Interesting Camera Movement

"Kill Bill" has got to be one of my favorite action movies of all time! I personally like volume 1 better than volume 2 but that's another story. I love the fact that it centers on a female heroine. That it is about vengeance and that there is good balance between storytelling and action. The scene that I chose to show interesting camera angle was the climax of the movie. When the main character, Black Mamba (a.k.a "The Bride") takes on O-Ren Ishii's army of guard dogs known as the Crazy 88. The camera starts out at a low angle and follows the weapon of one of the henchman until we see his face. This gives us a good perspective of the size of the weapon. The camera then switches to a medium shot. Then, into a crane shot where the camera slowly moves upward so the audience can have the perspective that the aerial shot gives us. The view from the aerial shot along with the music builds up the suspense because from that angle we can see that she is completely surrounded and the henchman start closing in on her (oooo, scary 😱). The camera then goes back to show the heroine's sword as she raises from the floor and brings it up to her face. I love that the camera then moves to a closeup of the sword to show the henchmen's reflections. The cameraman then uses a combination panning, close -up on the heroine's face, panning, back shot, panning, close - up shot again, jumps back to an aerial shot and slowly moves the camera back down to focus in on the heroine before she springs into action. It is such a great build up to the fight and I do have to say that the use of diegetic sound of the sword definitely gives it a little something extra. Definitely a great scene 😊.