611. Directorpiece Theatre - White House Down: A Die Hard in the Rough
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The Importance of Diagonal Lines in Film
Most movies are shot on a soundstage, right? Like most movies are not shot on location. You have to physically build the ceiling. This movie decided we are going to build the ceilings and see them often. It's more than anything that die hard chose to avoid wide lenses in very particular cases. The simplest way to do that is to live on something like a 50 instead of a 35. While he can't be super telephoto, like an 80 millimeter or 100 millimeter, because then you get no sense of geography,. which is no good for these kinds of movies.
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