rewatched Zodiac and remembered that Tony Stark and Bruce Banner tried to solve a murder mystery once upon a time.
finally got around to watching The Social Network the other day. it’s an excellent film and one that, for me, lived up to the hype. i also thought it interesting how facebook/Mark Zuckerberg has a film about it/him even though the subject matter has such a future ahead of it—i guess it’s a fitting parallel to the almost instant, record-it-as-it-happens nature of facebook.
one part really visually stood out for me (and i’m sure a lot of other people), and it’s the tilt shift Henley Regatta sequence (see above video). so, i did a little digging and discovered that David Fincher used the effect as a result of location limitations:
We could only shoot 3 races at the Henley Royal Regatta; We had to shoot 4 days of boat inserts in Eton. The only way to make the date for release was to make the backgrounds as soft as humanly possible. I decided it might be more “subjective” if the world around the races fell away in focus, leaving the rowers to move into and out of planes of focus to accentuate their piston-like effort.
i’m a firm believer that more often than not, having budgetary/location constraints will promote creativity, and it happens even when you’re David Fincher making a studio movie. also, check out the bad boy Fincher (all dressed up) shot the film on (yes, the RED—but holy fuck, look at that lens!): 
you’ve got some big shoes to fill, girl.
