That would be some awkward framing and composition... if you could even call it that. At least you'd have more than enough b-roll. Especially on the dutch angle.
Follow me at my new twitter handle @jacknugent27. I tweet about movie things I’m sure you’ll love it. ALSO. The "Dutch" in Dutch Angle comes from a mispronunciation of the word "Deutsch." It came from the Germans!
@@jackgrattan1447 They used to call the Germans the Dutch from around the Civil war to WW1. I'm not sure when they stopped tbh but I've seen footage of a old Civil War Vet talking about killing some Germans fighting for the Yanks and called them the Dutch.
@@Wallyworld30 Even before the Civil War. When Germans started settling in Pennsylvania, they were asked where they came from. They replied "Deutschland", and the Pennsylvania Dutch were born.
As far as I know they indeed called our language Dutch, because it meant people or nation in old English, Europe back then was this just this whole mishmash of languages until it evolved over the years with the borders and the like. So after a while 'low' Dutch was what was spoken in the Netherlands, while the Dutch that evolved in Germany became Deutsch AKA German. Still there is a sarcastic/funny conversation that German is drunk Dutch or the other way around.
One of my fav uses was in the restaurant scene in the first Mission Impossible. Once Ethan realizes there was some sort of a setup the dutch angle kicks in.
YES! Mission Impossible is such a great a movie, I hate when people treat it like just a generic spy-action movie because it is amazing all around. The acting, the cinematography, the storytelling... Oh god, I love that movie.
Forgive me for nerding out for a minute, but while “The Nightmare Before Christmas” was written (barely, at that) by Tim Burton, it was actually directed by Henry Selick (who later went on to direct “James and the Giant Peach” and “Coraline”). The guy doesn’t get enough credit.
Henry Selick deserves a lot of credit, but Burton absolutely had a huge influence on the project. He created the concept art and storyboards, and collaborated on sculpting the characters.
i always learned that the dutch tilt was invented in photography to catch the full church tower without having to move the camera further back or using more film
Great video! Too bad abominations like Battlefield Earth gave the dutch angle a bad name, like you showed it can be an effective tool when used correctly.
The TV show Gotham uses the angle PERFECTLY Every opening shot in Arkham Asylum, and the forensics lab uses it, along with when certain characters that are a bit on the crazy side enter a scene and more... It adds so much to the overall show.
It's okay to use it a lot, provided that actual angles aren't too extreme. You don't want the audience to feel they have to tilt their head from side to side all the time. The Gotham TV style is certainly influenced at least in part by Batman 66. But Batman was influenced in turn by film noir crime movies.
The over use of Dutch Angle I can somewhat bear but when TV-series and some movies do the entire thing with Jitter Cam and zoom in and out _all_ the time... 100 lashes to the directors of those abominations.
Watched the Cabinet of Caligari in a film class recently and one of the analysis questions was how it influences modern films and I did make a mention of the slanted set's similarity to the dutch angle. Glad to now see this and have some assurance that I had the right idea
I kinda enjoy Thor's dutch angles, it gives me that Shakespearian feel, I just think they use it too much in unnecessary moments. I'd use a lot of it in Asgard and on Earth only on scenes with Mjolnir directly involved, therefore the dutch angle would be connected to the magic of the film, which is a cool idea, at least to me. Great video, I admire dutch angles but rarely see them use very well or in a way I enjoy. I loved the use of it on the newest IT movie.
There are very few youtube channels that i treat every video release as a mini-holiday. Your videos are awesome, i wait for them like i wait for a content cop!
I clicked on the video hoping you'd mention Thor. I watched it again recently and there are so many!!! And less than two minutes in, you did!! Great video.
I really like the dutch angle's use in Scott Hick's *"Snow Falling On Cedars"* , Adrian Lyne's *"Lolita"* , as well as in Oliver Stone's *"JFK"* , *"The Doors"* , *"Nixon"* , *"Natural Born Killers"* , and *"U-Turn"* (basically after Robert Krasker, Robert Richardson shoots it best I guess) .
