For some reason, I keep remembering the Hale And Pace sketch in which a junior sub tells his editor he's finally come up with a headline for the story about the failed assasination attempt on Paul McCartney: Top Moptop Pot-Shot Plot Flops.
His best-known work, La Jetée (1962), is a short subject composed almost entirely of still photographs, with the exception of a brief film shot; the "plot" later served as the inspiration for the cryptic time-traveling drama Twelve Monkeys (1995).
It would mainly consist of self-contained scenes, done from one angle, in one continuous take, with no informational dialogue, no functional shots, no plot devices or any of the usual tricks cinema uses to suggest or elicit emotion.
I've always thought it'd be cool to have a real-life Play the Pros feature where the professional golfers' actual shots were plotted along the course in real time so you could, for instance, virtually play alongside your favorite golfer while he plays in a real tournament.
Before filming, shots were plotted out with a styrofoam, "foam-core Voyager mockup for scale and perspective".
At first the sadistic secret-police chief Lavrenti Beria emerged as strongman, until he was overthrown and shot in a plot hatched by Nikita Khrushchev.
Oliver frequently leans against the film's fourth wall, remarking on a shot or a plot point, an element that Mr. Ayoade stressed was more than a stylistic flourish: "Oliver thinks he's so aware of the clichés of life that he can circumvent them by cataloging and codifying them.
Murkily shot and lazily plotted, "The Tortured" is the latest bone tossed in the general direction of flayed-flesh enthusiasts.
Slopes (left) and Whittle values (right) for the doubled shot vectors are plotted against the undoubled results of Studies 1 and 2. The diagonal lines represent equal values in both measures; they are not regression lines.
This film is a wonderful production with nicely executed shots and story plot.
(I should say a shot unnecessary to the plot, but one that explicitly points to sex and sex addiction).
