Its easy to understand why.
For the car chase, the crew had the location for that shot for12 days.
Days of preparation and timing of specific movements were spent on getting both of these elaborate shots.
But the result is much more than a showiness of technical proficiency.
The tension is constant.
There are 11 shots in the film.
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What makes this shot legendary however is the staging done thats by Godard.
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Cars, humans and animals stretch down a roadway for a slow camera crawl.
It begins very quaint, with picnics on the side of the road.
And though that may be the case, it gets much darker the longerRaoul Coutards camera tracks.
Eventually we start seeing blood and dead bodies strewn about.
People slow down at a car wreck to see what happened.
Were just along for the ride.
Begging you to want more, its at that exact moment that PTA cuts.
The feeling that it yields is something close to wonder.
The commonality between all the groups is that theyre relaxed and in no hurry.
