It's incredibly refreshing to see a film reviewer on KZread that has a grasp for the technical side of filmmaking and cares enough about a movie to analyze its presentation rather than just describe the plot of the film and whether they liked it or not. Thank you for making these. Hope your Patreon campaign goes well.

@Landscapesuk

9 жыл бұрын

I follow you both and find it endlessly eye opening and almost essential for how I see movies. It's like I've been waiting for someone to say this stuff all my life. Thank you.

@junjunjarjarbinx

9 жыл бұрын

Everything is important in a film. You can have great technical shots, well designed scenes, but none of those work if the plot sucks. You'll be thinking about why is this scene relevant before you decide that it's gorgeous. For instance, Michael bay can produce wicked cgi and create epic looking scenes, but I'm thinking what the fu k is going on with this movie (transformers: age of extinction). I say plot and story are the core in film making, and everything else should serve to compliment the story. David fincher can certainly have a style of film making, but he also tends to choose dark stories, which compliments his undertone and gloomy style. But more important, every decision that he makes informs the plot (interview with Flynn and Pike). When he makes movies, everything right, all shots are relevant, all scenes designed in a way to inform the overall narrative.

@Orbis-Factor

9 жыл бұрын

***** Not entirely true... As my good friend Akira Kurosawa stated: "With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The script must be something that has the power to do this." I understand what you're saying; that the technical power of cinema can be very persuasive, but your type of thinking is precisely what is destroying Hollywood right now.

@Gotakibono

9 жыл бұрын

Wow, it's fantastic to see my two favourite film dudes on KZread bump into each other. Both of you do stellar work - keep these videos coming.

@Bhetol

9 жыл бұрын

***** Ridley Scott's motto.

After he calls viewers perverts and stares into the camera, I feel like he's undressing me with his eyes. lol.

@theartist124

8 жыл бұрын

+HalcyonSerenade He was looking right through the lens directly at you! lol

@asielsmith6007

8 жыл бұрын

+HalcyonSerenade Ikr, I felt the same

@calipanhead

8 жыл бұрын

+asiel smith Fincher and chill.

@asielsmith6007

8 жыл бұрын

actually he was the pornstar, and then decided he'll like to be behind the camera instead. When he realised he was quite good at it he heavily edited his work..... for a more, um... less stimulated folk??

@DarkAngelEU

8 жыл бұрын

+asiel smith the movies he makes are for stimulated people, they get off on different content though ;)

That smile in the end

@minutewalt

8 жыл бұрын

Like the cat who caught the canary, something he got away with but can't contain his pride. So coquettish, and somewhat adorable. Just pat the Fincher on his face. Jeez, Tony kind of cut that perfectly. Love seeing someone that's good at what they do criticizing and analyzing their chosen artform, using that same format to express analysis and criticism.

@praveensharma9893

7 жыл бұрын

Always be around a hunky man when you're with Fincher. Make sure you pay the hunkbeef. Take care.

@NatsAdvice

6 жыл бұрын

yeah thats been playing in my mind over and over haha

@Gyork_

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks to the perfect cut and the music volume ramping up gives you a sense that there's more to it.

@chloerines

5 жыл бұрын

just keep that Emily ratajkowski scene from gone girl in mind...

I wish I were cinematically literate enough to even catch any one of these nuances in films I watch.

@ysabarro333

7 жыл бұрын

Thrilla Whale Not too late to learn, I hope

@lukascielocaminante257

7 жыл бұрын

Just keep getting knowledge of the art, watching this channel may help, also plenty of books exist. One of the few thing is to *always* remind you that everything happens in a film for a reason, nothing is left to random, remind you that the camera is present, always. You'll get all the angles and cut easily. It may ruin some of movie experience for you (it did for me after I entered cinema classes) but it opens a *whole* new world. I remember when I was a kid I wouldn't even notice cuts, like it's sound stupid but it seemed logical for me, born in a generation where everything comes at you in such massive flow of video flux, when I actually learnd grammary of cinema it changed my view like hard, I still remember how I wa not getting it and had bad grades my firt year along with 3/4 of my classes, I was like "but why ? I worked on this..." but I didn't did it the right way, after it "clicked" (that's the key word) I jusut couldn't miss any cuts lol, then t just develops from there, slight different focals, the étalo (doesn't know what's the english word ? The colour of the pciture if you'd like" and importantly : how all of these grammary tools serve the subject. That's the main thing, the most important one. Hope you continue get into this, and long live cinema.

