Why Do So Many Filmmakers Rely On THIS Trick?

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Throughout film history, there have been several camera tricks used by directors and cinematographer to portray different emotions and tones. The Dutch Angle might be one of the one of the most used tricks in the book. But where did the Dutch Angle actually come from? And why do so many filmmakers use The Dutch Angle in their movies?
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@olaminabryan8026 10 ай бұрын

DAYUM i didnt know joker was that thicc ok thumbnail we see you my boi

@frdvz 10 ай бұрын

Ikr? I failed nnn cause of that

@VDOTU5 10 ай бұрын

Ayo 😆

@VDOTU5 10 ай бұрын

@@frdvz *AYO!* 😳

@olaminabryan8026 10 ай бұрын

@@frdvz I didn't go dat far but it was close😤

@romanrules007 10 ай бұрын

😋🤤

@kris242 10 ай бұрын

I gotta say, while there are so many fantastic uses of the Dutch Angle out there… Terry Gilliam is easily one of the absolute masters of it. Particularly the way he used it in “12 Monkeys”, creating a visual reality that was just as bizarre as the screenplay itself. And then he went on to make “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” (mentioned in this video), where Gilliam manages to hold back a bit more from the angle, but still used it at moments particularly appropriate to evoke the otherworldly craziness of whatever drug (or combination of drugs) he was trying to portray. His movies kinda remind me of ‘Battleship Earth’ in a good way. While that particular film was a complete mess of every mistake a filmmaker could do, I feel like if Gilliam was at the helms, it would’ve been at the very least noteworthy for all the right reasons.

@Is_GrayKing 10 ай бұрын

Do you wanna know how i got these glutes?

@aksharaghav9657 10 ай бұрын

The most audacious (in a bad way) use of dutch angles has been in Michael Bay's Transformers crap and the first Thor movie.

@sticklebrickz 10 ай бұрын

Agree about transformers. Can't say it was great in thor, but not audacious. It was directed by Kenneth Brannagh, an old school Thespian as well as now well - known actor/director. Which I think, if nothing else, merits he be cut some slack for trying to bring some class into the MCU before the first avengers came out and it's trajectory was set.

@EthanKironus8067 10 ай бұрын

@@sticklebrickz Kenneth Brannagh directed Thor? That explains a lot, come to think of it.

@SourRobo8364 10 ай бұрын

Honestly never noticed the whole Dutch angle thing until the pitch meeting for Thor 1.

@BirdsAreScary 10 ай бұрын

My boy the Joker be lookin extra zesty

@VDOTU5 10 ай бұрын

* Bonk *

@MatthewTheWanderer 10 ай бұрын

So, it's called "Dutch" for probably the same reason that the Pennsylvania "Dutch" are called that. Also, I've heard the term "Dutch Angle" many times before, but never really explained until now. Most of the examples you showed in this video were a lot more subtle than I imagined they would be.

@picblick 10 ай бұрын

You forgot to mention that by tilting the camera, a filmmaker can emphasise the motive because it can take more space or fill the space more effectively. For example: You are shooting 16:9 One person on the screen You want the person to look imposing, so you crouch a bit, the audience now looks up slightly You want your motive to be centered to not leave enough context or empty space, shifting even more focus on your motive But oh no, if you center, there is a lot of space left and right, or the head is not good on screen So you make a slight angle, everything important is now perfectly in frame.

@HermanVonPetri 10 ай бұрын

Perfectly put! As in the thumbnail for this video from "The Dark Knight." Heath Ledger's Joker is seen in full with limbs flailing to the very edges of the frame. Yet he is still face to face with Batman who's profile is framed by the corner of the screen and the Joker in the center.

@Chairemy 10 ай бұрын

People, like dogs, put their head sideways when wondering. There isn’t some large conspiracy here. Pretend you are trying to figure something out and voila your head shifts now do that with a camera.

@LeonardoKlotz 10 ай бұрын

I love Dutch angles Especially accompanied with rotating roll axis

@slavemi3018 10 ай бұрын

does this angle come with a plan?

@DoogleLawless 10 ай бұрын

It's one of the most simple techniques available to a film maker, but as you pointed out with Battlefield Earth, it's the intention behind it that gives it it's power and meaning. It's gotta have substance otherwise it's just a bonky angled shot. It's that classic thing I was always taught in film school; you have to think about what you want your audience to feel, not what you want them to see.

