The car sequence is also an amazing long take, too.
It almost didn't happen because the director, Alfonso Cuaron, said "cut" but nobody heard him, so they carried on:
"We had 12 days to do the car attack scene. 10 days into it, we they were still staging it. After 12 days, we were going to lose the location. Day 11 came and there were accidents, and we could only do 2 takes a day. On the last day, we knew we were losing location next day. In the morning it was great, but an operator fell down so we only had only one more shot. We were shooting the last take, everything goes great, but then by accident the blood spills onto the lens. I yelled cut, but there was an explosion and nobody heard me so they kept shooting. Then, later, I realized that the blood splash was the miracle [in that scene]."
Here's an article, breaking down that shot:
Here's a video about how the background matters so much in CoM:
It almost didn't happen because the director, Alfonso Cuaron, said "cut" but nobody heard him, so they carried on:
"We had 12 days to do the car attack scene. 10 days into it, we they were still staging it. After 12 days, we were going to lose the location. Day 11 came and there were accidents, and we could only do 2 takes a day. On the last day, we knew we were losing location next day. In the morning it was great, but an operator fell down so we only had only one more shot. We were shooting the last take, everything goes great, but then by accident the blood spills onto the lens. I yelled cut, but there was an explosion and nobody heard me so they kept shooting. Then, later, I realized that the blood splash was the miracle [in that scene]."
Here's an article, breaking down that shot:
Here's a video about how the background matters so much in CoM:
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