New Directing Shots

[Rightfielder21]

What did everyone feel about the different directing shots? The two that stuck out were the "slow motion laughing" and the quick Carmela-AJ flashback at the end...

I thought they were much better than the "rewind" in season 3, that was my least favorite 30 seconds ever of the Sopranos...

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[JDPeck]

Rodrigo Garcia directed this episode, he's done some great Carnivale and Six Feet Under episodes, so I knew we were in for something different.

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[bushleaguer1]

I thought it was interesting, although I enjoy it more when they don't make things so obvious (the slo-motion laugh scene).

That wasn't the first time they did a quick flashback. Remember in the last episode of last season when Meadow has a flash back of complaining about no food being in the house.

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[FlyOnMelfisWall]

Yeah, I did not like the "rewind" thing, the only black mark on "Proshai, Livushka", one of my all-time favorite eps.

Tonight's "subjective" shots were tasteful if a bit predictable (the Tony slo-mo one). Still, there's nothing wrong with using tried and true visual vocabulary to get something across.

The AJ one was less expected and very touching.

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[ZitiQueen]

Not to knit pick, but do you think they were living in that house when AJ was a little kid on a Big Wheel in the drive way?

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[Luban]

Having just recently seen "The Passion," I found Carmela's AJ flashback to be strikingly similar to the scene in "The Passion" where Mary flashes back to Jesus falling as a child (one of the few bearable scenes in that movie!).


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[4nthony]

yea i think so

if it were meadow, maybe that would have been inaccurate

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[West Re animator]

I too just wanted to throw my lot in with the people who hated the rewind thing. It's too jarring and takes you right out of the universe. That being said, this new director is great.

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[aalleyne]

What?!? You people didn't like the rewind thing? I thought it was a GREAT piece of work! The way it started with Tony on the ground, next to a shattered glass with blood on the floor, grabbed the audience's attention WAY more than simply starting the episode normally, with the scene with Meadow and Noah, would have.

It created a sense of suspense: what made Tony pass out this time? And then we found out: Meadow brought a black guy into the house, scandalous from the point of view of anyone who rolls in Tony's ethnocentric, xenophobic circles.

And I didn't find anything "jarring" about it. It was a great piece of artistic flair.

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[Wes]

I don't see how you couldn't like that. I thought it was an excellent example of film-making. Definitely one of my favorite shots on the show.

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[Whackjob]

It's a nice filming method and it's obvious that the director wants to hit the viewer over the head that Carm is experiencing the 'empty nest syndrome'.

I predict that Carm will cure her 'loneliness' by sleeping with the school conselor (and/or someone else), get caught by Tony, and then the soap opera drama can continue. He will call her nasty names, she'll say something like: "what's good for the goose is good for the gander", Tony will punch a hole in the wall, and break stuff.

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[FlyOnMelfisWall]

Just overtly "gimmicky" in my book. Perhaps the first time you watch it, the weird, surprise factor supports it. But on viewings 2 through infinity, it's just an annoying waste of time.

IMO, the suspense could have just as well been achieved through a straight flashback, rather than a fast rewind then a forward play of the flashback.

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[brendantait]

The rewind was good! I like it anyways...as for the slow-motion laughing one, right away I saw that the only one that wasn't laughing was Feech...before the 2nd time they showed it

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[Rightfielder21]

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>Just overtly "gimmicky" in my book. Perhaps the first time you watch it, the weird, surprise factor supports it. But on viewings 2 through infinity, it's just an annoying waste of time.<hr></blockquote>

Agreed.....

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