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snowhazed
Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
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Nov 21, 2018 - 09:41am PT
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I finally caught it last night, and while it is amazing to see the footage, the film really missed a lot of opportunity to be great.
By miring itself into the interaction with Sanni and then only briefly acknowledging the grandeur of the achievement before, and not at all after, there was almost no emotional payoff. Particularly if you aren't a climber. The people I saw it with were blown away by the act, but were left feeling hollowness and purposeless around it.
I think its an ok choice to let the climbing footage stand for itself as opposed to talking about the scale of the achievement and the quantum leap in possibility for humans, but if you make that choice- you need to sit with a lot more footage!!! I wanted the climb to have a lot more time and detail placed on it.
Please please please let there someday be a "climber edit" where we can have access to a lot more of the climb.
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snowhazed
Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
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Nov 21, 2018 - 12:17pm PT
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oh hell yes! thx for the link
climbers cut would be the jam
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Nov 21, 2018 - 05:15pm PT
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climbers cut would be the jam
That's really what we want!
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Bargainhunter
climber
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Nov 21, 2018 - 09:49pm PT
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Took my extended family to it tonight. Ages ranged from 5 to 80. They all loved it, as did I. I loved the decision to include the film crew as part of the documentary, and their own emotion and involvement. The footage was spectacular. Jimmy Chin and crew should be very proud! Great job!
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 22, 2018 - 06:31am PT
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Good video, HFCS. I'm all for the 4 hour climbers cut.
I thought Jimmy's frank discussion about the Peter Croft moment, after the failed first attempt, was most enlightening. Apparently it was stressful for all concerned and Jimmy was glad he didn't have to shoot it. His verite team got the job done and it turned out to be a great scene in the movie.
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 22, 2018 - 06:50am PT
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Good story and photo of the verite team in Alex's van...
(Jimmy)...credits Vasarhelyi for the emotional honesty of the film’s subjects:
“That was Chai,” he says in the RI interview. “This film really represents our two strengths. Both of us agree that neither one of us alone could have made this film. She was much more invested and interested in the character study and the cinema vérité part of the film.
“Vérité filmmaking for documentary filmmaking is the bar where you’re capturing the moment in real time. … [Y]ou have to sit and shoot endlessly. We shot 700 hours of footage. So what you’re seeing are these gems. When you know that Alex is going to try to solo El Cap [the next day] and Sanni [McCandless, his romantic partner] doesn’t …”No scenes were re-enacted.
Getting the candid moments, he says in RI, “comes from sitting with them. It’s a craft.” He further says he does not think he would have gotten the moments that she did.
https://rockandice.com/features/chai-vasarhelyi-on-the-making-of-free-solo-with-alex-honnold/
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 22, 2018 - 10:33am PT
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I liked it better each time I saw it. I want to go see it again (but my partner doesn't. We've seen it 3 times.)
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Bargainhunter
climber
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Nov 22, 2018 - 03:34pm PT
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A climber’s cut would be amazing! Do it Jimmy!!!!’
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Nov 25, 2018 - 08:08am PT
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Great film. The section where Alex buys a home are quite funny because Alex is so out of his element. I like how they walk past the $1800 stainless steel refrigerators in Home Despot and select the basic $400 white model. The obvious climber's choice
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 30, 2018 - 05:43am PT
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"Free Solo" wins 2018 Virginia Film Festival Documentary Feature Audience Award.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Nov 30, 2018 - 09:22am PT
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Didn’t find it on the Nat geo site, anyone know when this will be availible to buy?
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Rattlesnake Arch
Social climber
Home is where we park it
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 30, 2018 - 09:30am PT
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...anyone know when this will be availible to buy?
No idea, maybe this will tide you over till then...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
(Click "YouTube" to watch full-screen on YouTube)
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