Name: Another 5 Brilliant Moments in Film
Uploaded: 2019-01-29T08:58:42.000Z
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So when counting backwards from 10 gets us down.

Sometimes we take a page out of our hippy kindergarten teacher's playbook.

And declare that nothing is better than anything else, and

everything is special in its very own special way.

So here, for no real reason or in any particular order,

are another five brilliant moments in film.

We're taking a look at a little moment we like towards the end of

Leonardo DiCaprio plays Frank Abagnale Jr., a famous check forger and lawyer,

doctor, pilot, cos-player who's defrauded millions of dollars by age 18.

By this point in the movie after nearly two hours and a few years of cat and

After a few years in jail, Abagnale is released way early under Hanratty's

supervision in order to work a nine to five for the FBI bank fraud division.

doesn't much enjoy the salary man life which leads us here.

you mind if I come to work with you tomorrow?

I'm flying to Chicago to see my daughter.

(Sound) - So what should I do until Monday?

- I'm sorry kid, I can't help you there, excuse me.

(Noise) - We're all pretty sure Frankie's up

but the scene, which seems like it might as well be over, doesn't stop here.

I have a half a dozen more checks on that tour operator on The BVI.

- And we think it's this last little bit that changes everything.

It transforms the scene from a one dimensional plot-point

to the beginning of a two-sided conflict.

Frank Abagnale Jr. slips away, but holding here asks us something.

Does Agent Hanratty suspect Frank Abagnale Jr.?

It introduces uncertainty with nothing more than this last subtle moment of

a pause, a look, a double-take, and a linger.

And because we know, as always, that the camera only shows us what we need to see.

It's the simple fact that it chooses to hold on a scene we think is over that

And asks us to consider what's going on behind these little nuances.

It actually ups its emphasis with a push.

This part is extra important the camera move says,

And it's not just extra emphasis intention in a vacuum.

It fits into the greater dramatic context of the scene.

how the characters move with respect to each other.

DiCaprio practically chases Tom Hanks around his office.

Trying to catch his attention but never succeeding.

But then we get this little seemingly unimportant button that flips it on

You have to run away to get chased and it works.

What's more, it slots in perfectly to the entire theme of the film.

The story of a boy who wants to run and by doing so wants to be chased.

Right here, embedded in the quiet dead space of a walk out the door.

(Sound) It is an immense challenge to walk the line between unnoticed and obvious.

To make us suspect something, but not believe it.

To give us a thought, but not the certainty.

It's like a ping to the subconscious, planting little sleeper

cells in our awareness to awaken later for greater effect.

Another film we think does this brilliantly is, Everest.

Our second moment comes early into the film as a group of climbers prepare for

an Everest summit bid during the very beginning of its commercial guiding era.

Crowds on the mountain have already very nearly resulted in disaster.

So Rob Hall, our expedition leader played by Jason Clarke,

decides to team up with a rival expedition Jake Gyllenhaal's Scott Fischer.

- Well, if I say I'll do, it will be done.

(Inaudible) because we are working together now.

(Foreign) - We're all professionals here.

We'll work together and we'll get the job done.

idea is that we work together and we fixed ropes together, we share the duties, okay?

- Okay, you and (Inaudible) maybe get together and

talk about who wants to fix what and where, okay?

- Only essentials, I'm not going to tell you what to pack, but be brutal.

- How do you feel at the end of that last scene?

you hardly had time to register more than just a slight sense of something.

We're not sure what, before being rushed along to the next.

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