Unless you visit Vienna, that is. Then you're "reminded" of ot at every street corner. "Check out the museum", "do a tour through the sewers", "check out this house and this spot and this tree a dog urinated on in the movie"
This angle has been used in Spider-man into the spider-verse as well. That was first when I noticed it. The emotional peak of the story and Miles' leap of faith are perfectly captured in that shot. It feels uncertain, emotional, powerful and beautiful.
I think it is possible to use "dutch angles" in the books. Not many writers dare to do so though. Yes, there are some "alternative" books that do so a lot, but there is a lot you can do with text and typesetting. Sudden use of a different font, a sudden intentional empty page, different color of the text, a double page containing only one sentence or word, actuall missing chapter (with torn pages inside the book)... or just actually text printed in a different angle. There are ways to do this. And if done right and with proper context, it can be very impactful.
Seen a few videos from you and I'm really impressed. I didn't even know I was into cinematography but because of your videos, now I'm hooked on this shit. Incredible. 🔥
Roger Christian, the director of Battlefield Earth, also said he used Dutch angles to make his movie more comic book-like. What is it with British directors thinking tilted camera angles = comic books?
Well, I'm not an expert on the history of comic book art, but of course Batman 66 was famous for its use of Dutch tilt. From the late 60s, Batman comics became darker, and you can see a lot of angles in those panel compositions from the early 70s, e.g. The Joker's Five-Way Revenge, Challenge of the Man-Bat, The Secret of the Waiting Graves, and The Man with Ten Eyes.
I really enjoy your analysis of film and film making. I would love it if you could pace your narration a bit more, giving more pauses between sentences and thoughts. You've got time here and important things to say. I always feel like you're rushing.
This is wonderful. It feels like CineFix, which is high praise. Perhaps you could also do a video on the circular dolly tracking shot made popular by The Matrix.
There was a part in AHS that started off straight but that tilted into a dutch angle and then cut to the other person and it did the same thing but in the opposite direction and I remember rewatching that part a few times because of how cool it looked
0:15 he calls it what? That aside, you've got some interesting videos here. I've only seen a few so far, but I've already seen a few other titles that look pretty interesting. Nice work!
What about the camera tilting in stranger things when the boss man fires Nancy and Jonathan. I like how the camera tilts when the boss gets mad and pushes something and it makes the camera tilt and it stays tilted the rest of the scene.
one of my favorite use of dutch angle is in season 3 of stranger things, when nancy and jonathan were getting interrogated by their boss at the local paper. he slams his chair into the desk and you see the camera tilt into the dutch angle. that shit was GRIPPING
The dutch tilt(s) i like most are in The Walking Dead, in the final hospital standoff scene. No spoilers. But anyone who's seen it knows the tension of the scene (up to its release...) and I instantly realized that when the dutch tilts started. Great scene, great use of dutch tilts. Greetings from Germany.
cool video, truly interesting and well made. I like the writing generally, but I can't help but think that at times this falls into the pretensions trap a lot video essays do. Like saying "the dutch angle contributes to the distortion on screen, giving cinema a way of adding uncertainty that no other art form can do." Is this saying no other art form can tilt a camera? Is it saying no other art form can add uncertainty as well? Aren't each of those either incorrect or at best merely an opinion? When I catch things like that, juxtaposed against the very matter of fact narrating and writing style, it's feels like the rug is pulled out from under me.
