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Man on Fire 2004
This has to be Apex Tony Scott. He’s operating at Thetan nine the whole film with some incredibly outrageous cinematic techniques that are absolutely overwhelming at times. But here’s what makes him different from the hacks that try to imitate this style because it’s propulsive and cool, it is always done with a purpose. He knows how to shoot a very straight forward shot reverse shot conversation and can do that like the best of them, he can shoot the…
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Oppenheimer 2023
It feels as though Nolan’s career has built to the achievement of this film, a crowning one. I’ve often found his use of cross-cutting throughout his career to be trying, an attempt to ratchet up tension that occasionally works but quickly becomes tired. It’s also been criticised for being confusing and to that end I feel the technique is not really at fault but rather the story as a whole. Cases of it not working are films like Interstellar, Tenet…
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