[HN Gopher] Binocular Shot
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       Binocular Shot
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2025-03-09 15:55 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (binocularshot.com)
        
       | ChrisMarshallNY wrote:
       | That's a lot of effort for something that's really just a matter
       | of style. The Internet would be full, if we went after every
       | stylistic trick that videographers use, to signal various tropes
       | (like the "dizzy spell," or the "moving car").
       | 
       | Props for featuring Top Secret as the headliner, though...
        
         | bookofjoe wrote:
         | From "Top Secret": https://imgur.com/a/h3wR9Y2
        
           | brookst wrote:
           | Surely you meant: https://imgur.com/a/yEz4dSc
        
         | dzuc wrote:
         | See https://tvtropes.org for a whole lot of them.
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         | https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BinocularShot
        
         | serviceberry wrote:
         | The author isn't posting angry rants about it. I think one can
         | look at it as just a quirky collection. No different from
         | cataloging the movies that feature the Wilhelm scream, and how
         | many articles have been written about that?
        
       | Wyverald wrote:
       | > It currently features 36 fantastic films and also White Noise
       | (2022).
       | 
       | _oof_
        
         | bookofjoe wrote:
         | Until your comment I didn't realize that was a diss of "White
         | Noise." I kept trying to figure out why it was singled out....
         | Doh!
        
       | nine_k wrote:
       | At a press conference after the success of initial Star Wars
       | movie someone told George Lucas: "But spacecraft don't make that
       | whizzzzhh noise as they fly in space!", and Lucas replied: "I
       | know".
       | 
       | The truth in art is not the same as the truth in a physical
       | experiment.
        
         | weard_beard wrote:
         | Hypothesis formation is art. Without it there would be no
         | physical experiments. Every scientist is an artist at heart.
        
           | the_af wrote:
           | I think the point is that what looks good in art (even in
           | "realistic" art) is not necessarily what is "more like the
           | real thing". The Simpsons made a joke about this ("cows don't
           | look like cows on screen, that's why we use horses") but it's
           | true.
           | 
           | More importantly, what the author intends to convey sometimes
           | requires emphasis that isn't present in real life.
           | 
           | There was an extremely cool blog post about photography on HN
           | a year or so ago, where the point was made that there are no
           | "real" photos (in the sense of "accurately representing
           | reality"), there's always a choice by the photographer
           | (colors, framing, distance to subject, distortion, etc).
        
             | brookst wrote:
             | Very true. And not just the photography, all of the people
             | who produce the tools. Like even film chemistry:
             | https://www.vox.com/2015/9/18/9348821/photography-race-bias
             | 
             | Everything we interact with is the product of generations
             | of people, shaped by artistic choice, and filtered by
             | distribution and our own perception and cognitive biases.
             | 
             | Which sounds like I'm complaining but really I'm not... I
             | think it's inspiring and empowering to see the whole stack,
             | imperfect as it is.
             | 
             | So yeah, conversations about computational photography that
             | veer into "but it it doesn't capture _reality_ " betray an
             | oversimplified view of how all this works.
        
       | smusamashah wrote:
       | There was another website which let you find movie quotes. You
       | search for quote and it brought up small clip where characters
       | are saying that thing you searched for. Had very similar UI,
       | can't find it. Edit: probably https://clip.cafe/ there are few
       | others too
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       | There is another one which is like a Netflix of subplots
       | extracted from movies. I remember it had lots from Rick and
       | Morty. Because Rick and morty keeps bringing up random subplots
       | never to discuss ever again.
       | 
       | There is another website which is a gif database of awesome shots
       | from movies etc. It's like a reference database of camera work.
       | 
       | Will list when I find these urls.
        
         | achille wrote:
         | you might be thinking of seinquotes -> click the image to get a
         | video gif of the quote
         | https://seinquotes.com/?search=hold+the+reservation
        
         | wozniacki wrote:
         | another website which is a gif database of awesome shots from
         | movies etc.       It's like a reference database of camera
         | work.
         | 
         | Is it https://eyecannndy.com/ ? Or a different one ?
        
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