I mean- there ARE things that only film can do. Just like there are things that only watercolor or photography or ballet or opera can do. He's not saying that no other art form can add uncertainty- hes saying that the Dutch angle allows a type of uncertainty only expressible in cinema form. I've always thought it sounded a little pretentious when artists or analysts said stuff like that- until I realized that it's true(to some extent). The means of expressing a certain feeling are often different for different art forms. :)
@@elderly_gentleman9489 He perhaps could have phrased it slightly differently, but I agree. Although I would argue that any art form which includes a 'camera', whether real or virtual, can create uncertainty through Dutch angles (whether they are called that or not). This includes cinema, obviously, but it also includes drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and all static visual media, along with games and, through tilted sets, theatre (which is exactly what The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari used!). Also, children's book design often incorporates typesetting which uses deformation and angles of text to convey meaning or emotion, including disorientation.
Always noticed the tilt in Die Hard and kind of instictively knew what the point of it was. But I had no idea it was an actual named technique. Cool info! Thanks!
The dutch angle is underrated. I sing Chalga, a Eastern music style and the music videos especially the retro songs use it all the time with glowy half-sepia lighting.
Now You See It: the director uses the dutch shot trying to add depth and uncertainty to the scene while capturing the true emotion of the environment Director: i use the dutch shot cause it looks cool
I noticed it was done well in stranger things recently. They used it sparingly and only in scenes where they're intentionally telling you "someone's crooked"
Notible use: The Grinch that Stole Christmas! (Jim Carrey) In that film, it adds goofiness and perhaps the head-tilt of a curious observer, perfectly fitting the story. It also gives a sense of continuity I think.
I was all set to comment that you should have mentioned The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari - but then you mentioned it! What's interesting is that, for Caligari, they Dutched the sets, not the camera.
There are some great dutch angles in Serial Experiments Lain, owing to its intense use of subjective shot compositions as a persistent stylistic choice, but the one I remember most is where the "virtual" camera in episode 2 starts tilting back to normality FROM a dutch angle after Lain says the "Everyone is connected" phrase. 99% of directors (movie or anime, doesn't matter) would do the opposite and tilt it more, since it's the biggest tension moment in the scene, and it wouldn't have one tenth of the impact. When I saw that scene for the first time, that shot where it tilts back screamed one thing to me: _Reality sets in._ Poor guy never stood a chance...
I love your vids. In this one you skipped a part of the origin however. The Dutch Angle originated in photography. Foreign photographers where often hired by the rich people of Amsterdam to take a picture of their latge house. However, some of these houses where partly build on water and became croocked. The photographers needed to tilt their camera in order to photograph the house straight. The straight house gave the owner more status. The photographers started calling the tilting of the camera a Dutch Angle, because it was associated with the typical houses in Amsterdam. Some of these photographers later worked on French and Dutch Cinema where they tried to utilize the technique for film.
Steven van Roosmalen would you happen to have references on that? I've been curious about the origin of the name. Nerdwriter has been claiming in the comments here that the use of the angle in film originated in German cinema and was dubbed "The Dutch Angle" due to a mispronunciation of "Deutsche". Others have mentioned the problem of "Dutch" used as a pejorative and the assosication with the name ringing true due to the way the angle typically aims to unsettle the audience. Your explanation on the origin of the term seems reasonable and a little more generous.
Haze01Smash I don’t have a source at hand. I am Dutch and I have studied film on thee educational levels in the Netherlands. I remember that my teacher told me this in my first year during my first study. It may even been references in the handbook “Film maken” by Roemer Lievaard. This was the book we used during that class.
Nesu Noart First, I won’t claim that this is the 100% truth. Second, I didn’t claim the term was introduced in Dutch Cinema. Third, there is some truth in the matter. The large manors (Herenhuizen) in Amsterdam are still croocked or have croocked streets. In order to capture them hole on a photo, people need to tilt their camera. Photographers use this technique today. The last thing I want to point out is that patriotism is very much frowned upon by most people in our country. The only thing we are proud of is the fact that we are very progressive. If my teacher thaught me this, it is probably because of Oral History. That means there can be some merrit of truth to these statements, but it doesn’t have to be. I should check the book I mentioned when I have the time.