@KremBotop 10 ай бұрын

Went straight to the expected Battlefield Earth section because of its infamy. Someone out there has to make an "undutched" edit of it to see just how bizarre it might look.

@Odysseus38 10 ай бұрын

Here i am watching this disappointed that we never covered the dutch angle in film studies 12 😂😂😂😂

@NostalgiaBoiLofi 10 ай бұрын

Amazing work as always!

@Jericho5255 10 ай бұрын

This video is officially the most I've ever watched of Battlefield Earth.

@kdm_entertainment 10 ай бұрын

The fucking sensodyne ads man. Made to look «authentic» with bad quality and non-sceipted appearamce but screams desperation. I dont buy it because of that alone

@Titanreaver616 10 ай бұрын

What I find most interesting is when considering it next to camera work that we physically can not replicate. Our eyes can't zoom, for example. But we can easily tell that. We can tilt our head, so on some level, it feels like a thing we can do, but we can not tilt the world we see, and so we can't get the same effect. This leaves it in a strange place as something we both can and can't replicate. And I think that's the biggest reason it can have such a strong effect on us. When used well, it can draw us in. When used poorly, it's like forgetting to turn off autotilt on your phone when you rotate the screen for a different angle. I don't know if that last comparison is universal or just me, but still. In any case, it's more annoying than engaging for sure.

@reflectsonlife 10 ай бұрын

When i think of Dutch Angles, I think of the Batman TV show of the 1960s. Theirs are super obvious, meant to attract your attention, usually made you l laugh, and are a satire/parody of the Dutch Angle and its uses.

@RawbeardX 10 ай бұрын

should be renamed the Battlefield Earth angle

@Perkeleen69 10 ай бұрын

I've heard about German expressionism so many times, but never about what led to it. good video

@jonathanmatthews4774 10 ай бұрын

I'd LOVE to see more First person view camera's as something new. But it'd have to be used sparingly. The movie Doom (as bad as it was), had a good example of First Person and I thought really made you feel more a part of Karl Urban's (or was it Dwayne's Johnson's?) rampage. Imagine seeing Spider Man, just his arms, webbing and swinging through New York. That'd be fantastic to witness. But, again, you'd have to be careful a movie doesn't overdue it.

@iamdunn1 10 ай бұрын

Have you seen Hardcore Henry? Whole movie was first person

@sticklebrickz 10 ай бұрын

Karl Urban was Dredd, not sure about doom

@ninjanibba4259 10 ай бұрын

Spider-Man was already done

@Vivi_9 10 ай бұрын

I loved that scene in Doom, felt like you took over the movie and could play it during the most kick ass scene, more movies should do it!

@christopherreyes7764 10 ай бұрын

Karl Urban does get that first person scene replicating Doom

@franciscoguerrero3750 10 ай бұрын

Several ot this exaples are not tilted. It is just perspective.

@DendyJungle 10 ай бұрын

It is a crime that you didn’t mention Michael bay

@AnaruBickford 10 ай бұрын

"Peppered.." I see what you did there. 👍

@VDOTU5 10 ай бұрын

Not sure why I like Dutch Angles, but I can't help but try to visualize how I would use them and when while plotting out scenes in stuff I'm writing.

@ninjanibba4259 10 ай бұрын

Think of Mission Impossible 1, with Ketrich talking to Ethan in the restaurant, using the conversation as it unravels with Dutch angles and close ups from the bottom Something like that can spark ideas

@Vivi_9 10 ай бұрын

There's two things I can't stand in this world, the intolerant, and the Dutch angles!

@TheElectricMayhem 10 ай бұрын

Brilliant.

@tylerhackner9731 10 ай бұрын

Good question

@tdevries4290 10 ай бұрын

“Peppered through the film” I saw what you did there 😅

@blackguyofthesouth2161 10 ай бұрын

Right. and then he shows a shot of Barry Pepper

@tetsuoshima2314 10 ай бұрын

Surprised no mention of Netflix's Cowboy Bebop, also misused/overused in that a ton.

@AndyJay1985 10 ай бұрын

Batman the 1966 series loved me some Dutch angles.

