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All that work totally paid off - I literally remember seeing it in the cinema & thinking “wait - what tf did I just see?? Even now it stands up as a legitimately genius shot concept that was flawlessly executed. Contact really stands up as a true, credible, smart classic - the opening shot also absolutely blew my mind back in the day. Just amazing. Bob Zemeckis is such a visionary filmmaker. Hats off to the entire cast & crew on that movie. 🫡

Unless they study this stuff most people have no idea how complex film making is

i was wondering how they pulled this off, very interesting and well done shot

A 1997 movie still has in 2024 one of the best visual FX I've ever seen.

apart from how she looked like she was running on the spot with her arm movements which somewhat jolted the immersion - it was a great shot! great movie!

Thanks for the word champ

The girl running with her hands clenched looks really fake. Also, no one has all the prescription labels facing out in their medicine cabinet.

I always found this scene to be brilliant, amazing and often wondered how they did it. Thanks for posting.

You always know someone knows their shit when they understand that you have to shoot above your intended delivery resolution if you want it to look its best. For that reason, the people that say you don't need more than a 4K camera are all phocking ree-todds.

Seriously? I couldn't even watch more than 30 seconds. Get to the fucking point.

I assume that the final result here is in fact two shots, and the girl reaches toward the camera, then the cut, and then the hand opening the door.

The movie, just like Carl Sagan's vision, was so much ahead of its time that, if mankind ever had choose a piece of cinematography to represent us, our hopes, our dreams, our struggles, our discord, our fears, our tenacity and outright grit to fight for our beliefs centered around this very monumental event of our first contact, in our first contact with an advanced alien race, the way we attached the gold plated phonograph and pictorial plaque to the Voyager 1 & 2 space probes, the movie 'Contact' would be our perfect 'calling card'. As a human, I'm very proud to live in the times and progress stage of our civilization that coincides with the advent of the visionary outlook of people like Carl Sagan and the producers of this movie to bring into our race's focus the importance of being ready for exactly this kind of eventuality.

piece of crap film.

What I find about these lighting guys is they have incredible skill and are always bragging about how great their lighting is, but then you see the final movie and they always suck shit. No matter how good you are and no matter how good the lighting, the J's making the film will still produce a load of crap.

this wd be useful if he just went thru his charts describing his lighting strategy

2:20 It's funny that he says they couldn't do slow motion in post "back in that era", and yet when George Miller makes his countless tweaks to the speed of his footage _in post,_ all he does is discard frames completely, giving half of the movie a stuttery look, like a video game running on a GPU that can't handle it. Irritating to watch. If there's a better way of doing it now, George Miller is too lazy to use it. Hand-tweaked interpolation might get you there, but having to do that for an hour of footage would end up eating half the entire budget.

o brother where are thou looked TERRIBLE. I hate the gd damn yellow for green crap. ugly

this explanation of flashing and bleach by-pass is entirely not understandable

not interested in the subject matter nor any of the actors. FAIL

When you use VFX to do ordinary things.

where my sae students at

What’s so great about this shot is you don’t realise how clever it is until the pay off. That’s when you sit there in this moment of “wait, did that just happen…” and replay the sequence in your head. It’s a great showcase of expectation and reality conflicting and the cognitive conflict it creates.

Wow, that is a brilliant shot!

Damn. I need to see this movie, that shot is incredible!!

I remember watching this in the theater and thinking....What a great shot.....

A real mind fuck. More directors should make an effort to twist our melons like this.

Brilliant vision, execution and wonderfully shot. A big congratulations to the Whole team!

Jenna was so cute back then. Somethings never change.

I've been Billy's driver on a film called Agaguk back in 1990. A real gentleman.

Stunning shot. Thanks for sharing this!

He explained it, but I still don't fully get it.

I can do this scene easy like nothing. no blue tape needed, just case with mirror, no extra scene set up...

I’m physically angered by how underrated this movie is. In my opinion, Jodie Foster’s most brilliant performance- especially the ending

Brilliant!

When you think about it, if it was shot digitally, apart from all the other things that become easier technically, you'd also know a lot sooner that you got the shot because you can see the footage as you take it and review it immediately.

Is running up stairs backwards a common skill for steadicam operators?

I just completed a full Contax Zeiss range I spent 5 years hunting the most perfect lense set - and now full cine ready ... its time to start saving for cookeS3. .. I saw Zeiss Prime and I hated the price .. but with cooke .. Im getting a new cinema tone .. its worth buying 1 at a time .. what should be my first one ? 50mm? 100?

Now that you slow it down it looks pretty fake, exagerated arm swing, running with short, fake steps. I didn't notice it when I saw the movie.

Absolutely just mind blowing. So brilliant in so many ways…so then on top of this incredibly profound metaphorical film exposer, you have the genius of composer Alan Silvestri who ties it all together and brings it home with his subtle but poignant orchestration ♥️ Brilliant…just brilliant. Ahhhhh the 90s films….

My first feature job was with Mark O’Kane, the Steadicam operator who had to run up those stairs. Strong guy…good guy. Let me try on his rig…made me happy I was only a boom guy with a carbon fiber pole. Great anecdote!

Girl in slow motion runs for medicine for daddy, and what we think of as image is in fact a mirror image. The highest achievement in art ever, no doubt.

I love how the director has all these ideas in his head and nobody in the entire audience ever noticed any of it. The popcorn is a constellation? How much weed did he smoke when he decided that was supposed to be a constellation? Seeing the scene for the first time is just annoying, it's the director being clever to show how clever he is, but the audience is just confused. Also: did you really have a microphone guy running up the stairs? To record what, their footsteps as they run up the stairs? Also also: this is not one take, it's three. You explain how it's three. You explain how it's not actually a big deal at all.

Pourquoi ce type qui gesticule inutilement pendant la moitié du film ?

I thought the technology they used for this was much more advanced that what they had, making what they achieved that much more impressive. No CGI for that shot - just video effects.

Does EVERY Jodie Foster movie have a scene of her as a little girl losing her father?

I learned a lot from this breakdown, but the most valuable takeaway I got was if your movie is going to have a complicated shot in it, give your team _as much time as you can_ to prepare.

Genius shot in a genius film.

Whoever edited this video, seemingly had no idea, and completely failed to check [standard for half-arsed editors] what he was referring to when cited the "constellation" formation in the popcorn, and so just they just decided to zoom in on a random pile of popcorn. The constellation is to the right - and is a motif throughout the film. *slow hand clap for ill-researched content creation*

How can i set the lower power mode permanently on my o3 air unit?

How would the medicine save her father after he had already had whatever episode it was that killed him? He still needs to ingest the medicine and allow it to work through his system.