This sounds like a myth. Most photographers of Dutch houses would be Dutch; they wouldn't talk about "Dutch" angles. And it's a big leap from a trick to make a house look upright to tilting the camera as a dramatic device. If it was used in French and Dutch films before German ones, I want specifics.
Why tilt the camera, when you can tilt the whole set?
Why tilt either of them when you can just tilt your head??
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This is the next Christopher Nolan movie
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(Vsauce theme)
I didn't used to notice how important this angle was in every movie it was used in.......but NOW I SEE IT.
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Just imagine your camera is strapped to a dog's head. If it's confused or disoriented... TILT.
cute 🐶
That would be some awkward framing and composition... if you could even call it that.
At least you'd have more than enough b-roll. Especially on the dutch angle.
That's an awesome way to explain the angle.
Too bad Yasujiro Ozu didn't think of this. It would instantly turn _Tokyo Story_ into a _film noir._ ;)
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i use dutch angles when im listening to my teacher in Calculus
I feel the same way buddy.
This is a great joke on two sturdy levels
Follow me at my new twitter handle @jacknugent27. I tweet about movie things I’m sure you’ll love it.
ALSO. The "Dutch" in Dutch Angle comes from a mispronunciation of the word "Deutsch." It came from the Germans!
Now You See It Anakin: are you an angle?
RIP swagthug
The same mispronunciation happened to the pennsylvania dutch. Gosh dang americans!
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As a german I was almost gonna give it to the dutch for being so creative.
Turns out my neighbors are still dumb. We rule, as always.
Someone's clearly never lost a bicycle before. It cuts deep.
I have "lost" 4 bikes in 2 years (and yes, I used 2 locks). After a while you just register it and go on with life.
@@aknopf8173 how could you lost 4 bikes in 2 years ? Where do you live ?
@@azerty97212 where do u live man, when u cant wrap your head around your bike getting stolen ?
Soviet + German = Dutch
got it.
I read somewhere that it was originally "Deutsche (German) angle" and devolved into "Dutch angle".
@@jackgrattan1447 They used to call the Germans the Dutch from around the Civil war to WW1. I'm not sure when they stopped tbh but I've seen footage of a old Civil War Vet talking about killing some Germans fighting for the Yanks and called them the Dutch.
@@Wallyworld30 Even before the Civil War. When Germans started settling in Pennsylvania, they were asked where they came from. They replied "Deutschland", and the Pennsylvania Dutch were born.
As far as I know they indeed called our language Dutch, because it meant people or nation in old English, Europe back then was this just this whole mishmash of languages until it evolved over the years with the borders and the like. So after a while 'low' Dutch was what was spoken in the Netherlands, while the Dutch that evolved in Germany became Deutsch AKA German. Still there is a sarcastic/funny conversation that German is drunk Dutch or the other way around.
@@madamm2766 No, German is overserious dutch
No spoiler alert for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari smh
And such an unnecessary spoiler lol
this movie's like 100 years old you can't really spoil it at this point
@@maksymilianreiter3111 yes you can. Even many film critics have yet to see it.
It's a subject of open debate, often discussed and given as example. I think you can talk about it freely and it's not spoiling.
I’ve been waiting 99 years to see that too unbelievable no spoiler warning! When it first came out I couldn’t afford the tickets.
One of my fav uses was in the restaurant scene in the first Mission Impossible. Once Ethan realizes there was some sort of a setup the dutch angle kicks in.
YES! Mission Impossible is such a great a movie, I hate when people treat it like just a generic spy-action movie because it is amazing all around. The acting, the cinematography, the storytelling... Oh god, I love that movie.
Raina Emms n,
Forgive me for nerding out for a minute, but while “The Nightmare Before Christmas” was written (barely, at that) by Tim Burton, it was actually directed by Henry Selick (who later went on to direct “James and the Giant Peach” and “Coraline”). The guy doesn’t get enough credit.