@MaartenvanRossemLezingen

7 жыл бұрын

You may not have noticed it... But your brain did.

@TaoPhysiques

6 жыл бұрын

Thrilla Whale You don't have to be "cinematically" smart, just observant and focused on the details. Even moviegoers who watch films as a hobby can explain why X shot focused so much on X character or X item. Every time the camera pans towards something or someone, there's a reason behind it.

@anacosta6181

6 жыл бұрын

Relatable

Shit, this channel is great.

@averagebusinessmen2

8 жыл бұрын

+Juan Sebastian Amador Bjarner lol i thought i commented on this video a long time ago and forgot about it

@borohhh

8 жыл бұрын

+Jack Mancuso HAHA! Great taste you got, sir.

@lok2676

8 жыл бұрын

+Juan Sebastian Amador Bjarner so where is that picture from?

@borohhh

8 жыл бұрын

Radiohead album. Amnesiac.

@edumalafaia11

8 жыл бұрын

+maskei Right? I just subscribed few minutes ago. The soundtrack of this video was amazing, a good editing/soundtrack choice inside a review of a great director.

I love David Fincher, one of my favorite directors. And he's right, I am a pervert.

@MrHonwe

8 жыл бұрын

+Jombo What did he mean by that though??

@Treadstone2AwesOMe

8 жыл бұрын

+MrHonwe I think he meant that we, as audiences, like to invade the privacy of the characters on screen. Which is why he lets uncomfortable and private things like rape scenes go on for a long time, and how he holds a shot to seriously ramp up the tension.

@MrHonwe

8 жыл бұрын

Theodore Tan oooooooooohhhhhhhh

@juliamunozderios1414

6 жыл бұрын

So is Kevin

@tf5500

6 жыл бұрын

Jombo Do you have instagram? We can talk about movies.

Tony leaving KZread has left a massive hole. Miss you buddy. Hope you're doing well.

@mb2001

3 жыл бұрын

?

@Chris-tc7gk

3 жыл бұрын

@@mb2001 about 4 years ago he posted a video saying goodbye and that he was ending Every Frame A Painting for the foreseeable future. I can't find it anymore. Edit: Here is the article nofilmschool.com/2017/12/rip-every-frame-painting-farewell-advice-tony-zhou-and-taylor-ramos

@mb2001

3 жыл бұрын

@@Chris-tc7gk Oh… I see.

@ajgonzalez5109

2 жыл бұрын

totally agree, one of the best channels in the whole platform in my opinion.

@Graphomite

Жыл бұрын

Where'd he go? ...does he create on another platform?

"Double rainbow!? What does it meeean?" Lol

@handsinknead77

6 жыл бұрын

I totally scrolled down to see if someone commented on that. X-) Fincher's hip to YT reference. Nice.

@Quakeee

5 жыл бұрын

can you explain ? I actually didn't get it :(

@ejensen

5 жыл бұрын

Child kzread.info/dash/bejne/gYWHsMqkZayphKw.html

You know what? I'm okay with David Fincher calling me a pervert.

@NihonNiv

5 жыл бұрын

I can't argue with the truth, so I'm okay with it as well.

@SightForMemories

4 жыл бұрын

I think we're all okay with it..

@thedoctor2871

Жыл бұрын

We're all perverts, they just don't know it yet.

@joeking6972

Жыл бұрын

It's the truth. And it's the people who deny it that you have to look out for...

@LordVader1094

Жыл бұрын

@@joeking6972 Truth only from your point of view

After years I keep coming back to this channel.. such a gold mine

@jtwinter1126

3 жыл бұрын

So true

@jdrc1233

3 жыл бұрын

Good channel, good narration, good analysis, good useful information, good way of editing. *last video 6 years from now*

@giuliolepri596

3 жыл бұрын

We all do buddy, we all do.

@user-ny6jk7ol3m

3 жыл бұрын

What happened to this channel???

@giuliolepri596

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-ny6jk7ol3m It's closed. The video will remain online and available but there wont be no more new stuff uploaded on this channel.

Hey...David Fincher is a pretty man

@s.bakyhnh1756

7 жыл бұрын

Pervert.

