How Different Directors Use Slow Motion in Their Movies

Sometimes slow motion is used to enhance legal action shot . Other times it ’s done to convey love between two characters . There are even time when it ’s used to replicate using drugs . Or show off a superpower . Or show apprehension . Or capture someone ’s last moment . Point is , slow movement is used a mint in film , for many different reasons . Here ’s a breakdown showing how certain directors use slow gesture in their movies .

Martin Scorsese like to utilize it to put the audience in the header of his characters ; we ’re able-bodied to see what a special character sees because it ’s focused in slow motion . Wong Kar - wai uses tiresome motion in synergism with medicine , and also habituate it to heighten emotion like the yearning for passion . Quentin Tarantino utilize wearisome movement to make his characters seem cool — but also to make you marvel which characters are going to survive the mess that is certain to come .

There are many more interesting looks at the art of slow motion in movie in the video essay byJulian Palmer , below .