After its big opening weekend, Sinners feels like the movie everyone is talking about. Ryan Coogler's vampire epic has a controversial ending, fun villain design, and this amazing juke joint scene that everyone in the lobby of my theater was talking about. And Entertainment Weekly did a deep dive into that scene, which was very informative. Today, I wanted to dig into this scene and talk about how they accomplished it. There will be slight spoilers for the movie to follow, so if you haven't seen it, rush to the theater and then come back here. Let's dive in. - YouTube www.youtube.com That Juke Joint Dance Scene from 'Sinners'During the scene in question, we have the character of Sammie playing the guitar for everyone in the juke. His song blues is able to transcend space and time, connecting the past and the present. Suddenly, there are people from many different generations dancing and singing, reflecting rock and roll, rap, geisha, DJs, and tribal music. It's a really fun and unique part of the story, and what made this movie stand out to me. In order to shoot this sequence, they used IMAX cameras. You would never be able to shoot this in one take, even though it sort of looks like it in the movie. Coogler says, "They can only film for about a minute and a half — maybe it's a minute and 45 — because they rip through film at such a speed that you can only shoot...
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