Anatomy of IN a Scene

Because, for whatever reason (cough The Film Experience's new holiday banner cough), I've got Jarhead on the brain today, and also no gratuitous Jake is ever a bad thing, here are some fond reminisces of one of The Finest Scenes Captured On Celluloid. Seriously, it's basically knocked the Odessa Steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin into the dumpster. If I ever taught a film class it would be on whatever the fuck cinematic technique bullshit I could crow on about that Sam Mendes might've used - the allegorical or political ramifications of the Santa Hat could also work - as an excuse to watch this scene over and over again; that much is for certain. Man, I'd be the Bestest Prof Ever.

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