The Great Shot Gordo Award for Most Cinematic Shot
Mother in doorway; men crossing field; heads over hill; men on steps; helmet death; handheld combat; crossing tank; underwater landing
Flex pick · Chris Ryan
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- The mother framed in the doorway as the car approaches, followed by her collapse onto the porch, is a selected cinematic image.
- The men walking across the field and heads appearing over the hill are offered as other striking compositions.
- The wide shot of the men on the steps listening to the record player, apart from Hanks and Damon, is praised as poster-like.
- A soldier surviving a shot that hits his helmet, removing it, and then being shot in the head is singled out as a brutal visual moment.
- The intricate handheld battle shots are praised for coordinating several moving actions within one shot.
- The tank crossing the opening in the final battle visually shows that the planned defense must change without explanatory dialogue.
- The underwater imagery during the landing is praised, including the realization that soldiers can be shot underwater.