Henry Selick deserves a lot of credit, but Burton absolutely had a huge influence on the project. He created the concept art and storyboards, and collaborated on sculpting the characters.
Thankfully Coralie is an animation, if it were live played, it would be too scary for me to watch.
@@Tondadrd Animated films require a lot of directing...more than live action, actually.
YES! I missed your videos in my life
I didn't remember that "The Third Man" even had any dutch angles; it just had good angles.
Hah! "No Dutch angles, only good angles!"
The Third Angle
i always learned that the dutch tilt was invented in photography to catch the full church tower without having to move the camera further back or using more film
My gosh it feels so amazing to see a notification from now you see it ❤️
Man I LOVED how the video started immediately, I see the video, click and boom first second in it kicks off.
Great video! Too bad abominations like Battlefield Earth gave the dutch angle a bad name, like you showed it can be an effective tool when used correctly.
90's TV completely desensitized people in this case
Triple M but it didn’t killed it
metfan4l I actually have your HardWired video open in a different tab
The TV show Gotham uses the angle PERFECTLY
Every opening shot in Arkham Asylum, and the forensics lab uses it, along with when certain characters that are a bit on the crazy side enter a scene and more...
It adds so much to the overall show.
It's okay to use it a lot, provided that actual angles aren't too extreme. You don't want the audience to feel they have to tilt their head from side to side all the time.
The Gotham TV style is certainly influenced at least in part by Batman 66.
But Batman was influenced in turn by film noir crime movies.
holy shit, i just googled this the other day and none of the explanations satisfied me. thanks for posting this!
I've never even registered Dutch Angles. At this point, I should just change my username to "Film-watching plebian"
The over use of Dutch Angle I can somewhat bear but when TV-series and some movies do the entire thing with Jitter Cam and zoom in and out _all_ the time... 100 lashes to the directors of those abominations.
I think we need more unnecessary edits and shots just to see how far we can go
@@carlosandleon I'm worried about your assumption that we will turn back if we go too far.
Watched the Cabinet of Caligari in a film class recently and one of the analysis questions was how it influences modern films and I did make a mention of the slanted set's similarity to the dutch angle. Glad to now see this and have some assurance that I had the right idea
Ohhhh, now I see it
One of my favourite channels!!! It's literally the only channel I have post notifications on for
Who needs to study when you have Now You See it videos ?
It’s not a title so much as an immediate directive.
I kinda enjoy Thor's dutch angles, it gives me that Shakespearian feel, I just think they use it too much in unnecessary moments. I'd use a lot of it in Asgard and on Earth only on scenes with Mjolnir directly involved, therefore the dutch angle would be connected to the magic of the film, which is a cool idea, at least to me.
Great video, I admire dutch angles but rarely see them use very well or in a way I enjoy. I loved the use of it on the newest IT movie.
"This movie you've probably never heard of was full of amazing innovations, including its twist ending!"
**tells us the twist** :|
Its 100 years old...spoiler alerts no longer apply
There are very few youtube channels that i treat every video release as a mini-holiday. Your videos are awesome, i wait for them like i wait for a content cop!
Thanks so much for the free skillshare! I wanted to learn about stuff like this for a long time!
I truly missed your works. I love this channel for its quantum minuteness in the observations entailing each and every video. Stay strong 💪
I clicked on the video hoping you'd mention Thor. I watched it again recently and there are so many!!! And less than two minutes in, you did!! Great video.
I really like the dutch angle's use in Scott Hick's *"Snow Falling On Cedars"* , Adrian Lyne's *"Lolita"* , as well as in Oliver Stone's *"JFK"* , *"The Doors"* , *"Nixon"* , *"Natural Born Killers"* , and *"U-Turn"* (basically after Robert Krasker, Robert Richardson shoots it best I guess) .
You AND Nerdwriter today? Nice
Dutch angles arent bad but if every shot is tilted I feel like puking
Stay far away from Jim Carrey’s the grinch then
I saw this angle recently in an episode of the third season of Stranger Things. It worked so good I freaking loved it.
