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5.210 … she moves to the opposite end of the room …

5.211 … and sits at a small table facing him.

5.215 The opening shot of
Touch of Evil
begins with a close-up of a hand setting the timer of a bomb.

5.216 The camera tracks immediately right to follow first the shadow …

5.217 … and then the figure of an unknown assassin planting the bomb in a car.

5.218 The camera then cranes up to a high angle as the assassin flees and the victims arrive and set out in the car.

5.219 As the camera rounds the corner, it rejoins the car and tracks back to follow it.

5.220 The car passes Vargas and his wife, Susan, and the camera starts to follow them, losing the car and tracking diagonally backward with the couple through the crowd.

5.221 The camera tracks backward until both the occupants of the car and Susan and Vargas meet again …

5.222 … and a brief scene with the border guard ensues.

5.223 After tracking left with the car, the camera again encounters Susan and Vargas and tracks forward toward them …

5.224 … bringing them into medium shot as they begin to kiss.

“I kept wondering, ‘Can people talk this much in a feature film and anybody care?’ And so I had to go through every moment in those dialogue scenes and look for the little events I would treat as large events. Like the ringing of a phone or the blinds being opened…. I had to treat those as fairly major events and have the moves of the camera be motivated by them, so that it would be organic to the scene yet still visually interesting.”

— John PatrickShanley, writer and director,
Doubt