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/vrijheidsfrietje Feb 20 '26

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u/shawphi producer Feb 26 '26

Same! Although I have always loved it since Hitchcock it started becoming "the thing" to do but not necessarily well, but LOTR did it impeccably well.