Lmao wasnt expecting a recent comment
Do the Right Thing has really good examples of this.
The Third Man is one of those movies that the recent generations have forgotten, but I fall in love with it everytime.
Unless you visit Vienna, that is. Then you're "reminded" of ot at every street corner. "Check out the museum", "do a tour through the sewers", "check out this house and this spot and this tree a dog urinated on in the movie"
Fantastic little history lesson! Thanks for the skillshare too!
I like the way they use it in Stranger Things 3. To show that something isn't right with Tom when he fires Nancy and Jonathan.
Awesome video!!! and thanks for the Skillshare recommendation.
This angle has been used in Spider-man into the spider-verse as well. That was first when I noticed it. The emotional peak of the story and Miles' leap of faith are perfectly captured in that shot. It feels uncertain, emotional, powerful and beautiful.
Man with a Movie Camera is one of my favorite films! I did a video essay myself about it because it seems like a direct precursor to the vlog.
phenomenal film!
I think it is possible to use "dutch angles" in the books. Not many writers dare to do so though.
Yes, there are some "alternative" books that do so a lot, but there is a lot you can do with text and typesetting.
Sudden use of a different font, a sudden intentional empty page, different color of the text, a double page containing only one sentence or word, actuall missing chapter (with torn pages inside the book)... or just actually text printed in a different angle. There are ways to do this. And if done right and with proper context, it can be very impactful.
Can you tell me some books. I remember hearing of one but I cannot remember its name and it’s not well known so I can’t really find it now
@@abandonedmuse House of Leaves might be the usual example.
@@Marcu3s that’s the one! Thank you!!!!
Aw dude thanks so much for doing this one, that's a nice surprise! :)
I love these videos, im glad you make 'em
I’m very glad that so many people get to know Dziga Vertov
Seen a few videos from you and I'm really impressed. I didn't even know I was into cinematography but because of your videos, now I'm hooked on this shit. Incredible. 🔥
What about the origins of the Dutch Oven?
What are you trying to say?
Or for that matter, Dutch doors...
@@muffdiver240 I Dont get, Nazi Jokes ????????
Roger Christian, the director of Battlefield Earth, also said he used Dutch angles to make his movie more comic book-like. What is it with British directors thinking tilted camera angles = comic books?
What does "British" have to do with it?
Both Christian and Branagh are British.
Well, I'm not an expert on the history of comic book art, but of course Batman 66 was famous for its use of Dutch tilt. From the late 60s, Batman comics became darker, and you can see a lot of angles in those panel compositions from the early 70s, e.g. The Joker's Five-Way Revenge, Challenge of the Man-Bat, The Secret of the Waiting Graves, and The Man with Ten Eyes.
The first time I ever noticed the Dutch Angle was in Carlito's way, I really liked the way it was used.
I really enjoy your analysis of film and film making. I would love it if you could pace your narration a bit more, giving more pauses between sentences and thoughts. You've got time here and important things to say. I always feel like you're rushing.
This is wonderful. It feels like CineFix, which is high praise. Perhaps you could also do a video on the circular dolly tracking shot made popular by The Matrix.
There was a part in AHS that started off straight but that tilted into a dutch angle and then cut to the other person and it did the same thing but in the opposite direction and I remember rewatching that part a few times because of how cool it looked
0:15 he calls it what?
That aside, you've got some interesting videos here. I've only seen a few so far, but I've already seen a few other titles that look pretty interesting. Nice work!
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This video pretty much covered my whole first year at university
Is that the instrumental of "Hypnotized" by Plies in the background?
Good commentary. Although your background music is very distracting. The dutch angle isn't as distracting as the music.
VFX Todd I disagree but ok
Gilliams"s "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is another example of a great movie with a lot of dutch angles.
I just mentioned “Man with a Movie Camera” to one of my students. Nice to find this here!
