George noted:
> I haven't seen the film yet (and am in no hurry to do so), but it sounds
> like Mendes just used a wide-angle lens to flatten out the perspective.
> Amos Gitai uses the same effect brilliantly in a very long take in
> Kippur, with a stretcher crew trying to carry a wounded pilot through a
> field of mud. It feels like they aren't moving at all and the take must
> last something like four or five agonizing minutes.
Actually, Gitai used an extremely long focal length (sometimes called
telephoto) lens, not a short focal length lens, or as you call it,
``wide-angle lens,'' for the effect you described in ``Kippur.''
Robert Koehler
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