Freeze frames in the 'sponge bathing' scene
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Originally posted by DonCoat:
IIRC a similar technique is used in the sex scene between Inara and the unnamed client early in the Serenity pilot.
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Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.
I don't remember a scene-freeze during the sex scene...*runs for DVDs*
Nope. It's the "lose focus/pull focus" gag, also used in Serenity when Jayne impugns Mal's war record. I reckon that's Joss' way of saying, "Look at the overwhelming physical and/or emotional sensations!"
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I love the 'lose focus/pull focus' shot. Adds movement and pace to the whole frame. It's one of the things that makes Firefly special. It looks like sloppy camera work but it works so well.
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Quote:Ah, thanks. My memory, it seems, just registered that there was something artsy-fartsy about that scene.
Originally posted by Causal:Quote:
Originally posted by DonCoat:
IIRC a similar technique is used in the sex scene between Inara and the unnamed client early in the Serenity pilot.
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Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.
I don't remember a scene-freeze during the sex scene...*runs for DVDs*
Nope. It's the "lose focus/pull focus" gag, also used in Serenity when Jayne impugns Mal's war record. I reckon that's Joss' way of saying, "Look at the overwhelming physical and/or emotional sensations!"
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I don't disagree on any particular point.
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Point of interest, Joss uses both the freeze frame and the out-of-focus trick. Way artsy-fartsy. 
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Remember that the out-of-focus trick also crops up in OiS, when River is moving through the ship and 'experiences' what Wash and Zoe are feeling. 
It's a very specific visual device, used to create a certain mood, and Joss says as much in the ep commentary. The 'time-stops' in Serenity and HoG are no different.
"The hell with this - I'm gonna live!"
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Hey c'mon CHEE-ildren...
There's nothing about Joss that isn't ...ahem... whazzit-everyone's-sayin'(??)... ummm... "Fartsy-Artsy(???)"...
How about during OiS(?)... River and the branch/gun(?)... can anything be artsy-fartsier than that? Inara-in-the-bath(??)... I mean, it also interests me that this was the first scene she shot in the series, right? She came in from Julliard for her first professional audition on a Friday - blew 'em away so harshly that they said, "You start work on Monday," - I mean... that's what I'D-a told her, eh?... and then, for her first post-school professional scene, they take her clothes off, give her a sponge & tell her to... ummm... ...hell, I dunno what they told her, d'you?? ...all I know is... that camera went to occasional freeze-frames and, y'know(??)... it sure fit her charming, ummm... what-is-that(??) ...personality(??)
One thing for sure is: nothing has entertained me more than every second of Firefly/Serenity
boy... there better be some serious bootie in the BDS or "all their friends will think they're stupid, inbred pieces of meat."
hehhehheh 
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hmmmph...
shoulda put quotations around that "c'mon CHEE-ildren" thingee... I was channeling (...trying to...) Isaac Hayes from 'South Park'...
once again I have succeeded at being a "stupid, inbred piece of meat."
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I thought I heard in some commentary that the stops in Serenity and Heart of Gold sort of symbolized orgasms.
No power in the 'verse can stop me!
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Ryce that's exactly what Joss says on the commentary for ep. 1 during those scenes...who knows if it was tongue and cheek...
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