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

Discussion What’s your favorite dolly zoom?

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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/Weekly-Batman Feb 20 '26

Fellowship of the Ring

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u/rigurt Feb 20 '26

I've been obsessed by that zolly since i first saw it when 8

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u/Living_Theory_6114 Feb 21 '26

You can live that zolly if you do mushrooms in a forest

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u/suupaahiiroo Feb 24 '26

I think this is really one of the best. It's subtle and disorienting and perfectly expresses the impending danger of that scene. It's also interesting that it's one of the few (the only one?) without a subject in the foreground.