If they use a tightly zoomed perspective, they either take longer to cut from it, or use less camera movement. They always make sure one of the 3 elements of shot duration, camera movement or focal length are allowing for clarity. The close quarters probably made multi-cam use very difficult as they fight their way down the stairs, but you can track the moments almost perfectly between editing points, it's so damn tight: Īlso when they use shaky movement or long lenses, they tend to hold on those shots for long enough, so that clarity is still maintained. That is just perfect choreography and editing.Īlso the stair fight in Casino Royale is similarly immaculately planned and executed. Look at the cut from the landing, to Craigs face as he rolls on the ground to track the bad guy again. It's perfectly cut together, 3 shots that really feel like one, the movement and momentum of the body, the way he falls and lands. One of my favourite moments in this chase is at 3:42 ( ), where Craig jumps from the crane onto the house roof, then flipping to the ground via a paneling of some sort. Similarly to T2, there is a strong sense of sequences playing out in one long cohesive movement, rather than feeling like start-stop single shots strung together. Where less clear action shooting tends to cut as fast as possible to I suppose give a sense of energy just from the sheer sense of movement, which tends to fall flat since movement without context is barely more than white noise for the eyes.

It allows us to see things for longer than they might actually have taken in real life. This segmentation is what I love about for example James Camerons direction in T2. I can see anyone else just doing a 1 second cutaway to the badguy, then a whip-pan to the machinery, and then back to craig already moving away. Like the shot just 5 seconds in, we see Craig vault over the fence and land in a crouched position, then we cut to his POV, which allows plenty of time to see the bad guy running away, and a nice, slow pan to the machinery, before we cut back to Craig as he moves from the crouched position. And in general they hold on shots that wonderful extra half a second, allowing someone to completely exit the frame before cutting, or just allowing us to keep up in general. They don't rush through the action, rather they allow for longer shots that slightly break up the flow of the action, for the sake of geographical clarity.

Unlike QoS, the camera angles and also most importantly the editing is so fucking on point in Casino Royale.

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