I love Bambi. That movie is an exercise in restraint. The pausesthe time allowed for a moment to bring you in, instead of moments being thrown at youit doesn't have to fill every empty space with a funny line or an explosion or with this drive to keep the attention. It's like: this is drawing me in. I watch these old films where the pace wasn't super-fast and there weren't 18 angles to cut away in order to see a car flipping over. There's a car wreck scene in Vanilla Skywhich I think was shot brilliantlywhere the car careens off the edge, goes into a dry riverbed, and smashes into the wall. It's a straightforward, master wide-angle shot of a big car falling off a bridge, not spectacularly with flips and turns and hubcaps flying at the camera lens, smashing into a wall. It made me jump out of my seat, because it was like standing there watching a car hit a wallfor realas opposed to jumping around to eight different points of view which you could never really perceive. I like filmmakers who use restraint and allow moments to breathe.
