You are, of course, right, and I got it right when I reviewed the film but my
memory played me false when I sat down at the computer.
Just another senior moment.
George (They laughed when I sat down at the computer . . . .) Robinson
Robert Koehler wrote:
> 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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