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Spielberg is one of the best to ever do it with almost no misses.
What’s the movie with street and cars?
Steven who 😜
Tom Cruise is pretty good at geography too. There was a special feature on the MI3 DVD (yes I'm old) where he and JJ Abrams discuss the geography for the missile on the bridge scene.
Also, I seem to remember a pretty good column on Terry Rossio and Ted Elliott's Wordplayer site about putting action geography in the script. Something they learned from Spielberg. And I think they used to take a corkboard into pitch meetings to show the storyboards for those sequences too?
Except for Jurassic Park where a massive trench appears out of nowhere in the T-Rex breakout, haha.
It should be said that Jurassic Park is my all time favorite movie.
I love these bite sized crash courses in film literacy!
For Close Encounters, he put a mountain in Muncie, Indiana and also put it on the Ohio border.
It's a minor miracle he got Devil's Tower in the correct state…
love your channel btw theese short is so wonderful keep up the good work much love <3
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What?? The whole Trex thing was messed up!
Except for the non existent shot establishing the huge trench that is suddenly willed into existence.
My problem with Spielberg has always been his very casual relationship with audience immersion and explaining why they don't have to explain illogical things in movies. He says, it's a movie, no one will care!
Except, by the time I'm walking to my car, I suddenly think, how was there just a hand on the steering wheel to the boat, but the trex and her baby are locked in the hold? The door was closed. There's no exterior damage. How did the hand get there?
And just like that, the movie is ruined.
Paul Greengrass took one long at how hard that is to do and just went "No, just disorient the viewer with bad camera work"
The raptor kitchen scene still haunts my nightmares 31 years later. I think that speaks to its effectiveness haha