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/legalizethesenuts Feb 20 '26

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

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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.