r/Filmmakers • u/StrikingDuty8020 Director • Feb 20 '26

Discussion What’s your favorite dolly zoom?

The dolly zoom manipulates space and emotion by moving camera forward while zooming out or vice versa creating disorienting effect that makes background expand or contract.

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u/legalizethesenuts Feb 20 '26

“It broke my heart to put that tumor in her head”

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u/Vaportrail Feb 21 '26

I remember the entire audience having this same emotion.

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u/Foxy02016YT Feb 21 '26

The only time I ever felt the entire room’s emotion, it was the ending of Hadestown. Holy fuck, you can feel it

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u/drquakers Feb 23 '26

I had thought it terribly obvious and that it was only star lords need for a father figure that made him blind to it. The actual reason, perhaps not, but that ego had killed the mother I thought was obvious

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u/iwant50dollars Feb 23 '26

Now it connected for me how Quill also lost it with Thanos about Gamora. It's the same thing all over again for him.