The supposed dumpling of the film “Don’t Look Up” is completely voluntary, explains its director | Slate.fr – Slate.fr

Reading time: 2 min – Spotted on The Independent, The Hollywood Reporter

“Oopsy.” This is the pithy comment posted by user Ben Kohler, on a TikTok video showing a shot of Don’t look up – Cosmic Denial in which he thought he had detected a gross error. Available from December 24 on Netflix, the film directed by Adam McKay (creator with Will Ferrell of the character of Ron burgundy, and director of Vice, with Christian Bale as Dick Cheney) features two astronomers (Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio) who try to make the earth’s population understand that a comet is about to destroy the planet. And which mainly meet with skepticism and distressing reactions.

After an hour and twenty-eight (the film lasts 138 minutes in all), tells The Independent, the lynx’s eye of Ben Kohler detected a composition of plan for the less strange. It’s very stealthy, especially since this moment is filmed like a handheld camera with a tight editing, but he managed to see in the background several technicians of the film masked and dressed in black.

Obviously, this seems to be a blunder: when shooting the same scene with several cameras at the same time, you must either choose angles so as not to see the other technical teams, or make them disappear digitally during post-production.

Strange commemoration

But Adam McKay has another version. Shortly after the first tweets and articles were published on the subject, the director responded by saying that there was no mistake and that it was all completely voluntary.

“Well seen, can we read in his tweet. We left this little piece of team in order to commemorate the strange experience of this shoot. ” And the filmmaker to evoke a shooting made even more complex by the constraints related to Covid-19, which would have made him want to sign a fleeting nod to those who worked tirelessly to ensure that the film see the light of day.

There are two things: either it is the most strangely subliminal commemoration in the history of cinema, or Adam McKay does not care about us, preferring to tell a bit of anything rather than assume a mistake. quite ridiculous.