Fincher lifted that overhead bridge shot from Richard Pryor movie lol

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Binkconn — 10 years ago(February 24, 2016 03:08 AM)

I was up watching the 1985 comedy Brewster's Millions, and during the opening credits there's an overhead panning shot of cars crossing the Verrazano bridge - same exact shot Fincher uses when Gyllenhaal is driving to visit the archives late in the film. Never saw a similar shot anywhere else; either Fincher or his DP must have remembered it from the Pryor movie. Funny.

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samhill08642 — 9 years ago(April 22, 2016 06:39 PM)

That's like saying Cameron lifted shots for Titanic from Jaws because they were both filmed on the ocean

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wrs6565 — 9 years ago(April 28, 2016 11:15 AM)

To be a bit of an arse on my part, Cameron DID lift shots from "A Night To Remember" (1958) which some consider a better Titanic movie

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nimstic — 9 years ago(May 09, 2016 04:06 AM)

But what Blinkconn described was an all-too-common shot to show the city.
In a 3 hour film, this 'lifted scene' is too insignificant to even discuss about.

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Kotter7579 — 9 years ago(December 06, 2016 12:30 PM)

Oh no, whatever shall we dooooo?
Breaking: gremlins 2 uses shots from Superman during its intro. Dante even admits this.
So where do you go from here?
That would make 3 Christmas' I've saved, vs. 8 that I've ruined; two were kind of a draw..