The Assassination of Jesse James

This film is more like the Hateful Eight than the traditional westerns. I watched this review after and it sums up perfectly how long and slow it is just like The Hateful Eight. It's for this reason a lot of my shot's are slower than normal, because it's not an action-y western.

The great thing about this film is that the shot composition is brilliant. There's never a "flat" shot, you're either looking down or up at character and if it's straight on the lighting adds to the shot so it looks a bit more magical. Like they said in the film it is quite arty, but it could have been edited down to be a lot shorter. What has influenced my project is mainly the close up shots of the characters, as well as the John Wayne films, looking down or up at characters is really important and if it flat on I'm going to make sure the colouring adds depth to it.

I don't think I'd recommend this film because even though Brad Pitt and Casey Afleck do some incredible acting I just didn't feel any appeal towards their characters and I think that's what the movie lacked, and made it seem longer than it actually is, there's a load of better of films out there rather than watching this.