Spoilers incoming because I gotta talk about a couple parts.
So someone on that team knows a ton and a half about lighting and camerawork oh my gosh the way I noticed how much seamless movement there was in the camera shots, like it was dancing along, very feature film musical.
The stylization was very charming, very caricature in places on extras and side characters like you'd see in older Disney work.
The foreshadowing with David having compassion on the lion that was trying to kill his sheep????? (Not to mention that gorgeous shot where we pan from Saul on one side of the waterfall in the mercy cave to David inches away on the other side in the scene proper.)
Someone on that team is also clearly a fan of Lord of the Rings because we got a big Cue The Sun army charge lol. AND CAN I TALK ABOUT DAVID GETTING STRUNG UP AS A CHRIST FIGURE AND HOW THE CLIMAX BLENDED THREE DIFFERENT SONGS FROM EARLIER IN THE FILM SEAMLESSLY????
I am wigging out this was such a cool and fun and lovely movie and oh I hope it does well, I hope it does very well because I want to see more from this creative team.
EDIT: I FORGOT TO MENTION THE WAY THEY STAGED THE DAVID VS GOLIATH BATTLE WITH GOLIATH GETTING HIS "SMITE ME ALMIGHTY SMITER!" BOAST IN WITH THE SLOW PAN UP TO THE SUN IN THE SKY AND HOLDING FOR A PREGNANT SECOND BEFORE THE SILHOUETTE OF DAVID'S SLINGSHOT CROSSES THE FRAME AND THEN LIKE TWO OR THREE QUICK SHOTS LATER HE LETS IT LOOSE AND SMACK STRAIGHT INTO HIS FOREHEAD WITHOUT ANY FURTHER FANFARE LIKE GOD LITERALLY SMOTE HIM. AMAZING. 10/10 NO NOTES.
