"It would be one master shot — everybody'd be in it," he says.
He was of course referring to what is known as "the master shot," an establishing shot in film.
James Cameron's Terminator likes to look at the big picture, or the "master shot," as he puts it.
"He's such a strong actor, he can hold your attention even in a crowded master shot," Mr. Weinstein said.
And his own master shot shows him jumping from bodybuilding champ to top movie star to governor, scaling every peak "with tunnel vision".
For actors trained to set up a master shot and hit their marks, there is a bit of a learning curve, he said.
(Later, this master shot was intercut with the fishermen speaking. Perhaps Bob felt that in the context of the whole film, it called too much attention to itself).
The master shot was being filmed first - the truck would only explode once - and all the days of filming them half-submerged in the milk would follow it.
'Being the smart ass that I was,' Wahlberg explains, 'I jumped on these sandbags.' In the master shot, the milk barely touched him, and so for continuity's sake, he would have to stay dry thereafter.
During that day, for my film-within-a-film, we recorded Bob blocking Buck and Fred starting a campfire; commanding Huey to piss into the river, his character unaware of the body below; and precisely describing to cinematographer Walt Lloyd the elongated S-shaped master shot he wanted for the body reveal.
One was the full-frame "master" shot of men talking or fighting (two men, or three, or five) without any break into constituent parts for detail, rhythm, or emphasis — say, an arm tossing a grenade, a wound spilling blood, or a dying man's descent into death seen close.
