One of my favorites is the shot from above the rotating ceiling fan as Martin Sheen goes mad in his Saigon hotel room at the beginning of Apocalypse Now.
A wonderful transition to an overhead shot occurs in Body Heat, right after Hurt and Turner kill her husband...the camera pulls away from a close up of them and takes a more objective point of view, which distances us from them (we were with them up to that point) and makes us aware of the immensity of their crime and the likelihood that they will be punished (although in this case, only Hurt is).
Professor Daniel Shaw
Chair, Philosophy Department
Lock Haven University (570) 484-2052
Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy
"Hope is the thing with feathers--/ that perches in the soul--/
and sings the tune without the words--/ and never stops at all."
Emily Dickinson
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