It's a pretty simple question. Luc Godard disapproved of long takes and close ups for being intrusive when dealing with historical subject matter. Even without prescribing specific standards about how a film should be made and what it should be about, there's still a question of immersion and how obsessive praise over tracking shots have pretty much ruined them.
Alejandro Inarritu's Birdman is the perfect example, and its subtitle The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance is one that I've always posited to comment specifically on its use of a single long take. If you're unaware of the elaborate nature of the shot, you can enjoy the film for its content instead of its artifice. It's kind of strange actually that editing is so ingrained into the audience's perception of film that unedited content is distracting in that way. That begs the question as to whether this discussion is even possible from an objective standpoint if we can assume that its subject to specific eras of moviegoers.
So I pass the question onto you, do tracking shots fail when we notice them?
Orson Welles' legendary opening shot from Touch of Evil.
Paul Thomas Anderson speaking on Max Ophuls, a French director renowned for his tracking shots.
True Detective's tracking shot from season 1 which caused quite a stir, and even drew a response from Game of Thrones which also proceeded to execute a long, elaborate shot.
Alejandro Inarritu's Birdman is the perfect example, and its subtitle The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance is one that I've always posited to comment specifically on its use of a single long take. If you're unaware of the elaborate nature of the shot, you can enjoy the film for its content instead of its artifice. It's kind of strange actually that editing is so ingrained into the audience's perception of film that unedited content is distracting in that way. That begs the question as to whether this discussion is even possible from an objective standpoint if we can assume that its subject to specific eras of moviegoers.
So I pass the question onto you, do tracking shots fail when we notice them?
Orson Welles' legendary opening shot from Touch of Evil.
Paul Thomas Anderson speaking on Max Ophuls, a French director renowned for his tracking shots.
True Detective's tracking shot from season 1 which caused quite a stir, and even drew a response from Game of Thrones which also proceeded to execute a long, elaborate shot.