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perrohunter

What lens do you think they used on the movie shot to cause the background to seem so close?


jkohlc

Probably a 85mm or 135mm


IRollmyRs

Yup. I wasn't sure of the range, but definitely more than 55. Telephoto lens far from the subject is the answer.


TheStreisandEffect

From what I understand, it has more to do with the distance + focus than the specific lens. Basically, if you want far objects to appear closer to the subject, you put more distance between you and the subject, and zoom in. It’s how people get those “giant moon” photos, but I’m sure someone with more knowledge could expound.


InfiniteNameOptions

Your understating isn’t far off, but their question was spot on. Focal length is the first consideration, and since movies largely shoot on primes – lenses that have a fixed focal length, they’d be choosing the lens rather than zooming.


Kemaneo

So yes… what you’re describing is focal length.


chinpokomon

It's aperture, depth of field, and distance. Consider an average photo as your starting point with every dial and control set to something in the middle. Align the subject of the photo in the center of the frame. Walk towards or away from an object until it is in focus and then turn up or down the lights until the subject of the photo looks average. Besides being the most boring photo ever, it makes the rest easier to understand. Being a friend with you and have them walk away from the camera. Looking through the camera, guide them left or right so that they continue to walk along the edge of the frame. Every few paces have them plant a flag of one color. And do the same on the other side of the frame. Perhaps unsurprisingly you will see that they've outlined a big V on the ground. Now take the camera and step backwards a short distance. If you do the same thing, your friend will have traced out another V. This time the lines which make up the sides will be parallel with the first V and the subject of the photo will be smaller. From this new position, zoom in on the subject until it is the same size it was before. Again have your friend plant flags. What you will find is that the arms of this new V will be closer together for a further distance. About the time that your friend is the same distance away as the subject, the arms of that V will cross the arms of the first V. Technically it isn't a straight line across, it isn't even an arc of a circle, the plane which is intersecting and creating this line is a giant sphere with the camera at its center, but at a significant enough distance that curvature is pretty flat and so it is easily approximated by a flat plane, and because it is close to perpendicular to the ground, it is effectively a line. The other thing you will notice is that at this distance the image has gotten dimmer. Open the aperture to let more light in until the brightness is the same as before. Reset all the dials and position back to the starting point and repeat this process again having walked towards the subject. It might be obvious, but you can't walk forward as far as you could walk backwards. The perceived size of the subject will get bigger quickly, so you don't need to walk far. The arms of this V will spread out very widely and they will intersect the first V not as far away as the V created by stepping backwards. The reason it doesn't cross at exactly the same point is that curvature. Now because you are closer to the subject that sphere is smaller and the curvature is more apparent. You will also have to close the aperture to make things not quite as bright. So taking all of this into consideration, you can track a dolly shot so that the zoom keeps the subject of a shot the same size, and if you adjust the aperture while doing so, the depth of field can be changed. In hind sight I should have just linked to a video [like this](https://youtu.be/u5JBlwlnJX0) and been done with it. So why do you need to adjust the aperture? Remember that as you zoom in, you have less light in total reaching the camera. As you pull the shot you have to capture more light, so you open the aperture to increase the amount of light. Pushing the shot, you widen the field, and now you close the aperture to keep from blowing out the image with too much light. Lastly, because you didn't really ask, how does the lens factor into this. A bigger lens can have a smaller aperture because the bigger lens is collecting more light already. The aperture affects the focal depth. So there's a balance between distance, field of view, luminance, aperture, lens, and exposure. You can't change one without affecting the others. Longer distance with a zoom will narrow the field and make the background seem bigger. Like a bigger moon. A shot more closely taken will have a more expansive background. The lens in this case is helping adjust the amount of light to keep focus and exposure.


pourspeller

Yes, I'm sure you were like "Pull over! I KNOW this place!"


fusionsofwonder

"Sargeant, I can smell a battlefield."


