It's steady cam! It's been the death of editors and the tripod! Directors can take a steady-cam to a remote location, do a quick set up and start shooting. The only problem is that when you blow up that image to more than a hundred feet across, the slightest movement makes you feel as if you were on a ship at sea and the whole room was rocking. I was extremely upset with Bayona who employed veteran actress Geraldine Chaplin (Dr. Zhivago and others) for a cameo and then shot the entire scene with steady-cam so that we never looked at her performance without the camera rocking back and forth, up and down... very disconcerting and a god-damn waste of a superior talent. I'd like to take every steady-cam and throw it on a big pile and burn every last one of them!
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