This clip makes no bones about where it's influences are drawn from. The 8 minute, single shot, opening scene from the 1992 Robert Altman film The Player
Love how it's peppered with little comments and encounters that set up the entire plot - the pushy screenwriter who somehow got past security, the upcoming pressure on Griffin to perform in a time of "rolling heads", mistaken identity, interchangeability of personalities (replacing Julia Roberts with Goldie Hawn in the same breath), and finally the notion that in political thrillers someone always dies - and what else is a Hollywood studio but a huge political pinball machine? Brilliant.
Yeah it's great because it foreshadows that someone will die in this movie, comments on the fact that there's always a golden girl or man of the moment, (Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts) and it sets up their world and what they have power over. I also love that the producer chatting about Orson Welles says he's a master but when other directors are mentioned who were just as good he "hasn't seen it." The America centric view of Hollywood starts with the people at the centre who have no time to watch anything their friends aren't in.
@EclecticGlue Thank you for this. I love how Fred Ward keeps referencing Hitchcocks tracking shots. A truly great scene. I keep hearing about The Passenger shot but still have not seen the film. Other great long takes that immediately come to mind are the Goodfellas club scene and the Raging Bull fight entrance as well as the Boogie Nights club scene and the Magnolia studio entrance. Obviously, PT Anderson has seen a Scorsese movie or two...thanks again guy
they tell ya the reference point during the shot. check the dialogue at 1:30 into the clip "Cut, Cut Cut ...the opening shot of Welles's TOUCH OF EVIL was 6:30 long ..."
@morgantown1 That one in Magnolia is one of my favorites. Fucking Camera went from outside the studio through the halls to the green room through the halls again then gets into an elevator and then finally gets to Jimmy Gator´s office.. And thats not even the best one in the whole movie, the best one is when they Introduce the contestants for the game show! PT Anderson is the man..
I just now realized that the note at 3:41 that reads "YOUR DEAD" is, in fact, grammatically correct: it's not supposed to be "YOU'RE DEAD" as in a direct threat to Mill, but rather that the audience on the postcard is "his dead." The audience is being killed by bad movies.
It's amusing how the opening shot from Touch of Evil is referenced here... while it's less than half the length of this sequence, it's twice as good. My problem with Altman's eight-minute shot is that the camera stays in kind of a hub; it never leaves the parking lot. The camera doesn't follow the action, Altman makes the action come to the camera.
I like that though, it gives the impression of voyeurism. And I'm sure it was a budget constraint too. You can also see a cut, when the postcard is revealed.
We're going to talk about legendary one shots, while doing one. Nice. This is an excellent movie regardless, but really rewards movie buffs/historians/whatever.
enough about the camera movement and the opening shot...this is one of the best commentaries about Hollywood and American culture and Southern CA society ever. Witty, suspensful, and of course deeply deeply cynical. I say that I really don't like Altman.
Keep it on the DL. Watch very carefully when Jimmy falls off the bike and they tighten up on the postcard. It's not at all obvious, but it's definitely there.
This movie is subverting hollywood culture, it's commentary. You're not supposed to emulate the protagonist, and the movie does not paint him in a positive light. If you think the movie is teaching you to be like the main character, you've missed every bit of subtext contained in the film. I suggest you watch it again. And if that's the most 'negative' film you've ever seen, you've seen few films. Try Network, now that's dark. Dark, but deep commentary.
Do you have any clips with shots of the Pasadena police station? It was a historic old building that's since been torn down. I can find zero pics on the net.
anyone else find it ironic that Tim Robbins kills a man in this movie and gets away with the murder, then 2 years later he plays a man who is innocent of murder and gets imprisoned for it?
I think they should make a horror film set in a hollywood studio and the nasty film execs are killed in grusome and inhumane ways by disgruntled employees.
@@janlillielauritsen4791 6:08 clearly isn't Martin Scorsese. Also here's what Marty looked like in the 90s www.mentalfloss.com/article/60948/24-things-you-might-not-know-about-goodfellas
Sure, there were a lot of garbage movies made in the 80s and 90s that only had star power, but they were better than now, when superhero movies dominate.
@kingcaesar5 yeah. this is real porn. the movie teach us to be like main character: slippery, barefaced, evil. ok ull ask me "it is real live" ill ask u "i wanna watch movie to relax, to feel smth positive" this movie is absolute negative. its everywhere. this is the most negative movie ive ever seen.
'radical political scares me, political political scares me' sums up Hollywood and its attitude to 'message movies'. Just edgy enough to say 'this stuff happens' then backtracks to a safe spot.
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Love how it's peppered with little comments and encounters that set up the entire plot - the pushy screenwriter who somehow got past security, the upcoming pressure on Griffin to perform in a time of "rolling heads", mistaken identity, interchangeability of personalities (replacing Julia Roberts with Goldie Hawn in the same breath), and finally the notion that in political thrillers someone always dies - and what else is a Hollywood studio but a huge political pinball machine? Brilliant.