@chloerines

5 жыл бұрын

hes mine thank you very much

@BubblewrapHighway

5 жыл бұрын

He's like a Swiss Guy Fieri.

@Leprutz

5 жыл бұрын

You are all damn perverts. I am glad to be part of the club. lol

@VictorAHunter

4 жыл бұрын

@@sicongli6594 metal...Gear??

Came here as soon as I saw the trailer for VOIR. Congratulations Tony

@snapperjw

2 жыл бұрын

Yep same here. Back again to what Tony in action.

Lately everything has a shaky cam, it drives me nuts-

@Onmysheet

9 жыл бұрын

Irreversible would be one hell of a ride for you. lol

@AbhishekSingh-uv4rt

9 жыл бұрын

or cloverfield !!!

@frankunderwood2325

9 жыл бұрын

Onmysheet The two have nothing to do with each other. One is for artistic effect, the other for fear. I absolute love irreversible, but I loath the shaky cam as slung into popularity by The Blair Witch Project and used throughout action shot.

@Liliputian07

8 жыл бұрын

frank underwood I love found-footage shit, because I used to be obsessed with filming my life and watching it over again when I was a kid. That's not the only reason, though - it definitely lends some power and drama to scenes when used right.

@nicolaslabra2225

8 жыл бұрын

DigitalBerserk shaky cam is not to be confused with handheld

The ending just killed me. Love the guy. Great video, thanks.

@Francosteiner

8 жыл бұрын

+Aleksandre Mzhavia agreed altho I cant say I know too much of his body of works of the top of my head.

David Fincher calling me a pervert and then smiling was the cherry on top of the reasons why I love this man.

Fincher's style is very much like the way scenes are composed in graphical novels. It's true you can watch his movies with the sound turned down and still get a very good idea about what is going on.

I swear, David Fincher is my favorite director working today.

@warlord456able

6 жыл бұрын

carloswachuwa13 he's my 2nd or joint first with Nolan... but my favourite to study

I don't care how many hundreds of times I watch Fight Club; that flying shoe cracks me up like the very first time, EVERY time.

@everyframeapainting

9 жыл бұрын

Jason Gormally I feel like this is what doing 50 takes gets you. That one take with a perfect flying shoe. I also LOL every time at Brad Pitt pulling off Norton's shoe and beating him with it.

@smeagol92055

9 жыл бұрын

Fight Club is full of shots that are just too perfect.

@rainpeopleperson

7 жыл бұрын

Can anybody shed some light? I've seen Fight Club about a hundred times and again after reading this comment and have no idea what scene you guys are talking about

@TheMaukingbird

7 жыл бұрын

It's one of those montage scenes where fight club members have to pick fights with random people. 6:28

David Fincher is the main reason why I am an aspiring filmmaker.

@2nd3rd1st

7 жыл бұрын

Cigarettes are the main reason why I'm an asthmatic filmmaker.

@johnsmith5669

7 жыл бұрын

Debilitating bouts of malaria are the reason I'm an attritive filmmaker.

@salmanyafiz

7 жыл бұрын

Alcohol is the reason why i am an abusive filmmaker

@lukascielocaminante257

7 жыл бұрын

3D is the main reason why I'm an antipathic filmmaker.

@TitusCheshire

7 жыл бұрын

Drugs are the main reason why I'm an abstract filmmaker

Trent Reznor and David Fincher complement each other's styles so well.

That last cut is so awesome though!!! That smile and than the perfect blend with the music!! Love it!!

Stanley Kubrick episode?

@EndOfSmallSanctuary97

8 жыл бұрын

+Harry Smith Yes yes yes yes. He's my favourite director and I study/worship him.

@opmike343

8 жыл бұрын

+Harry Smith We're not ready.

@LegoStarMovies

8 жыл бұрын

+opmike343 Well, he said that he wouldn't do videos on directors that tons and tons of people have already talked about. So, the chances of him doing a Kubrick video are very slim.

@miguelpereira9859

7 жыл бұрын

LegoStarMovies But there aren't a lot of videos on KZread about his film making style tho. Most of them are interpretation videos which make theories of his movies and the others are Illuminati/Moon landing conspiracy bullshit

At the end there, he is the Zodiac

@matt.pma.kresnaputra5458

7 жыл бұрын

The truck driver in Nice, France is the zodiac killer

@zodssnappedneck2806

7 жыл бұрын

The truck itself was the Zodiac Killer.