Die Hard and The Third Man are two of my favorite films. One more reason to like both of them.
I love the use of Dutch Angles in Do The Right Thing
Way to go!!! You told us EVERYTHING about Dutch Angles except the one thing we wanted to know. WHY is tilting the camera called a "Dutch Angle".
Thanks for these videos bud.
The Will Smith song at the end of your videos is always the icing on the cake!
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What about the camera tilting in stranger things when the boss man fires Nancy and Jonathan. I like how the camera tilts when the boss gets mad and pushes something and it makes the camera tilt and it stays tilted the rest of the scene.
I didn't even notice that till I read your comment, lol.
I'm so glad you mentioned Thor. I noticed the entire movie was crooked and I didn't know why.
This was really helpful, I’m making a short crime film and I’ve used this so much
Very informative. Cheers.
one of my favorite use of dutch angle is in season 3 of stranger things, when nancy and jonathan were getting interrogated by their boss at the local paper. he slams his chair into the desk and you see the camera tilt into the dutch angle. that shit was GRIPPING
The dutch tilt(s) i like most are in The Walking Dead, in the final hospital standoff scene. No spoilers. But anyone who's seen it knows the tension of the scene (up to its release...) and I instantly realized that when the dutch tilts started. Great scene, great use of dutch tilts.
Greetings from Germany.
I like your channel. Keep up the good work sir.
cool video, truly interesting and well made. I like the writing generally, but I can't help but think that at times this falls into the pretensions trap a lot video essays do. Like saying "the dutch angle contributes to the distortion on screen, giving cinema a way of adding uncertainty that no other art form can do." Is this saying no other art form can tilt a camera? Is it saying no other art form can add uncertainty as well? Aren't each of those either incorrect or at best merely an opinion? When I catch things like that, juxtaposed against the very matter of fact narrating and writing style, it's feels like the rug is pulled out from under me.
I mean- there ARE things that only film can do. Just like there are things that only watercolor or photography or ballet or opera can do. He's not saying that no other art form can add uncertainty- hes saying that the Dutch angle allows a type of uncertainty only expressible in cinema form. I've always thought it sounded a little pretentious when artists or analysts said stuff like that- until I realized that it's true(to some extent). The means of expressing a certain feeling are often different for different art forms. :)
@@elderly_gentleman9489 He perhaps could have phrased it slightly differently, but I agree. Although I would argue that any art form which includes a 'camera', whether real or virtual, can create uncertainty through Dutch angles (whether they are called that or not). This includes cinema, obviously, but it also includes drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and all static visual media, along with games and, through tilted sets, theatre (which is exactly what The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari used!). Also, children's book design often incorporates typesetting which uses deformation and angles of text to convey meaning or emotion, including disorientation.
I see what you did there with the outro music. The music video for Summertime had plenty of Dutch angles.
Always noticed the tilt in Die Hard and kind of instictively knew what the point of it was.
But I had no idea it was an actual named technique. Cool info! Thanks!
No spoiler alert for Caligari? Thanks man
The dutch angle is underrated. I sing Chalga, a Eastern music style and the music videos especially the retro songs use it all the time with glowy half-sepia lighting.
I've been waiting for 2 months for a Now You See It upload
Now You See It: the director uses the dutch shot trying to add depth and uncertainty to the scene while capturing the true emotion of the environment
Director: i use the dutch shot cause it looks cool
i keep bumping my head to the background music
imo that scene of loki declaring himself king of asgard is 100% better with the dutch angle
I noticed it was done well in stranger things recently. They used it sparingly and only in scenes where they're intentionally telling you "someone's crooked"
I knew that Rob Zombie's "Living Dead Girl" was referencing an old movie, but thank you for show casing it. I'm going to have to watch that now.
Was waiting for The Third Man from the moment you started this video.
