En af de film der for alvor har fået bevågenhed de seneste par uger er Sam Mendes' kommende krigsdrama, 1917, der skildrer to soldaters forsøg på at advare 1600 soldater, før de stormer direkte i døden. Trailerne har været ganske flotte, men nu ved vi lidt mere om filmen, og det lader til at der findes noget langt mere imponerende om selve den tekniske opsætning - den er filmet i én lang ubrudt sekvens.
I et interview med IGN fortæller Mendes og filmfotograf Doger Deakins, at de ønskede at bibeholde intensitetet og holde rejsen "intakt", og dermed er filmen et enkelt "one-shot".
"I wanted to tell a story about two men in real time and I wanted to do it with no cuts, and then I wrote the script from that point. So it was baked into it. It was style and content married together right from the beginning. But having said that, one of the reasons I wanted to get this out [now] was because I didn't really want it to be in the forefront of people's minds when they saw the movie. Sort of let that piece of information settle in a little bit. I think if you're seeing it and you're watching what the camera's doing, then we failed a little bit. The scale of what Roger does, which is extreme, is to make the camera sort of invisible," siger Mendes.
Den seneste store film der var et langt skud var Birdman, der desuden vandt en række Oscar-priser tilbage i 2014.
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