{"id":49793,"date":"2016-04-20T20:09:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49793"},"modified":"2016-04-20T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:09:08","slug":"how-to-draw-a-circle-in-a-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49793","title":{"rendered":"How to draw a circle in a line"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — Robert Redford and Brad Pitt on a Berlin rooftop ]
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\nhow do you draw a circle in an entirely linear medium?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The movie is Spy Game<\/a>, with Robert Redford<\/strong> and Brad Pitt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

To my mind, it’s a brilliant piece of film making: director Tony Scott<\/strong> chose a terrific location for Nathan Muir<\/strong> (Redford)’s debrief reaming of Tom Bishop<\/strong> (Pitt), in the course of which Muir very pointedly tells Bishop:<\/p>\n

Listen to this, because this is important. If you’d pulled a stunt there and got nabbed, I wouldn’t come after you. You go off the reservation, I will not come after you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s the heart of the movie, right there, in negative — because the whole movie is about Bishop going off reservation in China, pulling a stunt there, and getting nabbed by the Chinese, and Muir coming after Bishop and rescuing him, with great shenanigans and flashbacks along the way.<\/p>\n

Scott wants to draw a circle around that point, to drive it home — but this is a movie, a totally linear sequence frames, whether celluloid or digital, so how do you draw a circle in a linear medium?<\/p>\n

Scott shoots the scene atop a circular roof, and before, during and after the conversation between the two men, has the camera circle the building:<\/p>\n