Sunday, June 02, 2024

Details, Details

This is the best I can do. It’s off my phone. Moze has just completed the change scam with the matronly store cashier. He grabs Addie to make a quick getaway before they're discovered.


I have circled the reflection in the glass display cases behind the cash register. They capture the getaway that is not captured by the direct camera. Stop action, as in these stills do not convey the quickened pace of the two as they exit the store and round the corner and get into their car before the old woman realizes she has been scammed. You can watch the scene in action here, it starts at 23:55.
 

Closeup, Moze leaving, Addie in tow, from above:




Addie, being pulled, making her getaway.

                                                    

 Different frame.



 
You hear the tires squeal as the car pulls off.

 The production crew was masterful in conveying speed through sound. In the adorable scene much later where the fall of Trixie Delight is set in motion, Addie plays the dutiful girl, coming down unhurried smoothing her hair, in a cute dress, into the coffee shop where Moze is eating waffles. She sits down chats inanely and briefly and then announces, "Well, I think I'll go up and polish my shoes" 🙄 So out of character, that Moze briefly looks after her quizzically as she departs at an unhurried, girlish pace. When she rounds the corner to rendezvous with Imogene her little feet hit the stairs with a hurried tap-tap-tap of her shoes on the stairs as she rushes up once she is out of Moze's sight. It is sublime, subtle filmmaking.