#focus pull

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The Graduate - Rack Focus

Clip #2 for tutorial

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The Best Years of Our Lives. ( William Wyler, 1946)  A man in the foreground looks away from the unusual man (who has hooks instead of hands) playing the piano to stare at the man in the phone booth, who is calling the former’s daughter in order to end their relationship. This emphasizes the father’s point of view in the situation as well as denies the audience a view of the emotive phone-call, which is perhaps what they would rather  be watching.

 Compare the above scene with the focus-pulling scene in Tarantino’s The Hateful 8. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIMtgAQqSVE) We may prefer to observe the men as they drink the poisoned coffee, but we must focus on Domargue’s anxiousness and performance as she watches them. We notice how she is sometimes too distracted to play and sing. This shows us that this is her (only) opportunity to escape. The camera very cleverly mimics her point of view; the group of men only come into focus when Domargue looks at them.