@vansolo12 10 ай бұрын

6:50 Barry Peppered

@K.Dilkington 10 ай бұрын

Makes me wonder why Christopher Nolan never uses the Dutch Angle.

@The-Mstr-Pook 10 ай бұрын

I like Battlefield Earth. Seen it four times. I don't get why it's so maligned. It's WAAAAYYY better then SW Sequel trilogy and all of the M-SHE-U

@ProductBasement 10 ай бұрын

Those darn Dutch are always taking the credit for things that us krauts invented. I'm half kraut, but I'm also half-limey, so instead of blaming England for renaming Deutschland "Germany" (we already _had_ a name, dangit!), I'm just going to blame the Dutch for stealing our name

@dcdad556 9 ай бұрын

Camera heads: a head is an interface between the camera dolly and the camera. It's attached to it. A fluid head has two balanced wheels for the operator to pan and tilt. A Sachtler head when used with a Hollywood handle (a long metal stick) can move the camera left/right and up/down with positions in-between. The Dutch head can position the camera from 9 o'clock to 12 o'clock to 3 o'clock position angles. It symbolically expresses imaging to characters moving "up hill" and "down hill" depending on the action.

@mattrose4154 10 ай бұрын

I remember being a 13 year old when Battlefield Earth came out and thinking….why is this movie so crooked. lol.

@anthonyruby2668 6 ай бұрын

BEST use of The Dutch Angle... Carlito's Way!

@PiercingSight 10 ай бұрын

Some of the examples you used aren't actually dutch angles. Just the camera looking up (or down) at something that it isn't facing head on, and the perspective is the only thing creating the perceived angle of the background. The shot you use at 3:29 is a perfect example of this. It's not a dutch angle. Just a camera looking up from the side.

@woongah 10 ай бұрын

"If a trick works for you, you use it" - every artist ever.

@DanEdenWasTaken 10 ай бұрын

I think you need to take a break. This stuff has been wack lately. As wack as saying the word “wack” sincerely.

@motorcub 10 ай бұрын

Idk if you've done it already but can you do Casper? Please?

@nickgoodwin8715 10 ай бұрын

Am I the only one who got a little dizzy watching all these cut-together dutch angles? Good video though.

@kapten-awesome 10 ай бұрын

Am I the only one that never sees a Dutch angle when it's in the movie or TV series? It just look like regular filming to me

@okAphex 10 ай бұрын

I absolutely hate how poorly some directors use this. It’s almost always misused now

@MitchCyan 10 ай бұрын

I didn’t know Heath Ledger was so 🍑

@AlexDiabMusic 10 ай бұрын

Watching this video sideways hits different

@wallengene 10 ай бұрын

I found myself tilting my phone during this video.

@dissolutevoid 10 ай бұрын

someone should stabilize battlefield Earth

@trikyy7238 10 ай бұрын

Inglourious etc is a turd. Never use it as an example.

@noahbeiter 10 ай бұрын

Don’t watch this video if you are drunk

@modernoverman 10 ай бұрын

I very much dislike dutch angles

@adhchopper 10 ай бұрын

I think they’re fairly hideous

@dervakommtvonhinten517 10 ай бұрын

ye, the motion it sturs in me is ANNOYANCE

@gordieramsey287 10 ай бұрын

Surprised Brian d'Palmas Mission : Impossible doesnt feature at all, thought the fishtank resturant scene would get a namecheck

@MrShaclakclak 10 ай бұрын

Battlefield Eart is a guilty pleasure.

@dannyganelin9777 10 ай бұрын

I was sure that your would talk about Dogme 95 that really popularized the Dutch angle for indie directors and eventually to big Hollywood blockbusters.

@troytennard2592 10 ай бұрын

Not sure why Tarantino was highlighted so much here. So many great movies out there and Tarantino is the gold standard on Dutch angles?

@benn5471 10 ай бұрын

Peak thumbnail game

@vincegallahan 10 ай бұрын

As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I was hoping this video would address Battlefield Earth.

@nvm9040 10 ай бұрын

The precursor of the Dutch angle the cabinet of dr Caligari deserves a shoutout

@c.ladimore1237 10 ай бұрын

lol i remember how bad the PLOT was in BFE, but I forgot how bad the camerawork was too. was every other shot a dutch angle for NO reason? at least he knew the difference between closeups and wide shots...