Blow Out and Carrie, the camera movements in those films wow
3 weeks ago | 28
De Palma might as well have invented the split diopter and Blow Out is biologically speaking the greatest movie ever made but those SD scenes in The Hateful Eight are just unreal cinema 👌
2 weeks ago | 1
De Palma. The only reason Quentin uses split diopters is because De Palma used them. Nobody distorted scenes and reality like De Palma.
3 weeks ago | 45
Spielberg and Wise are both underrated here. Part of the brilliance of their shots is that they kept it subtle.
3 weeks ago | 6
The answer, of course, is Orson Welles for his work on Citizen Kane.
3 weeks ago (edited) | 6
I still think it's most perfectly used in (Citizen Kane). It doesn't look as pronounced as it does in the lists above.
3 weeks ago | 6
The single most effective use of split diopters that I’ve seen is in Tombstone, directed by George P. Cosmatos. Striking compositions, and you can never see the line demarcating the two sides of the diopter.
3 weeks ago | 5
De Palma and Tarantino are my favourites But Jaws was the first one that I personally saw that used that technique
3 weeks ago (edited) | 2
I think it’s easy to set Spielberg aside because he’s probably the most famous director of all time, but his split diopter shots of Chief Brody trying to watch the water while people in the foreground are distracting him, in Jaws, is just about the most perfect use of that technique I’ve seen. And it’s very simple. I gotta throw as much love as I can at that shot.
3 weeks ago (edited) | 0
These are all great but, Elem Klimov in Come and See is for me the most iconic use of the effect.
3 weeks ago | 0
First time I noticed it was in Reservoir Dogs. Split focus on the cop and Mr Orange. I'm like "wait, how did they do that?"
2 weeks ago | 0
I genuinely need to rewatch these movies now after watching your video about split diopters before I can actually answer this question haha 😅
3 weeks ago | 0
StudioBinder
Which director used split diopters most effectively? https://youtu.be/k6HkQvH5QvM?si=KdFli...
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