Yeah it's great because it foreshadows that someone will die in this movie, comments on the fact that there's always a golden girl or man of the moment, (Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts) and it sets up their world and what they have power over. I also love that the producer chatting about Orson Welles says he's a master but when other directors are mentioned who were just as good he "hasn't seen it." The America centric view of Hollywood starts with the people at the centre who have no time to watch anything their friends aren't in.
Still looking for that first piece of score that plays under the opening credits
One of the great opening shots in film history.
Way better than this new MTV cut cut cut stuff.
Love this movie. RIP Robert Altman
Buck Henry pitching The Graduate 2 ... classic!
I agree Anal Commando. A stroke/comedy.
I wouldn't be Surprised if they did The Graduate 2. Because hollywood are so stuck for films to make. They're making a Sequel to Top Gun.
"The New Graduate", lol
@@johndoyle2429sequel did a billion and a half hahahaha that was a win for the griffin mills and larry levy’s of the world
They showed this in one of my college classes. I was amazed.
How's life?
The best movement camera i have seen in my life on movie. Better than TOUCH EVIL openning.
Great movie. I love it. I saw it in the theater back when it was new. Thank you.
Me too. Century Theaters in LA, full theater. My buddy and I were laughing, saying out loud in a British accent 'Hollywood's abuzz over The Player!"
Fantastic movie -- So clever has it folds in on itself at the end.
So many of Altman's movies fold in and around - brilliant screenwriting
My favorite movie opening ever.
Brilliant in so many different ways!
reminds me of Profession: Reporter. i love such long shots...
@EclecticGlue Thank you for this. I love how Fred Ward keeps referencing Hitchcocks tracking shots. A truly great scene. I keep hearing about The Passenger shot but still have not seen the film. Other great long takes that immediately come to mind are the Goodfellas club scene and the Raging Bull fight entrance as well as the Boogie Nights club scene and the Magnolia studio entrance. Obviously, PT Anderson has seen a Scorsese movie or two...thanks again guy
Thx for this upload. I'm going to be quizzed on this in Film 200.
They need to make the graduate 2 like they described!
All the principals aren't with us anymore, sadly
They'd have to put Julia Roberts in the Katharine Ross part and make Zendaya the ingenue
That's Jeremy Piven (Ari Gold) that's talking around 4:10, lol.
OMG this eight minutes tell more about USA and modern society than anything else ...
“What the hell’s that? Never heard of it.” Hahahahahaa
Writer tries to order a beer then a red wine for a morning meeting with a studio head. Never noticed that before.
they already did the Graduate part 2. ITS CALLED "Rumour Has It..." . DAMN YOU ROB REINER!!
I would watch a movie with writers pitching: It's ghost meets manchurian candidate, out of africa meets pretty woman all day and name dropping stars
This is so intetesting, please add some more clips!!!
RIP Fred Ward
ALTMAN, THE MASTER!
Soo Dope!
A superb opening shot. I'd love to see the behind the scenes for this.
they tell ya the reference point during the shot. check the dialogue at 1:30 into the clip "Cut, Cut Cut ...the opening shot of Welles's TOUCH OF EVIL was 6:30 long ..."
Thx, Captain Obvious! 👍
Grr! It won't play! I love this shot. Amazing!
@morgantown1 That one in Magnolia is one of my favorites. Fucking Camera went from outside the studio through the halls to the green room through the halls again then gets into an elevator and then finally gets to Jimmy Gator´s office.. And thats not even the best one in the whole movie, the best one is when they Introduce the contestants for the game show! PT Anderson is the man..
Oh wow I just got that Richard Linklater's first film Slacker draws so heavily from this opening.
...with a heart, all in the same place!
I just now realized that the note at 3:41 that reads "YOUR DEAD" is, in fact, grammatically correct: it's not supposed to be "YOU'RE DEAD" as in a direct threat to Mill, but rather that the audience on the postcard is "his dead." The audience is being killed by bad movies.
It's amusing how the opening shot from Touch of Evil is referenced here... while it's less than half the length of this sequence, it's twice as good. My problem with Altman's eight-minute shot is that the camera stays in kind of a hub; it never leaves the parking lot. The camera doesn't follow the action, Altman makes the action come to the camera.
I like that though, it gives the impression of voyeurism. And I'm sure it was a budget constraint too. You can also see a cut, when the postcard is revealed.
I don’t see that as a problem at all
i like the opening of John Woo's "Hard Boiled" ... that is some choreography!
the TrUtH is at 3:02 "who let Adam Simon on the lot?" .... Go Adam, Go !!!
