#Somebody I Used to Know

[webs-of-words]

oh god, another best friend breakup

[celine-song]

Alison Brie and Danny Pudi in Somebody I Used to Know (2023) dir. Dave Franco

[mancandykings]

DANNY PUDI as Benny Somebody I Used to Know (2023)

[blanketstown]

i love them so much i’m tweaking out

via desertshinigami on instagram

[mikaeled]

Alison Brie in Somebody I Used to Know (2023)

[indiemovies]

DANNY PUDI Somebody I Used to Know, 2023

[shesnake]

Somebody I Used to Know (2022) dir. Dave Franco

[remilovesabed]

no i am not breathing

[tv-and-movie-quotes]

Somebody I Used to Know (2023)

[unseemingowl]

Okay, I know I reblogged this yesterday too, but I have now watched this like... 20 times, and I gotta talk about it some more, because I am so blown away by how well the dance and the camera works together in this.

Because, guys, so much dance is shot badly. In music videos you can have really crack dancing, but so often they gotta defer to the pop star at the center, they're the star of the show, not the choreography. And also there's the issue of money, it takes a lot of shots to shoot dance really well.

And live performance is so often shot, well, not great. Either, it seems, because it's not a professional videographer doing it, or because there's limitations in the venue or because they don't know what it's the most arresting part of shooting dance. I swear if I have to watch one more professionally shot ballet performance where they keep cutting away so I can't see the dancers' feet at crucial moments in the choreography I am gonna lose it.

This! This is shot so well, and very simply too! The shots shifts at an even pace, and don't use gimicky shots. The movements of the camera are fluid and calm to give us time and space to take in the natural speed and movements of the dancers.

And when I can't see the lower bodies of the dancers 20 seconds in, it's because I'm not supposed to. I am supposed to focus on the hands and the faces of the dancers.

And the camera also really makes the most of the very frenetic moments in the choreography. Like the section below would no doubt look impressive in a live performance as well, but here? The way the camera tracks along the stage, gives every one of the dancers their own beat to shine and fix our attention.

Same goes when the camera zooms out of the choreography. Like, dude here is really getting to show case those deceptively spaghetti like arm movements.

and then as soon as the legs does the first real sweep out, the camera is back out in wide, giving that leg sweep all the more swerve.

And can we talk about the wide shots from above! at how fucking in sync they are! How well the angle show cases that! The way we can actually fully see the rhombus shape they squeeze into!

I. AM. SALIVATING!

I have been ranting for long enough about this, but final detail I wanna add. Towards the end we have so many seamless cuts between the singular dancers starting the movement and the group shots finishing it.

Ugh. It turns me on it's so smooth.

Go watch it guys, and then lets hope that all dance videos meant to be filmed will be shot this wonderfully in the future.

[roman-roy-apologist]

danny pudi with a mustache danny pudi with a mustache danny pudi with a mustache danny pudi with a mustache danny pudi with a mustache

[flipjack]

Wow

[gavisconpm]

Alison Brie as Ally

Somebody I Used to Know (2023)

[qrfit]

[sadstarsz]

you still want me in your life but every time i see you, if sends shivers down my spine.

[all-hail-trash-prince]

will you ever finish "Now I'm Just Somebody That I Used To Know"?

it's one of my favs! no pressure ofc just wanted to ask!

/np /nm /i adore the fic!

Yes! I've been very distracted and not working on it much and I also got to the point in the story where suddenly everything I've written up to this point seems bad to me :') but I'm still adding stuff very slowly, and I'd say the next chapter's maybe a little over halfway written? I'd really like to get a good chunk of the epilogue out of the way too before posting so I don't accidentally disappear for like two years again 😅