@Mothman1992

7 жыл бұрын

France is the Zodiac killer, stabbing people with the Eiffel Tower

@sluggishhollow2030

3 жыл бұрын

Fuck I didn't watch the Zodiac.I hate spoilers ! Next time warn while giving a spoiler

This shows how perfect Fincher and Sorkin are for each other. I really wish they'd do more together. They compliment each other perfectly. Fincher knows how to direct the deep expository scenes Sorkin loves to write.

The final quote in this video is 100% correct. You realize it the more you grow older that the people around you are as fucked up and have their own little details which make it fun to see.

@jmwild1

7 жыл бұрын

I love the twinkle in his eye with that shit eating grin. He is so devilishly appealing, but if I was an actor I wouldn't last more than 10 takes working with him.

I miss this channel so much...

It's amazing how you can come back to a channel like this, almost 8 years later on and see how his analysis still holds up. With Mindhunter basically being about sitting around and having complex and deep talks with deeply disturbed men, and Gone Girl being about how a marriage gone sour were for most of the movie the characters are practically alone in the shots and how surgical the whole movie feels (like how the wife surgically creates the perfect escape framing her husband). Not to mention how little close ups at all in Gone Girl, and how expertly the close ups are used in the interrogation scenes in Mindhunter! Wish this channel would come back!

One of my favorite directors along with Richard Linklater and Edgar Wright.

@alifa9675

6 жыл бұрын

hell yeah! all of them rule!

I hate handheld too, it's overused and cheap.

@MrRadioperse

8 жыл бұрын

+tdreamgmail Especially with the genre of handheld "homemade" movies. fucking paranormal activity 9000+

@TheGeorgeD13

8 жыл бұрын

+tdreamgmail Depends on how it's used. It's used quite well in Seven, but in movies like Blackhat, that just gives me a headache.

@borohhh

8 жыл бұрын

+metricmetamorph That's so frustrating.

@TheGeorgeD13

8 жыл бұрын

***** You also gotta remember that handheld is very different from shaky cams. Shaky Cams are overused, but believe me, more movies use handheld cameras than you think.

@borohhh

8 жыл бұрын

+George Daugherty I know George. I happen to be a film enthusiast haha. But horror "homemade" movies are indeed shaky cams. I know handheld is really common and most of the time really intricate and suitable. You can check out a video on my channel called Paranoid Android, tell me what you think.

Do an episode on Paul Thomas Anderson

@moviemaen

9 жыл бұрын

Jeffery Lebowski you´re not mr lebowski.. you are the dude.. ok ? so thats what you call yourself... that.. or his dudeness or duder or el duderino, if you´re not into the whole brevity thing

@masonbrown9155

9 жыл бұрын

moviemaen those dickholes at google+ urinated on my rug

@moviemaen

9 жыл бұрын

Jeffery Lebowski was it a valuable rug, dude ?

@ofilantvanderplas

9 жыл бұрын

He will propably do that when inherent vice gets released, i think!

@masonbrown9155

9 жыл бұрын

SamActionMovies hopefully

That smile is kind of...HOT

@cynthiat4949

7 жыл бұрын

Ikr?

@fifinoirdefer9458

7 жыл бұрын

Philogal H Smile of who ?

@mas6525

7 жыл бұрын

Thank God I'm not alone.

@temperspace

7 жыл бұрын

Pervs...

@mas6525

7 жыл бұрын

Avacado's Constant Ikr

I still get back to watching this every now and then.

my favorite youtuber making a video on my favorite director. I don't think I can handle this...

Has anyone been reporting their findings from Gone Girl to you yet? Just in case, I noticed: yet again, loads of exposition and people talking at a table one handheld shot of Affleck running to his car from the press a lot of switching POV'S (husband, wife, diary, cops, cameras) increased use of fades in editing (maybe this started in Benjamin Button? or Zodiac?) camera doesn't go through anything

@luisguillermojg

9 жыл бұрын

There's at least one moment where one of the characters talks to another one offscreen (use of emptiness in the frame), but I don't remember what it was. Maybe it was Affleck's character talking to his sister and then going to another room to pick the box full of letters, but I'm not %100 sure.

@kinghadbar

9 жыл бұрын

luisguillermojg Yeah, that sounds right. Maybe a similar moment in the trailer park when Amy's two new "friends" start tossing her bedroom and it's filmed from another room over?