Im getting seasick with all that tilteage
Notible use: The Grinch that Stole Christmas! (Jim Carrey) In that film, it adds goofiness and perhaps the head-tilt of a curious observer, perfectly fitting the story. It also gives a sense of continuity I think.
I found myself tilting my phone to compensate for the tilt in the scenes. Maybe I've always done it subconsciously. This is really interesting :)
I remember I did a Dutch angle one time. Then I went back and tightened the tripod mount.
One of my favorite uses of the Dutch angle is in the movie "The Conformist" by Bernardo Bertolucci
They're in only every film noir ever made.
I am holding my cellphone in a Dutch angle while watching this
I was all set to comment that you should have mentioned The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari - but then you mentioned it!
What's interesting is that, for Caligari, they Dutched the sets, not the camera.
There are some great dutch angles in Serial Experiments Lain, owing to its intense use of subjective shot compositions as a persistent stylistic choice, but the one I remember most is where the "virtual" camera in episode 2 starts tilting back to normality FROM a dutch angle after Lain says the "Everyone is connected" phrase. 99% of directors (movie or anime, doesn't matter) would do the opposite and tilt it more, since it's the biggest tension moment in the scene, and it wouldn't have one tenth of the impact. When I saw that scene for the first time, that shot where it tilts back screamed one thing to me:
_Reality sets in._
Poor guy never stood a chance...
I have even seen the Dutch Angle used in news, where the "hostile" source was filmed with a wary subtle Dutch Angle.
So this is why our heads tilt when someone does a Dutch Oven!
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Name of film @ 5:53? 🤔
Just imagine if those old films with their dead camera angles and title card plots were praised for being "literary"
A video about tilted cameras and not a single mention to Evil Dead? Shame on you!
Jokes aside, great video!
Thank you! Feel like I've learnt something again! :)
I love your vids.
In this one you skipped a part of the origin however. The Dutch Angle originated in photography. Foreign photographers where often hired by the rich people of Amsterdam to take a picture of their latge house. However, some of these houses where partly build on water and became croocked. The photographers needed to tilt their camera in order to photograph the house straight.
The straight house gave the owner more status. The photographers started calling the tilting of the camera a Dutch Angle, because it was associated with the typical houses in Amsterdam.
Some of these photographers later worked on French and Dutch Cinema where they tried to utilize the technique for film.
Steven van Roosmalen would you happen to have references on that? I've been curious about the origin of the name. Nerdwriter has been claiming in the comments here that the use of the angle in film originated in German cinema and was dubbed "The Dutch Angle" due to a mispronunciation of "Deutsche". Others have mentioned the problem of "Dutch" used as a pejorative and the assosication with the name ringing true due to the way the angle typically aims to unsettle the audience. Your explanation on the origin of the term seems reasonable and a little more generous.
Haze01Smash I don’t have a source at hand. I am Dutch and I have studied film on thee educational levels in the Netherlands. I remember that my teacher told me this in my first year during my first study. It may even been references in the handbook “Film maken” by Roemer Lievaard. This was the book we used during that class.
Nesu Noart First, I won’t claim that this is the 100% truth. Second, I didn’t claim the term was introduced in Dutch Cinema. Third, there is some truth in the matter. The large manors (Herenhuizen) in Amsterdam are still croocked or have croocked streets. In order to capture them hole on a photo, people need to tilt their camera. Photographers use this technique today.
The last thing I want to point out is that patriotism is very much frowned upon by most people in our country. The only thing we are proud of is the fact that we are very progressive. If my teacher thaught me this, it is probably because of Oral History. That means there can be some merrit of truth to these statements, but it doesn’t have to be.
I should check the book I mentioned when I have the time.
This sounds like a myth. Most photographers of Dutch houses would be Dutch; they wouldn't talk about "Dutch" angles. And it's a big leap from a trick to make a house look upright to tilting the camera as a dramatic device.
If it was used in French and Dutch films before German ones, I want specifics.