Basically, if an opening and closing shot stuck with me, I included it.” You can find more videos by Swinney over on Vimeo.

Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of 63, the. He started “by choosing movies that possessed either very similar or very contrasting opening/closing shots.” Then, he adds, “I decided to expand a bit to include films that show a story of sorts with just the first and final shots. R 2 hr 14 min Sep 3rd, 2005 Drama, Romance. It was while watching Gone Girl in the cinema that Swinney first came up with the idea for the clip. Strangelove), some more recently ( Birdman). Some show progress, some show decline, and some are simply impactful images used to begin and end a film.īelow the jump, you can find a complete list of the films used in the supercut, some released long ago ( Dr. Some of the opening shots are strikingly similar to the final shots, while others are vastly different–both serving a purpose in communicating various themes. What can we learn by examining only the first and final shot of a film? This video plays the opening and closing shots of 55 films side-by-side. Swinney frames his pretty remarkable supercut with these words:

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