@everyframeapainting

9 жыл бұрын

There's a moment of emptiness when Amy looks at Nick and touches the bed next to her, implying there's a space for him. I also saw two fridges. TWO, Fincher? COME ON.

@luisguillermojg

9 жыл бұрын

Every Frame a Painting Perhaps they had two fridges in the novel. Must investigate further...

@kinghadbar

9 жыл бұрын

Every Frame a Painting The guy loves fridges, man.

This is cinephile porn. New favourite channel.

How did I JUST discover you channel????

I love how you pointed out that Fincher used the camera in a what that doesn't make you think a person is holding it. It's almost like the camera is an out of body experience, or a ghostly chase. Really the only film that has the shakiness in it that truly makes the scenes work for me is Saving Private Ryan. It'd be neat if you could do a short video just on the D-day scene, but I figure many folks already have.

@miguelpereira9859

6 жыл бұрын

creekandseminole I liked how the brazillian film "Elite Squad" used it. It really added to the feel of the movie IMO

@PhantomFilmAustralia

2 ай бұрын

The scenes of war, (particularly the D-Day scene) in Saving Private Ryan was shot handheld and was a decision by Spielberg to emulate the spontaneous hand-held visuals of authentic WW2 archival footage. Outside of the scenes of conflict, the camera is stoic, deliberate, or controlled.

And now Tony from this channel has a Netflix doc with Fincher! Amazing

@josuebenvindo

2 жыл бұрын

Really? What is the name of the doc?

@ahmedhallajian8886

2 жыл бұрын

@@josuebenvindo VOIR :)

@josuebenvindo

2 жыл бұрын

@@ahmedhallajian8886, thank you. I gonna watch it.

Funny how i use you videos about camera directing to get better at framing comic panels. Thank you and keep up the good work

@jonathonraist

8 жыл бұрын

It also works well in learning how to better frame in photography.

@MisterRlGHT

7 жыл бұрын

***** I concur about Watchmen, and all the more fascinating in that every panel of the 12-volume epic is exactly the same size and shape, regardless if it's a close-up of an eye or a panoramic landscape. The strict rigidity of the layout keeps our focus on the content within each frame rather than using relative size & shape to emphasize one panel over another.

@bodhimind108

4 жыл бұрын

Ditto. I try to borrow from everywhere.

This is actually really useful info if you're into graphic novels as well, considering how the still shots are organized.

@AidanB

8 жыл бұрын

Sorry but what do you mean? :)

@BlueisNotaWarmColour

8 жыл бұрын

Aidan Brooks I'm just pointing out that if you were writing and drawing some kinda comic, this would help you construct many of the dialogue-driven scenes. Laying out the panels and whatnot.

@luckygitane

8 жыл бұрын

+The Lukanator Very true, but be wary. There are many things that work on screen but not on the page. Vice versa, don't be critical of something that works on the page because it wouldn't onscreen.

@youarelife3437

Жыл бұрын

I love comparing comic frames and movie frames. I find comic books movies most interesting. It's shame there's not many of those. All of Frank Miller's work, Dick Tracy, Unbreakable.. that's about it. Please suggest more if you know any.

Handheld is usually overused or exaggerated to make it look "handheld" "Impressive" camera moves is also overused (The Hobbit, I'm looking at you). Save the impressive camerawork for the impressive or important moments or the whole movie will become bland.

@BollocksUtwat

8 жыл бұрын

+GonkThePowerDroid Its remarkable going back to the Lord of the Rings films and looking at how well balanced it was visually compared to the hobbit, without even getting into arguments over CGI. Jackson in LOTR was at his peak form giving us both a big story with impressive visuals to underscore the enormity of the world and the task before them but also giving us a very intimate collection of character stories inside of this grand stage. The Hobbit failed at this in both respects, perhaps because to augment a lack of as comprehensive a character story the Hobbit actually is he expanded action that was tone deaf to the style and mood of the world we all know from the books and LOTR films and because the action itself was so disconnected from the story that was there because Tolkien was never about action like what Jackson used to stuff the Hobbit into a trilogy.

