 10 minutes so long. From the beginning of the gay club in the shaking dizzying dark images to the 10-minute-long famous rape scene to the final sunny meadow of harmony and warmth, director Gasparino is really a bit bold, he let the screen time process completely contrary to the law of entropy in physics! Nine, "Soul Snatchers" full film: "Soul Snatchers" based on the famous case, but in the image of Hitchcock's a bold experiment. The movie he played the long shot to the extreme, looks almost no editing, completely breaking the rules of montage, no switching, no positive and negative hit, a lens from beginning to end, complete record of the whole process of events. But in fact, Hitchcock still used the actor's body gradually take up the whole picture and then pull away and other tricks, making the link between the shots on the screen presents a seamless effect, so the whole photography feels like a one-shot mold! Ten, "Russian Ark" full film: This is a real only one lens to complete the shooting of the feature film. The whole movie in St. Petersburg. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts in a single uninterrupted shooting up to 96 minutes, Sokolov's camera through 35 exhibition halls and 850 people composed of space, walked more than two kilometers. From costumes to fashions, all the performances of the actors in a single, carefully crafted frame were precise and beautiful, based on pre-designed designs, and truly synchronized with the time of the shoot and the time of the film. Thus, a long shot skimmed over the vast history of Russia for 300 years, and also accomplished a monumental miracle in the history of cinema.