Coverage

Well, Guy shot it intentionally with no coverage. So you had to keep it in the movie. So Cubby was just steaming. And after the movie came out, and it was a huge hit, Guy said to Cubby one day, we're about to start Live and Let Die. And he said, you know, I was in Paris. I saw Diamonds Are Forever in Paris. And La Rochefoucauld got a big laugh.

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Sargent goes on and says, any responsible filmmaker would if he stumbled onto something that could spread into a new form of madness. You know, he would just sort of, he just kind of accepted it. And again, in that insurance policy, it was known as kook coverage. I read that and it was in quotes. And again, referencing later, in later years, the kook coverage was

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Nick Pinkerton

don't apply in this world. The gel that we saw in Eastwood's quiff at the beginning seems to have bounced out of the hair, which has now regained the volume and bounce that we've come to expect. Cimino's going between fairly close coverage in which we get the jostle and the ragged breathing, and then these expansive widescreen vista shots that dwarf the two men in counterpoint. And now,

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