How David Fincher Hijacks Your Eyes

Girl with a Dragon tattoo was going to watch again just now that one film has something I don't know what but you can watch it again and again and again even though you know the plot...... but just for those visuals are his best of the best.

In this regard, Christian Petzold is Fincher's brother from another mother.

love it. thank you for this

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Here after watching the trailer for his new movie, The Killer, I noticed the camerawork being a bit...shaky.

I come back to this video again and again, it's such a great breakdown of this element of Fincher's style, and I think it highlights just why he's one of the best, if not the best, directors of his time. That shot with Downey Jr. sliding on to the office chair in Zodiac always stands out to me as particularly incredible, and I wonder how many takes they had to do for it.

Brilliant. I agree it is a crime he's not been given an Oscar yet

Thanks man…hope you’re doing well

Well done !

HOLY SHIT !! I have watched Fincher's work for thousands of times.... and I didn't pick up on this! Good Job! Thank You!

Excellent analysis and observations. I feel I should watch one of his film next time I watch a movie.

Excellent video!

fincer is awesome

It’s a beautiful style. Motion pictures….
pictures in motion. We see it in our life along with emotions with each persons movements telling us something about themselves. This we know; we can relate. Big moments in life happen and you recognize it by the eyes and the body language; whether it be still, or frantic. That’s what makes it so familiar. Not big explosions; we tell our story with gestures as language alone is not enough. Scorsese does it with place and character in kinetic ways that tell the story. Fincher is more intimate in his uses. These signatures of work is what makes auteurs interesting and worth revisiting.

this analysis was incredibly goo. wow

what a great video essay, luv it <3

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David Fincher fans are the most annoying people in the film community

amazing

I'm sure it played a part of how I got hooked on Mindhunter.

Something that interests me here is that personally, it does not give me the feel that if, say, the character is running then I am running. The exacting precision of the mirroring makes me feel that I'm not myself running, but rather that I am observing from a position of omniscience someone else running. It's like a distant god that is nonetheless deeply interested in these humans above all else. This deity of the camera is not interested in the outcomes, and has no desire, or perhaps no ability, to influence them one way or another. The only direct interest the camera implies to me is the desire to observe, perfectly and without bias, but I don't choose what is observed, and whatever is happening in the frame would happen with or without me.

Very good! Wish he’d finish Mind Hunter.

Now that you pointed it out.. I can never unsee it again
Damn you Fincher, you brilliant bastard

Deadly. Very well done. He’s my fav for sure.

Great video!

Getting stumbled upon this again and again. Great piece, man. Esp. sound and editing... Greetings to all Fincher' fans 😎

In Mindhunter itself the idea that the camera movement is mimicking or following the moving character is kind of elevated to the next level at the end of season 1. The whole show is filmed with a steady camera, following the characters on screen. And then the last time seen we see the main character, he has a panic attack and the camera goes hand held, is incredibly shaky and disoriented - perfectly capturing the turmoil of the seen and, in a way, the movement of the main character. Truly amazing.

I think if there is one lesson to be taught to young filmmakers, it's this:
The more information you convey in one shot, the better. Playing with the editing is fun, but you need to space out cuts and transitions to make them feel more special.

What is the background music called?

I also think that how we release certain bursts of satisfaction when we watch a dancer/stuntman/any choreographed act hit the cue perfectly. It’s the same with finchers camera movement, the actors hit the emotional and visual cue perfectly and it pairs up so nicely with the pacing he sets and ofc the editing that goes into creating the masterpieces that he does. This is the reason why I finished half seasons of Mindhunter in a day and you can’t skip his movies once you start watching them, especially fight club and the social network. It is very very difficult to take your eyes off of screen and the engagement certainly works for better story telling as the viewer is not missing any detail, Literally!

I prefer to say he commandeers my peepers.

Mindhunter lives in mind rent free. I am Obsessed officially.

He's the best living American director by far

enthralling

the music , the examples, the 'TAKES'....... spot video. Appreciate it

Behavior over time reminds me of something Frank Zappa said about composition. He felt the art lies in balancing smaller dense 'weight' with larger spacious 'weight', like a pendumum, The more notes you want in a spacious passage, the more time it needs, the fraction of space to time must be small, but then you should balance them against passages with more notes to less time, with the key being that its not the number of notes, but the time they come in. You see it in his writing where he'll balance out dizzing relatively short blizards of highly structured notes and complexity with more protracted periods of simpler music, often as a backdrop to improvization to allow the soloists time to breath and the audience permission to tune out a bit more and just vibe with it, before it drops back into a much more concentration intensive, but shorter complex passage. I think its an idea that can be deployed across the arts. Longer more ponderous, or just relaxed in tone passages with shorter more intense passages. (Which also reminds me a maxim about what it feels like for a soldier in the trenches, 99% mind numbing boredom , 1% pants shitting terror. Obv the film maker should NOT be pitching for the 99% boredom, though pants shitting terror might be appropriate for the right sort of film!)

this is so on point! great analysis!

TURN OFF THE RIDICULOUS, SPEECH BLURRING MUSIC..

This is easily one of the best analysis I have seen in years. Love the work man. Fuck, you are a genius in understanding this. Brilliant one, brother man!!👍

Sorry to say sir, but the background music is disturbing the focus.

This deliberate camera movement with an emphasis on behavior and movement was something that Alfred Hitchcock would do. In a commentary for the Psycho DVD, Janet Leigh (she played Marion in Psycho) said that she had to learn how to calibrate her performance to the speed and cadence of the camera so that they would be locked in synchronicity. It would almost give a voyeuristic vulnerability to his characters and only help to build more suspense in the audience by tuning you in to the actions and behaviors of the actors.

Awesome! This is the best channel.

Wow

Really?? You were creeped out? Lol no you weren’t.

OK I've been searching far too much but... what's the music used during the video?
Please help me

David Fincher is so artistic. I wasn’t even born in the 70s but I honestly feel the nostalgia of the 70s when I watch this. It’s crazy. Don’t ask me to elaborate. He’s a genius.