@Andrewroo12

7 жыл бұрын

Impressive camera moves can't be overused IMO. If they are stylish and flaring to the point where it's distracting it's a problem. Look at Edgar Wright and Martin Scorsese, who are both excellent with putting energy in to the camera but always to serve the characters, story, comedy, dialogue etc. Handheld can be done well, like Paul Greengrass in Bourne Ultimatum, but it takes a lot of work to make the camera move feel organic and purposeful when doing handheld. I do think impressive camera work should definitely be reserved for important moments or payoffs or indications or anything worthy of emphasis, but it should also come from a lot more than just camerawork to emphasize something (actors, delivery, editing). Michael Bay overdoes camerawork because it's distracting and all style and 0 substance, and most of the time is to no purpose, and his camera movements, composition and framing is most of the time not going to be serving the characters or story in anyway. I think it's more about what to convey and how to convey it to emphasize something, whether it's impressive camerawork or not.

Have an additional new found respect for Fincher after watching this video.

@SlenWash

8 жыл бұрын

+JstyleFilms Me too.

My favorite director.

I had to re-watch after hearing about the announcement of VOIR. Congrats to both Tony and Taylor, can't wait to see what you have been up to!

I find your observations interesting and insightful. Would love to see your take on more directors -- on the Coen Brothers in particular.

@everyframeapainting

9 жыл бұрын

Andy "Hi my name is Tony and this is Every Frame a Painting. These two guys are geniuses." --> cue DJ Shadow music, done.

@ExtremehamJkd

9 жыл бұрын

Every Frame a Painting But why are they geniuses, Tony? This can only be explained in sufficient depth in a video essay. :)

@Lethologican

9 жыл бұрын

ExtremehamJkd I think you mean *several* video essays (or several dozen), which might be the problem. :P

I miss you, Tony. Everyday.

I wish this channel would of kept on. 5 years since the last video and I'm still recommending this channel as a gateway to understanding film

@kalm4th

2 жыл бұрын

David Fincher put out a 6 episode documentary series on Netflix called VOIR that Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos did episodes for.

So, now I'm a pervert

@idiotDB

7 жыл бұрын

Ruth S only now?

Subbed. What a great video

@redshirts4757

6 жыл бұрын

Arent you Stuckmann’s boi?

Fincher quoting "Double Rainbow" Awesome!

There's a special place in heaven for Tony Zhou.

Fincher-Reznor >>>> Nolan-Zimmer

@TASCmedia

7 жыл бұрын

Yes. Oh god, yes.

6 жыл бұрын

I am agreeing so hard.

Fridge shots are so film school.

"Even if you don't like Fincher "...I mean , come on...Who doesn't like the guy if not love..

@kieranl5249

8 жыл бұрын

Sada sivan I don't particularly like him. I don't hate him.

@slug237711

8 жыл бұрын

+Sada sivan Still my favorite director.

@Cinetropa

7 жыл бұрын

It's impossible to hate anyone we don't know personally.

@bored_person

7 жыл бұрын

I have mixed feelings on him and his style.

@mikepuppetz9

6 жыл бұрын

I'm kinda mixed. He's either really amazing or just meh. For every Fight Club, there's The Game. For every Se7en, there's an Alien 3. For every Gone Girl, there's a Panic Room.

Fincher is one funny and down to earth guy

And now he's working with David Fincher.

Without a doubt these are some of the best videos I've seen anywhere about film, you know how Tarantino makes movies that make you want to make movies, your video essays have that same power. You're really good at this.

@crystalash227

Жыл бұрын

Tell em

i remember seeing the game in the 90's when i was a young teenager and thinking that the atmosphere and feel of that movie was unlike anything i'd felt before. He creates worlds that make you feel them viscerally.

@CloverPickingHarp

4 жыл бұрын

Devin Michael Roberts Ditto

I don't usually love the concepts but he's a genius - "like what's happening is doomed to happen". Love it.

Fincher's body of work is nearly flawless, and he just keeps getting better. He manages to convey the most intense uneasiness with amazingly choreographed camera shots that don't rely on the support of excessive dramatic music, sound effects or cheap gore. It's pretty amazing how he draws from his actors every ounce of emotion needed to make the viewer understand what's going on in their minds with as little as a well-placed frame. I haven't checked if he has favorite editors of DPs, but I would guess he does, because the structure of his movies is usually as recognizable as his directing style. His refusal to overuse handheld is also something I would like to thank him personally for. I want to watch a story develop without the need to also develop a headache, you know?

