{"id":13117,"date":"2020-07-26T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T17:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=13117"},"modified":"2020-07-26T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T17:27:24","slug":"cinematography-predator-scene-breakdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/26\/cinematography-predator-scene-breakdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinematography: &#8220;Predator&#8221; scene breakdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I really enjoy being taken inside the craft of visual storytelling, so I dug this step-by-step narrative of the techniques used in &amp; around Carl Weathers&#8217; character&#8217;s death in <em>Predator<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s especially interesting to contrast the sophistication on display with the cornball simplicity of <em>Commando<\/em>, a prototypical Ahnuld joint made just two years earlier. Now that my boys are getting just old enough to watch these flicks, we&#8217;re going back through the canon, making the quality uptick here all the more striking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PREDATOR spot the subliminals - Dillon&#039;s death scene\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/stg13-GQQ1U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, lemme know if someone has documented the inside story of Bill Duke&#8217;s inspired &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna have me some fun&#8221; freak-out. Meanwhile, here he is representin&#8217; on our fam&#8217;s last Yosemite trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/anytime-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13119\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/anytime-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/anytime-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/anytime.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoy being taken inside the craft of visual storytelling, so I dug this step-by-step narrative of the techniques used in &amp; around Carl Weathers&#8217; character&#8217;s death in Predator. It&#8217;s especially interesting to contrast the sophistication on display with the cornball simplicity of Commando, a prototypical Ahnuld joint made just two years earlier. Now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13120,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13117\/revisions\/13120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}