A 12-minute long take that most folks don’t even think of, thanks to the subtlety with which Welles and his cinematographer Russell Metty constructed it.
In the following video I’ve gathered the most breathtaking and significant silhouettes from Deakins’ filmography and stitched them together to demonstrate the wide variety of impacts for which they’re employed.
For this video, I tried to capture the best of film from the 17 years of this new millennium. Not every great film is here, but I tried to include as many as possible.