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that scene of the men laying in a circle on deck under the stars, with that incredible pan backwards / upwards into the Heavens !💥

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That was some slick film making.

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I thought I was the only one!

It reminded me of the shot in Sicario where the cast is descending out of the shot while being set against (I think) a setting sun.

Both are superb visuals.

In a society where a film defined as being 'slow' is a negative and editing in general reflects this, well it makes me want the director/cinema-photographer to hold their nerve and go for the vast sweeping shoots. They did in both films.

The best example, of course, of shots of this kind is Omar Sharif appearing out of the horizon in Laurence of Arabia.

All three shots make me think "Going on, hold it. Don't cut. Don't cut. Don't cut."

However the irony is that David Lean, director of said film, admitted that initially the sequence was 10 minutes long and focused purely on Sharif. Instead Lean, by his own admission, bottled it by inter cutting to reaction shots of Peter O'Toole.

Don't be too hard on yourself Lean it turned out just fine.

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