Modem64k Watch TV then, probably the best for all of us. Cinema cannot be reduced to entertainment and escapism. As an art form it seeks intensity.
@clivetemple
this is actually the 10th take of scene 1; like it says at the start.
We're going to talk about legendary one shots, while doing one. Nice.
This is an excellent movie regardless, but really rewards movie buffs/historians/whatever.
I love the music at 4:47
enough about the camera movement and the opening shot...this is one of the best commentaries about Hollywood and American culture and Southern CA society ever. Witty, suspensful, and of course deeply deeply cynical. I say that I really don't like Altman.
I really like him for the same reason 🙂
The cut is on the magazine scene
"take ten!"
Orson Welles ... "Touch of Evil' . hell, they tell ya during the shot.
Possible cut at 3:42
Keep it on the DL. Watch very carefully when Jimmy falls off the bike and they tighten up on the postcard. It's not at all obvious, but it's definitely there.
I didn't know Aron Speilling produced, because I thought it mostly T.V. Work he did. But I was wrong.
This movie is subverting hollywood culture, it's commentary. You're not supposed to emulate the protagonist, and the movie does not paint him in a positive light.
If you think the movie is teaching you to be like the main character, you've missed every bit of subtext contained in the film. I suggest you watch it again.
And if that's the most 'negative' film you've ever seen, you've seen few films. Try Network, now that's dark. Dark, but deep commentary.
The Film Vault sent me
So this is where Ari Gold first job was in Hollywood
Thought the same thing when I heard Piven lol
I think that was part of the idea of Swimming with Sharks (1994), although that's not a horror film exactly.
4:10 a young Ari Gold.
@laprop we must be in the same film 200 class at BRCC.... are we????
Charlie Day brought me here
Do you have any clips with shots of the Pasadena police station? It was a historic old building that's since been torn down. I can find zero pics on the net.
Isn't the camera movement inspired from "Citizen Kane" instead of "Touch of evil"? I've seen both movies but some time ago so I might be mistaken.
I saw the movie but I lost my patience after a few minutes. it is also hard to understand because there ar a few storylines in the beginning.
Of course what you fail to realize is this opening pokes fun at people who take those things seriously.
anyone else find it ironic that Tim Robbins kills a man in this movie and gets away with the murder, then 2 years later he plays a man who is innocent of murder and gets imprisoned for it?
Nick Tokar Have you ever seen War of the Worlds remake? Tim Robbins digs a hole in the wall in that one too LOL. He's a man of tongue in cheek
that's exactly what i thought when i watched this
The postman always ring twice
I said the camera movemment, no the full movie.
5:33 a pitch meeting? Hmmmmmmm.......maybe Ryan George should be there!
Russian Ark puts all those films mentioned below to shame.
And don't you think I Am Cuba deserves kudos, too?
i guess it could be either way
They predicted Bruce Willis in the sixth sense.
Planet with sons
Don't mean to spoil your fun, but it's two shots. I promise.
Angela Hall!!!!!!!!!!
@PleaseExcuseUs Small world! we actually are in the same class, I had to check your page to confirm it. I'll see you 2morrow for the quiz! haha.
Abulafia ... ah, so you don't pay attention.
@hawrnball you did see the end of this movie didn't you? i mean, that's the joke. right? get it?
I think they should make a horror film set in a hollywood studio and the nasty film execs are killed in grusome and inhumane ways by disgruntled employees.
6:10 that's not Scorsese lol
It is
He looked like that in the 90’s.
But he knows Harvey Keitel
@@janlillielauritsen4791 6:08 clearly isn't Martin Scorsese. Also here's what Marty looked like in the 90s www.mentalfloss.com/article/60948/24-things-you-might-not-know-about-goodfellas
I searched squid game and saw this
What's so great about the camera movement in that Passender scene anyway?
It's just an unbearably slow and boring tracking shot.
I haven't seen it, but there's a movie called Russian Ark that is one continuous 96 minute shot.
very impressive shot but i lost interest around 2 mins
Sure, there were a lot of garbage movies made in the 80s and 90s that only had star power, but they were better than now, when superhero movies dominate.
A slight jiggle of the camera is an obvious cut? Wow....good job failing.
@kingcaesar5 yeah. this is real porn. the movie teach us to be like main character: slippery, barefaced, evil. ok ull ask me "it is real live" ill ask u "i wanna watch movie to relax, to feel smth positive" this movie is absolute negative. its everywhere. this is the most negative movie ive ever seen.
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'radical political scares me, political political scares me' sums up Hollywood and its attitude to 'message movies'. Just edgy enough to say 'this stuff happens' then backtracks to a safe spot.
@guzmanbatista67 Nope. Touch of Evil was better.
Just wish the opening music had been different, it's way too 80s & this was '92!!
Altman, the most annoying director of the 70s.