My favorite close up ever was that zodiac scene i just love that and putting that bird noise in there while showing the bullets.Fincher is probably my favorite director

An awesome video essay Tony. Love the way you present this. Insightful and extremely enjoyable

i LOVE david fincher's work. he is such a crafty storyteller.

Personally I LOVE it when a movie has an intro clip with some music, like in Se7en. When it's well done it's not cheesy at all, but actually sets the theme right away. It also makes the movie very memorable. I don't know if you did a video on this yet, I just found your channel!

I just watched all your videos, and it seems to me that Fincher is basically the anti-Michael Bay. Bay seems to do the things Fincher doesn't and vice versa. Where Bay uses more layers, Fincher uses minimalistic sets or even emptiness. Where Bay uses zooms, close-ups and rotating hero-shots all the time, Fincher uses a static camera and changes it only in cuts when it actually means something. Where Bay uses shaky cam and overwhelming visual impact like explosions and quick cuts to give the viewer the feeling they're just a tiny powerless being watching the scene unfold, Fincher uses steady and static shots giving the viewer the position of an omniscient god. In short, Bay seems to try to make every shot 'epic', to make the film as a whole seem epic, while Fincher uses more subtle techniques to tell his stories, using absence of things as effectively as the existing objects. Like you said, it's all about what Fincher doesn't do.

I'm learning so much from you... and I don't even fully understand most of what you're talking about. Thank you for making my viewing experiences that much richer.

Too good. Keep on posting more of these

For having just a single handheld shot in the entire film, it's employed effectively and meaningfully in The Social Network. Of course itd be on Sean Parker as discovers the cops are at the sorority party as hes coked out -- great way to sparingly use the handheld to represent the anxiety of this moment, and to hammer home Parkers debauchery.

Every young filmmaker needs to watch this video. I've seen so many indie and big budget movies over the past couple of years where there is an overuse of close-ups. The Purge movies had way too much shaky cam and waaay too many close-ups.

Well done video! Its mice to see someone genuinely love the industry, and intelligently discuss it in such an entertaining way. Without histrionics. Thank you!

Dude, you videos are rock solid. The audio is at a constant and comfortable level, no jump cuts, and the voice over is impeccable. Simple, yet extremely effective. Keep it up, brother.

great work as ever! thanks Tony! you're so close to 1 million, man! congratulations!

OK THAT INTERVIEW CLIP WAS PERFECT DUDE. I could see in his eye that he knew what he said was awkward and he welcomed the judgement with laughter... That is the kind of person i wanna know

@yahwatever5698

7 жыл бұрын

Micah Hobson I was trying to put my finger on why I loved that clip so much, you nailed it haha

@SonicGenerations1100

7 жыл бұрын

***** Well ya know what? The only reason I could figure it out is because I'm that kinda person. I describe my current presence in highschool as "My name spreads like herpes."

Fincher is the reason why I got so into film. There was a time when my favourite movie was Transformers but after Benjamin Button impacted me so much that I started looking at cinema more as an art than entertainment. Even though I do realize that the film that started it all wasn't as good as I thought, it still holds a place in the heart this cinephile and if I now watch films In the Mood for Love or Wings of Desire and study filmmakers such as Haneke or Bergman I have Fincher to thank for that. In the slight chance that you've seen this comment (it seems like you know the double rainbow so I guess you're somewhat in touch with the internet haha) I have to truly thank you, Mr. Fincher and I hope I can one day be cited alongside you as one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

Hey, just wanted to say I have just found these videos and they are absolutely brilliantly done, really love and appreciate the work. Many thanks

I've seen this video 10-15 times now, love your video essays!

Great job! This is becoming my favorite channel on KZread.

@IMmephiles

8 жыл бұрын

+TheGamerFromMars You here?

@aydankhaliq2967

2 жыл бұрын

It's weird to see a big channel with less then 10 likes on a comment.

Brilliant director - not always picking the best stories to tell, IMO, but perhaps he likes the challenge.

@ogfunk187

8 жыл бұрын

Disney approached him for a Star Wars film but they didn't agree to the same vision apparently. I would love to see a Fincher Star Wars film personally.

@Nygaard2

8 жыл бұрын

Agreed - and if Disney is clever about it, Star Wars can be an interesting canvass for a lot of storytellers.

