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Here's another one. They have seven people just standing in rows, looking right at each other and talking. They location doesn't even matter. This could have been in a throne room, eating dinner, at a ball, riding horses, watching a joust or literally anything, but they're just standing in...

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I hate the way modern movies are shot. Here's a scene from the 2024 Netflix movie Damsel, which I just watched last night. Notice how it's basically just two characters talking while looking directly at each other, filmed in a lazy shot/reverse shot fashion where one character will be filmed in a medium shot or close-up, then it will cut to a medium shot or close-up of the other character, and it just goes back and forth like that until they're done talking and one of them leaves. Notice how they have this interesting location where a lot could be going on, but one of the characters is just kind of fucking around, pretending to do something with the flowers until it's time for the other character to start talking to them, then when they're done talking, she just leaves instead of continuing whatever it was she was doing when the other character came in. It's like the scene was written with only dialog, and they didn't have anything in mind for the characters to be doing other than talking, so the director just told that one lady to fuck around with the flowers until the other actress made it to her mark so it wouldn't just start with her standing around. The context of this scene is one character is realizing the other character is hiding something sinister. Until this point, we don't know that the lady on the left is evil and is taking advantage of the lady on the right. The scene starts with Bad Lady up on the platform, which physically places her higher in the scene; a visually dominant position. But then Good Lady steps up onto the platform with her, visually putting them on equal footing, which contradicts the purpose of the scene. They could have had Good Lady looking up at Bad Lady from below, then at the critical moment, had Bad Lady lean over the rail while talking down to Good Lady, using her body language to convey a sense of power over her. I mean, that's not much, but it would have been something. Most of the talking scenes in this movie are shot this way. It's so bland that I wondered if they used the Volume, but then I found out they actually shot these scenes at real locations. They were given permission to film at these amazing locations, but barely utilized them to their visual storytelling potential.

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