When is a "goof" not a goof? When it's Godard!


I was going to write in an mention a tracking shot where the girl meets up with her lover at an airport hotel as a "goof". During the tracking show, we twice see the camera operator tracking along with the girl sitting in a wheelchair. The wheelchair is reflected quite clearly and obviously in some two sections of a wall.

But, being Godard, he probably just left it in, and almost hoping that eagle-eyed viewers would see the wheelchair! Plus, being a low-budget film, there obviously weren't going to be re-takes.

But, I prefer to believe that Godard would enjoy the idea of viewers seeing the 'magic' of movie-making being winked at!

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we twice see the camera operator tracking


Reminds me of the old saying : "When playing jazz, if you make a mistake do it a second time so it's not a mistake anymore".

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