I was checking out this cool bts image Dayna Grant posted on Twitter:
And that made me want to check out the scene in the movie again.
Here she is running along the right side of the rig (because after Furiosa yelled “fool” she dove from the left side to the right, to avoid the Rock Riders’ bullets). Note the sun shining on the right side of the rig, with the left side in shadow:
The next shot has a little bit of a continuity issue, since she’s passing the same set of wheels a second time, but it’s no big deal:
Incoming Rock Rider from the left (now the sunny side):
Dayna slides under the rig – but from the left side:
Rock Rider sliding in from the (now shady) left side:
…and catching Dayna!Furiosa’s legs, while we cut between two shots, the first of which has the sun on the left side of the rig, while the second, from a camera mounted under the rig, seems to show the sun back on the original right side:
I understand they made a decision early in the shoot not to worry too much about trying to maintain continuity with sun angles, which is fine.
But I’m fascinated by the decision to flop the fourth shot to show her sliding in from the left side of the rig rather than the right. Why did they do that? Were they trying to create a heightened sense of chaos/jeopardy by showing something that would subconsciously register as wrong while being too quick to consciously notice? I’ve read about Friedkin doing that with the wrong-way freeway chase in To Live and Die in L.A.; maybe it’s more of a thing than I realized?
It’s interesting! I mean the fact that Dayna’s right arm now has the prosthetic makes it clear that they *definitely* flopped the shot rather than blocked the stunt incorrectly and were stuck with non-matching footage. Good catch!
Adds to list of G Miller lift questions…
Haha. I was all comparing shadows and didn’t even notice her arm. I crack myself up sometimes.
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