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POSTED BY: Nandifan
UPDATED: Saturday, February 4, 2006 19:26
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PRAIRIEDOGG

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 6:41 AM

dangit! that was mine! you see her feet and from the opposite side of the screen her head appears. Fantastic! my favorite

"You're such a boob." - River

MISSTRESSAHARA

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 8:43 AM

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Originally posted by Blueishbrowncoat:
ooOOOOooo....GOOOOD THREAD

Off the top of my head (beside that 4 min masterpiece in the begining of the BDM) is the shot where the camera starts in Mal's bunk, with him and that preceeds him up the ladder and watches him walk off....just awesome. I have no clue where thats from though. One of the 1st few eps.

*siiiiigh* I guess I'll have to watch the episodes find somemore. :)

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Serenity pilot. It was a shot that Joss wanted to set up and his cameramen were able to do by making up a rig that pulled the camera by a rope just as Mal comes out of his quarters. He talks about it in the commentary.

One of the best shots, Serenity pilot again when they go to make their deal with Patience, she wants to see the goods and we see a close up of Mal pulling his coat aside to show his gun and a piece of the cargo, in slow motion. Beauty shot. Makes me gooey inside when I see it.

Of course there are others. Who cannot love Mal walking into the bay, pulling his gun out and shooting Dobson without so much as a wink. I laugh everytime I see it, and slow mo just to get the full effect.

Mal, once again, kicking Crow into the engine. When I saw that I was hooked. I had always screamed at movies where they let these big dangerous men live so they can come and cause more damamge when it was easier to kill them right there. You wonder, why the hell are they letting him live? (felt that same way when Mal let the Operative live. You kicked Crow into an engine and got rid of other enemies, why let this most dangerous one go? I never understood till I read the comments people made about the Operative having his world shattered by what he saw and Mals letting him live was a worse punishment then death, but that's for another thread.) It was just great to see someone actually DO THIS. I was a hooked Joss watcher.

There are others, but my threads gotten too long.

If I'm a bitch, then life just got interesting.

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VOSHEXETER

Wednesday, February 1, 2006 8:27 PM

My favorite shot:

The overhead view of River walking into the leaves, which is just before the incredible head/feet disconnected shot.

voshExeter

THECOLLECTOR

Thursday, February 2, 2006 12:18 AM

The one in the BDM right before they crash to earth... the part when you see Serenity solely flying to the alliance armada and then out of nowhere you see the reavers... I had to rewind it and put it in slow motion... just so I could say "Oh SHit" again...

CAPELLA

Thursday, February 2, 2006 12:34 AM

Also, did you notice that Joss seems to "quote" other movies in the BDM just with the shots he does?
There is one shot, close to the end, with Mal, Zoe and Wash on the bridge, that has "Millenium Falcon" written all over it. I don't think that is just by coincidence. Another shot later on reminded me very much of Aliens 2, but I have not checked yet if the camera angles are really the same. Maybe there are even more that I have not spotted yet.

Keep flying,
Capella

PHI

Thursday, February 2, 2006 12:44 AM

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Originally posted by jayneisagirlsname:
I love, love, love the shot on Haven in the BDM where River is framed by the burning swing ... the most beautiful shot in the film if you ask me.

I second that. The way River looks at it, as if she's trying to comprehend it. It's a stunning shot and so layered in symbolism. To me it just screams the end of innocence, of staying out of the Alliance's way.

RIVERGODDESS

Thursday, February 2, 2006 1:22 AM

I feel like such an English geek, because we talk about the same stuff with our books... but one of the many reasons that drew me to Firefly was the use of color/lighting/camera/wordless scenes/all matter of chacterizations/awesome dialogue/use of music (choice of composers)...*love* it. Joss is a gorram genius.
I love the first time we see Serenity in the BDM. I was immediately hooked, but when I rewatch it, I almost want to cry because it's so awesome. I'm also a fan of the River scenes in OiS. Fantastic framing. I think I'm gonna go rewatch some eps. I need to find more!

*~*~
Summer's response to Nathan getting his very own action figure:
"I tried to pull his head off."

RIVERGODDESS

Thursday, February 2, 2006 1:24 AM

sorry, double post!

*~*~
Summer's response to Nathan getting his very own action figure:
"I tried to pull his head off."

CAPTAINSHINY

Saturday, February 4, 2006 12:01 AM

2 shots from Whitefall in the pilot:
-Zoe, on her back, raising her gun and firing
-Patience's p.o.v.- mal walks up to her (she's trapped underneath her horse) and points his gun at her.

"The people who made the show, and the people who saw the show, which is roughly the same number of people, fell in love with it, a little bit too much to let it go, too much to lay down arms when when the battle looked pretty much lost. In Hollywood, people like that are called unrealistic, quixotic, obsessive... In my world, they're called Browncoats."
-Joss Whedon

WEREALLJUSTFLOATING

Saturday, February 4, 2006 6:13 PM

God, where to start. One of the things I've noticed that Joss loves to do is have a character aim a gun at the camera, or slightly off centre. The gun is right up in our face and the person holding it is in the background or barely visible. I'm thinking of Early aiming at Simon in Objects in Space, "It's not your moment Doctor". It's sooo cool.

Another similar shot is in the BDM, possible spoiler?

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when Mal walks in on River in the bridge as she's examining the map of Miranda. Without even turning her head, she points her gun right at him.

I love that one, the more I notice these types of shots the more I come to think of them as signature Firefly/Serenity shots.

Then there's the fantastic quickdraw at the end of the Maidenhead scene, as Mal and River face off one another, it's not quite the same as it's not a close up but it's just as impressive.

I just thought of another one -it's in Out of Gas, after Mal's been shot by the other crew, as they're about to start searching Serenity - he gets up off the floor with his tiny gun and turns the table on them "Jesse, don't call Stern...."

PS I think the burning swing shot in the BDM is my favourite of the movie. It's just so beautiful and haunting at the same time.

We're still flying.

That's not much.

It's enough.