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Hey gang,at the beginning of Welles' Touch Of Evil,you'll see a long complicated shot with a boom mounted camera tracing the insertion of a bomb in a car trunk,the car driving SLOWLY thru traffic,passing by Charleton Heston & Vivian Leigh where it then explodes shortly after going by the camera.I feel this would be among the longest in cinematic history.Anyone like to weigh in on this?-Bob
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F.W. Murnau's complex shot starts with Janet Gaynor's realization that her confused guilt-ridden husband, George O'Brian, had considered murdering her and transports the viewer across the village lake, then onto the shore, up the wooded hill and without any break in the action "we" board the train and follow them, examining every nuance of their traumatic journey into the amazing city Murnau had constructed for the film, making this one of the longest and grandest tracking shots ever composed!AuPh
...the long tracking shot where Henry Hill whisks his date out of the car, across the street, into the nightclub though the back door, down the hall, through the kitchen, into the restaurant, through a jungle of tables right up onto the edge of the stage.There's another, interesting tracking shot slightly earlier in the film, in the local bar as the wise guys are introduced individually in VO by Hill, who tells us each mobster's nick-name and defining charactersitics.
Also in "Raging Bull" there is a similar stunning tracking shot as DiNero/Lamotta enters the ring from the bowels of the Garden.
At the end of the big battle. I haven't timed it, but I think it rivals Touch of Evil--intentionally.John K.
The Longest Day... I just don't know how many minutes.Joseph
Joseph,I thought so at first, as well, remembering this film from a History Channel 'Movies in Time' session where they mentioned the scene at Oistreaum (sp?) as being one of the longest continuous shots in film. So, I just pulled out my 'The Longest Day' DVD and timed it out at only a minute 30. Still, being a war movie, this was an awfully long shot considering.
Still, 'The Longest Day' is one of the last great war movies, IMO, from a time before war films degraded to a competition between directors over how much blood and how many severed limbs they could fit in.
- JP
There's a stunning continuous scene in John Woo's last Hong Kong film Hard Boiled that's about three minutes long. The setup is a running gun battle in an evacuated hospital between two heroes and dozens of nameless gunsels. In this sequence Chow Yun - Fat and Tony Leung get into an elevator, reload their guns, get off on another floor, and fight their way down several hallways. What makes it remarkable is that there are dozens of gunshot and explosion effects and stunts that had to be done in real time. I read that Woo said that due to the number of effects he couldn't afford to shoot the scene twice so he had to get it right the first time. It's an amazing bravura display of directorial confidence. It's also exciting as hell to watch.
Very beginning of the movie. I don't know about the longest, but it is certainly beauty motion. Longest complex scene of movement I have ever seen without a cut. Can't imagine how many takes to get that shot right. Altman at his best....
...by a couple characters in that self-same opening shot, it's a witty Altamn homage to a similar looooong opening take in Welle's Touch Of Evil.I've got both on DVD - I haven't timed them but I think The Player's is maybe longer.
Also, the man being lectured to asks the tracking shot advocate about Antonini's "The Sheltering Sky" and the advocate admits he has never seen it.
...I meant to include that these two long tracking shots are each a little over 7 minutes long.
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And what a fascinating film, too!
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Ah, the young girrrrls.....
It starts outside and slowly (very slowly!) enters a building, goes up two flights of stairs, and ends up in an apartment murder scene. Incredible shot.Don't know its length; may or may not be as long as Wells'.
My brother is a film buff. In a conversation several years ago he brought up this film and said it was the longest continual shot ever in film. He would know...
For a second longest take a look at Robert Altman's "The Player".BTW, Welles had a nine minute continuous tracking shot in "The Magnificent Ambersons" which the studio destroyed when cutting the over two hour film to 88 minutes.
stopping only to replace film?
It was "Rope" but 1) it was not one long tracking shot, and 2) there were some edits (few but some).
Yeah, Rope, in 1948, which was made up of continuous 10 minute segments.se
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