Kubrick departs from realism quickly enough: there's the startling use of subjective camera (it gets walloped a few times), and, in the fight scene, an unprecedented mix of lunging physical movement and comic surrealism.
Mr. Fincher has mastered the traditional syntax of cinematic suspense: the shifting points of view, startling cuts and slow camera movements that work subliminally to fill us with dread and anxiety.
It is larded with art historical references, startling juxtapositions and brilliant camera work and enriched by the faces, bodies, movements and general sexiness of a tribe of handsome young actors.
In another scene, a young man with startling blue eyes tells the camera, "This was the last text message I sent before I caused an accident that killed three people".
In the most startling shot, Mr. Mann places the camera right next to the fallen man, pointing it up at Dillinger's dark, ominous figure as he almost blots out that blue sky.
JOHANNESBURG — President Robert Mugabe's enforcers had already begun to rampage across Zimbabwe, beating his political opponents, when television cameras captured a startling image of Mr. Mugabe holding hands with the smiling South African president, Thabo Mbeki, a professed champion of African democracy.
At the end of the new Tate Modern exhibition, Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera, there are some startling pictures of suffragettes.
The first result from the flyby came from a startling image returned by Stardust's camera.
The cutting is quick; the camera moves around with startling intensity.
Warner Brothers persuaded the Broadway favorite Charlotte Greenwood ("Oklahoma!") to recreate her 1916 Broadway hit "So Long Letty" (1929) for the Vitaphone cameras, with the play's startling wife-swapping plot intact.
