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1917
#1
Oners give me a boner.

Sorry, sorry, I've always wanted to say that here.  Only DOOM might understand.  

Oners - aka one-ers - is a not-used-enough slang for, well, a lot of things but among them, a single sustained shot, no cuts.  It all started when I was little.  Watching Shaw Bro & Golden Harvest exposed me to one-er - the kind of skill needed to do that with Kung Fu is inspirational.  And after my extensive career in front of the camera, I know first-hand how hard it can be.  When I was filming Season 2 of Man at Arms, my best line was 'penis'.  That took like 300 takes to get perfect.  You have no idea how many moving parts are in a long one-er.  Well, maybe Greg does - but was there ever a one-er in any of his films?  

Of course I mean a metaphoric boner.  Thank you all for letting me express myself.

1917 is an incredible ride. Top DOOM recommendations with the added rec to see it on the BIG SCREEN.  It is eye-poppingly cinematic, and spotting those digital one-er stitches is part of the fun.  But overlooking the one-er masterpiece that this is, I found it very engaging from the start, a gritty edge-of-your-seat WWI trench warfare epic.  Fools will compare it to Saving Private Ryan because it's a mission deep behind enemy lines to make a rescue, but that's like comparing M.A.S.H. to Apocalypse Now.  Great action, suspense, and storytelling.  I felt rewarded to see it in the theater.

As a weird aside, I just put together something about one of the stars - Dean-Charles Chapman.  He was also on GOT as Tommen Baratheon.  He was also on...Into the Badlands.  I kinda blew him off.  We had a chance to interview him, but that was at the very end and our reporter team was burnt, including our press rep escort, so no one pursued it.  Maybe he went to dinner with us when I sat next to...omg Emily Beecham.  Maybe?  I don't really remember if he was there or not.  Now I'm a little bummed because I have so little memory of him and here he is delivering an amazing performance in an incredible film. I'll have to look through my notes (here) and if I have any recordings. I don't think so.
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#2
The Making of 1917

This is one of those 20 min shorts. It could've gone an hour. The BTS for this film is ridiculous. It's such a technical achievement in filmmaking that this little promo vid could hardly capture it. 

This is in our Netflix queue because I absolutely must see it again and Stacy has to see it too (although she's not as into oners as I am). Y'all need to see this too. You missed out by not catching it on the big screen.
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Saw it. Loved it. Blown away by the technical aspects of it. So much tension throughout. I can't wait to see the making of. It must have been a logistical nightmare. What do you do when you screw up the take halfway through. Aaaarggh.

I'd say it was much more cinematic than Parasite and would have been my pick for best pic.
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(06-29-2020, 05:39 AM)Greg Wrote: Saw it. Loved it. Blown away by the technical aspects of it. So much tension throughout. I can't wait to see the making of. It must have been a logistical nightmare. What do you do when you screw up the take halfway through. Aaaarggh.

I'd say it was much more cinematic than Parasite and would have been my pick for best pic.

There are some mistakes and they had to just run with it.

And as much as I rejoiced for the Academy's nod to K-flix, I totally agree. This was by far the best pic of last year. I eager to watch it again.
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I hope they paid the steadi-cam operator a lot of money.
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The 'making of' vid I watched above was unsatisfactory. There needs to be a longer one. It dwelled on the trench, which was impressive - like a mile long - but I wanted more. 

But yeah, as single-takes go, this is the best one so far. Mind boggling. And a great story too. I was on the edge of my seat for the whole ride.
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I saw three of the making of videos that came with the DVD. They were really good in explaining the trickery that went into the making of the movie. The best insight was they timed how long each scene was and how far they traveled in the scene and that's how long the set had to be built. Totally ass backwards in terms of set construction, but they had to do it.

They showed the lighting for the burning church in Écoust-Saint-Mein and basically it was a massive structure of lights, one on top of the other, in the shape of the church. There was a lot of how they went from one camera rig to the next. It was all fabulous.

I wish they had delved into the plane crash shot at the farm house more. Because that is an amazing shot. I'd like to know how they did it. Although they did mention the whole farmhouse set was built from scratch.

It's all amazing. I might have to watch it again with the commentary tracks on.
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(04-20-2020, 10:00 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: You missed out by not catching it on the big screen.

Were those 'making of's on the Netflix DVD? Eager to see that. The one I watched posted above was on one of my streaming platforms but I don't remember which one now. My bad for not making note.
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Yes. Those were on the Netflix DVD. There were four behind the scenes and two different commentary tracks.
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Seen again. Still impressive, even more so in some ways because I can look at it from a technical standpoint. Some of those shots are so brilliant and knowing the story already allowed me to see them better. Stacy was duly impressed as well. 

I'm eager to see what Mendes does next. 

I'll watch the DVD BTS stuff tomorrow.
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