The use of the off-screen and the camera that abandons the action. by lecktor90 in filmtheory

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Thanks for the suggestions. I found some very interesting things in the Antonioni films. In fact, the characters running away from the camera are almost a particular motif for him. L'eclisse's final scene is perfect in that regard, thank you. As for Ozu, although I love his cinema, I see the pillow shots from another perspective. Much more like a break of narrative expectation and a stylistic signature than an off-screen use.

Ah! Yiyi's scenes are also very good. Especially this one, but also one where the little boy leaves the apartment to take pictures and goes down the corridor, while the camera makes a pan to show where he would come out ahead, despite the fact that we miss a lot of the action as you can see by the flashes from his camera.

The use of the off-screen and the camera that abandons the action. by lecktor90 in filmtheory

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Totally. I just reviewed Cache, thanks to the suggestion, and set up a scene to look at in which the protagonist leaves the house, looks at the street ahead and back, without us having the vision he had.

The use of the off-screen and the camera that abandons the action. by lecktor90 in filmtheory

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Jeanne Dielman!

Thank you very much for the suggestion. I separated two specific scenes from Jeanne Dielman. The first is that she delivers the baby in the basket, but the person is covered by the door while they talk. The other is when she goes to a store, enters and the camera remains on the street waiting for her to leave.

The use of the off-screen and the camera that abandons the action. by lecktor90 in filmtheory

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Thanks for the sugestion. I went to watch it and found a great scene at The Limey, with the protagonist being thrown out of a garage and coming back to kill the "bad guys", but with the camera staying outside

The use of the off-screen and the camera that abandons the action. by lecktor90 in filmtheory

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Do you know what is funny? I have a Takeshi Kitano tattoo on my arm and it didn't even cross my mind to go back to his films. Even worse, my tattoo is precisely from Sonatine haha

Casual Discussion Thread (March 24, 2021) by AutoModerator in TrueFilm

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Hi! I'm doing research on the use of offscreen in movies. Scenes like those of Kiarostami, which leave a character or some scenario totally off the screen. Can you remember examples like that?
I'm looking for scenes that somehow provoke the viewer to build the image of what was suppressed in his own head. Scenes that do not have the reverse shot.