Boom boom in the zoom zoom room.

November 9, 2010 8:32 PM

I love it when, in a film, there's a quick optical zoom on a frozen frame -- The 400 Blows, The Rules of Attraction, Beck's Devil's Haircut video. Have more, preferably with Youtube links?

(That being said, my love of the effect doesn't in any way extend to Ken Burns-style video effects, and those referencing slow video zooms on photographs will get a Metafilter raspberry. Or worse.)

posted by eschatfische to Media & Arts (8 answers total)

let's get this one out of the way right away.
posted by seawallrunner at 9:02 PM on November 9, 2010 [4 favorites]

Best answer: Three Days of the Condor's ending uses the device to brilliant effect.
posted by incessant at 9:12 PM on November 9, 2010

Does it always have to be on a freeze frame? If not, here's several crash zooms in just 60 seconds. Otherwise, just enjoy the music.
posted by Lazlo at 11:18 PM on November 9, 2010

No link but Tarantino did this to hilarious effect in Kill Bill in the martial arts training sequence.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 7:13 AM on November 10, 2010

It's not in the middle of the action like your examples, but I kind of love the title sequence for The Tomorrow People and for Fahrenheit 451.
posted by RobotHero at 8:31 AM on November 10, 2010

I feel like the climax of every Twilight Zone episode for a few seasons used that technique as the "And here's the twist ending!"
posted by Gucky at 9:20 AM on November 10, 2010

More Redford for you. The last shot in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid uses a slightly less dramatic version.
posted by cazoo at 9:38 AM on November 10, 2010

Zoom till you puke.
posted by orme at 10:28 AM on November 10, 2010