@nicko2864

8 жыл бұрын

+Monkey Magic it would turn fincher mainstream, and i feel that often times ruins a directors career. (unless they had already been fairly mainstream like Abrams, because hes pretty good at what he does already).

@BollocksUtwat

8 жыл бұрын

+Monkey Magic Lets see, Fincher thinks we're all perverts and Disney owns Star Wars... how could that possibly not work out.... :P

@zenithquasar9623

8 жыл бұрын

+Magnus Nygaard That's true. He is like one hit, one miss, one hit, one miss. But he surely tells them interestingly none the less.

Love your works man! thanks a lot

this is brilliant - just what ive been looking for -great series keep it up please

Fincher is just so good.

You seriously make some of the best videos about films.

Ending on a smile in a close up... You're a class act, Tony!

This is one of the best edited pieces of KZread gold I've ever witnessed.. That transition at the end from Fincher to the credits and Donovan gave me goosebumps.

Was that ending cut and music meant to imply ... that Fincher is the Zodiac?

@mclare71

5 жыл бұрын

Haha!!

@baronharkonnen7894

3 жыл бұрын

Just coming back here when the zodiac mystery was finally solved

I think this channel is still the best of its kind.

I freaken love this channel!

I'm so happy I discovered this channel. I see a lot of channels on here that analyze film, but I love your focus on cinematography. Looking forward to more of your content!

Dude, I love this.

Man, you are my favorite critical film analysis channel on youtube, and the only one I've seen that is actually truly good. The rest are watchable at best. I really hope you keep making these for a long time to come because they are so entertaining, educational, and profoundly insightful. Side-note: Would you consider doing a video on Kubrick sometime? Scorsese and him are my director crushes at the moment, and I would love to hear your thoughts on Kubrick. :)

so well made, incredible editing and presentation

every upload from you feels like a well-made short film or docu. I love the quality of your content and felt like I had to say something. Thanks for sharing !

Zodiac is a masterpiece of using camera angles and composition to tell a story. It's a slow-burn, but it has some truly remarkable scenes.

"Even if you don't like Fincher"? That's a thing? Well alright.

@mewgiah8057

7 жыл бұрын

John Milton Def a thing. I know people in the film industry, that don't like his work. Why? Because some feel that his movies are "cold & overly analytical". Tony kind of touches on that, when he talks about how all his shots being on a tripod, and even movement is very smooth perfect. He's right that it's very similar to Kubrick. If you watch the Shining, it also has a very "clean" and almost "analytical" feel to it. And for some, this makes the films lack "soul" and "energy". So I actually can understand why some don't personally enjoy his work. But I love Fincher. I'm not that picky when it comes to film/art, and I actually seek out diversity, and am open to various styles. Fincher is definitely a master at his craft, and his style would probably be horrible for most filmmakers. But because he's so good at what he does, he uses his style effectively. As a side note, I know actors/production that hate Fincher, because he shoots and re-shoots scenes too many times. I think it was Robert Duvall, but he got angry when Fincher asked him to do a scene 50 times. He pretty much said, if you don't think an actor can get the scene right in 10 shoots, then you have no business working with actors (or something to that effect). He basically accuses Fincher of being incompetent, and overly lacking in confidence.

@hellodavey1902

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

@siinxx7656

Жыл бұрын

You just don’t say “I don’t like Finchers work” and get away with it calmly

Your analysis are excelent and your videos are always a pleasure to watch. Thank you for the passion and the work you put into it.

Excellent video, I really enjoyed it, thank you for making it.

0:48 Tywin??

@banurobymusic

8 жыл бұрын

+ferleal24 alien 3 , he bangs Ripley

@prplfleur

8 жыл бұрын

+ferleal24 Actor's name is Charles Dance. Yes, he's Tywin.

@Thorntonian

8 жыл бұрын

+Bark lounger Any interaction between Tywin and Joffrey was great. It was so good to see him put in his place.

"Even if you don't like Fincher..." If you don't like Fincher's films please contact me, because fuck cinematography, I would like to study YOU.

@BrownieX001

9 жыл бұрын

Mark Arandjus his name is bay. michael bay.

@blackops14141

7 жыл бұрын

You are my spirit animal :)

@haworthiaa

7 жыл бұрын

Mark Arandjus omg this

What a fantastic video!! Thank you

I miss you Tony! Your video essays are still the absolute best on youtube :)