Chambers wrote:
> Also, the recent version of "Pride and Prejudice" (the one with Keira 
> Knightley) had some rather long shots in it, with the camera moving 
> through various rooms and people / events / conversations coming into 
> and out of focus in it.  In one scene in particular, I was like "That's 
> cool, moving the camera that way... Huh, they haven't cut yet... Wow, 
> this is still the same take!"  It's the kind of thing you can imagine 
> getting all the way to the end, and someone making a dumb mistake and 
> ruining the whole shot, but nobody did.  I was very impressed by that :)

I've seen a couple of movies which take the long shot to its extreme and 
film the entire movie in essentially one uninterrupted shot.  There's 
Rope by Hitchcock and a more recent film Russian Ark.  The former is a 
pretty good suspense film, and the latter, while a bit dull, has 
absolutely stunning camera work.  I'd take a look if you're interested 
in that sort of thing.  Apparently Russian Ark also took only two takes 
to get right, which is very impressive for a movie which is over an hour 
and a half long.

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