Post by krburg on Apr 24, 2012 12:55:19 GMT
What are some of your favourite scenes in films, for any particular reason. Could be dialogue, cinematography, the score, anything?
Inspired by reading a piece on the similarities to Hitchcock's Psycho and Orson Welle's 'Touch of Evil', the latter of which features one of my all time favourite scenes.
It is infact the opening scene of the film, from 1958. Most people consider this Welle's last great film and they probably would be right, even though the studio mutilated his version on release. Furiously, he famously penned a 58 page memo to the studio detailing exactly what he wanted and a version as close to this vision was re cut about 10 years ago.
This is the only version of the film I have seen, but the opening is something magic, a three and a half minute single shot, done on a camera mounted on a crane that spans apparently 700 yards and follows firstly a car that has had a bomb planted into it, before picking up stars Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh as they casually stroll across the Mexican border. There isn't a single cut and the way the camera meanders and weaves in, out and above buildings, people and the traffic is astounding. It must have taken an age to choreograph it.
Apparently the opening scene to Psycho was Hitchcock's attempt to outdo Welle's, but I don't think he succeeded.
Anyway, here is the opening scene from Touch of Evil:
Inspired by reading a piece on the similarities to Hitchcock's Psycho and Orson Welle's 'Touch of Evil', the latter of which features one of my all time favourite scenes.
It is infact the opening scene of the film, from 1958. Most people consider this Welle's last great film and they probably would be right, even though the studio mutilated his version on release. Furiously, he famously penned a 58 page memo to the studio detailing exactly what he wanted and a version as close to this vision was re cut about 10 years ago.
This is the only version of the film I have seen, but the opening is something magic, a three and a half minute single shot, done on a camera mounted on a crane that spans apparently 700 yards and follows firstly a car that has had a bomb planted into it, before picking up stars Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh as they casually stroll across the Mexican border. There isn't a single cut and the way the camera meanders and weaves in, out and above buildings, people and the traffic is astounding. It must have taken an age to choreograph it.
Apparently the opening scene to Psycho was Hitchcock's attempt to outdo Welle's, but I don't think he succeeded.
Anyway, here is the opening scene from Touch of Evil:
