when the director actually lets the tension build
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- Опубліковано 4 лис 2022
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What makes films like The Godfather and Inglourious Basterds so great? Well for one, their pacing. They know when to slow things down and let the tension in a scene build. So let's take a look at what that looks like.
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What’s a scene from a movie that you think does tension or pacing particularly well?
Last time I tried to make my Indian friend to watch Godfather, he died at just 20 minutes of the movie, majority of the population is indoctrinated with super fast pacing film (more than your average Marvel movie) and its hard to make them watch some classics.
Reminds me of that Hitchcock quote about showing the audience a bomb under a table and suspense!
you've given more value in this 3 and half minute video than most people do in 20 minute video essays. short, sweet, and to the point, while still ... keeping its pauses and having a structure of its own. absolutely beautiful.
did you really build tension in the end between saying your name and “thank you for watching”? if it was intentional, it’s so cool
I know anime isn’t for everyone but the scene in Attack on Titan where Eren is having a conversation in the basement under the apartment building and stage is one of the most incredible examples of this I have ever seen in any show or movie.
One of my mentors said something about this: storytelling is the art of knowing how to delay.
The Pie scene in which Hans basically interrogates Shosanna over the theater is so well done. Along with the underground bar scene. Inglourious Basterds is full of suspenseful scenes.
Unfortunately, current audiences seem to get bored the very second the plot isn’t moving forward through instant action-packed scenes.
Tension and pauses are so important to a scene and a film as a whole. It's really become an issue with big Hollywood films. One example is the Star Wars sequels and how awful their pacing is because of the constant cuts to the next shot and pushing snappy story beats instead of dwelling for any amount of time on something. My favorite GOOD example somewhat recently was Bladerunner 2049, my goodness do they let the tension build in that movie so fantastically.
I wonder if Tik tok kids will kill pacing.
Excellent choice of ending with that pause, really sold the point you were making!
My favorite part about that scene in The Godfather is that everything goes according to plan, and it's still incredibly intense. The only difference was actually in the "fast paced" edit, Michael was told to come out of the bathroom and shoot immediately.
Quentin Taratino was explaining in an interview how, usually, the longer a scene last, the less efficient or interesting it gets. It starts feeling like a filer, or some joke with a punch that would not come. However, for the introduction of Hans Landa in Inglorious Bastard, it was actually the opposite. The longer the scene lasted, the more intense it would get, and it became a challenge of ''how far can I stretch this elastic before it snaps''.
Bro these short but clear and to the point vid essays helps my dumbass brain frfr
Love how Tarintino perfects the standard formula so he never fails but he does it do bloody and high stakes with the movies settings it’s a guaranteed win. Takes his time to drag out everything.
To me what most modern movies lack is decent pacing. And not just the overall tension building that you have explained but the utter lack of depth that simple distance in scenes,emotions,dialogues and tensions should convey within a proper well placed narrative. Instead everything is rushed,time and space in scenes is seemingly ignored and it creates a 2 dimensional view that is lackluster at best.
The scene in No Country For Old Men where Llewelyn encounters Anton is just brilliant buildup of tension. The whole movie really. But that scene you’re just anticipating what Anton will do from the other side of the door. You see his shadow stand there briefly; then he goes over and slowly turns off the lights. And then the audience gets this sudden audio of the door knob shooting off across the room. I just love that movie.
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One of my favorite parts of that Godfather scene is the fact that he sits down, Clemenza when instructing him tells him to come out of the bathroom and kill them right away, but Michael sits, not only building tension, but also showing his last moments of doubt and the exact point where he sets down on the path of becoming the Don. Great video!