Suspicious-Earth-648

Another great movie


bigmrt

Which one?


cluedo_fuckin_sucks

Patton


the_barroom_hero

duh-nuh-nuh duh-nuh-nuh duh-nuh-nuh duh-nuh-nuh da-nuh-nuh da-nuh-nuh da-nuh-nuh da-nuh-nuh


EntilZar

Damn you, I can still hear that trumpet theme


Roy4Pris

Yep. I bet there are giant 'tourist brown' signs in Italian and English saying 'Gladiator filming location, 500m on right'. I mean, shit, there was probably a queue to post this photo, just like that spot overlooking Machu Pichu etc. PS: am a NZer, and we have 'LOTR filming location' signs all over the place


AssHassle

If it makes any difference, Gladiator is one of my favourite movies and I remembered the scene as we were driving around as it looked eerily similar. I googled where it was filmed and it said Tuscany. There’s no signs here indicating where it is exactly so it was hard to spot the exact location but we got it in the end before the sun set.


pixybean

That is really kinda special


shadowredcap

Bro…. Did you ever consider that while you found yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun in your brow, to not be troubled? For you are in Elysium, and you are already dead!


cyanitblau

Haters gonna hate. Good for you, nice photo.


PutTangInAMall

I feel for you OP, one of my favorite movies was filmed in rural Yorkshire and I have 3 random abandoned barns and hilltop overlooks bookmarked on Google Maps for whenever I get over there. They're completely unmarked but I obsessively spent days researching filming locations and just pinpointing landmarks/matching trees like this to find them.


AugustHenceforth

If you're thinking of getting a place there don't bother. There's really nothing available.


DARYL_VAN_H0RNE

what about Del Boca Vista? Anything available?


apex32

[Del Visto Becco?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6jrwzYGUoA)


Waramp

RIP


Heyhaveyougotaminute

Wouldn’t it be fun to be an actor and get a 2,3,7th chance at everything


AlphaGoldFrog

Just cause you get extra chances doesn't mean you're not pissing off everyone else waiting on you to get it right tho.


DuaneDibbley

I was bummed to hear that Michael Richards (being a really focused and invested actor) was genuinely annoyed by Julia Dreyfus frequently breaking character. I get his side but all the outtakes make it seem like filming the show was an absolute riot


vapidusername

Yeah, but aside from the occasional rant by the other three, he had to keep the most energy up providing physical comedy and deliver the more difficult lines in just about every episode.


SoupBowl69

We’re moving in. LOCK, STOCK, AND BARREL!


a_seventh_knot

gonna be all over that shuffleboard court!


MatticusXII

I think you mean Del Boco Visto


closedhndsopnrms

Came here for Seinfeld. Did not disappoint.


Fuzzy-Function-3212

How'd you get yours?


Aqxea

Got lucky.


pandabear216

So you’re telling me there’s not one house to rent in all of Tuscany?


InfamousAvocado

And you don’t have a square to spare?


MaxHannibal

I'm sorry I can't spare a single square.


BergMT

I love how Jerry just can't let it go the whole episode.


NDRoughNeck

That's pretty much the plot line to most episodes.


MaxHannibal

I like the part where George overeacts.


house_tyrion

GEORGE IS GETTIN UPSET!


I_Miss_Lenny

Also if they all had cell phones, like half of the episodes would be resolved immediately lol


arthurmorgaine

people always say this as if most of the episode plots are based around inconvenient situations. but usually it's moreso about petty grievances and the characters getting themselves into questionable situations due to poor decision making.


RichWPX

The one with the maid for sure


Piff-Iz-Da-Answer

Because he's MY butler


caanthedalek

George is an expert at petty grievances and poor decision making


despalicious

People who haven’t seen the show


tommytraddles

The only example I can think of where that is true is the movie theatre episode.


philadelphia-collins

And the bubble boy episode when Jerry is supposed to follow George to the cabin


Waramp

He could’ve put Mulva’s name in his phone. But in general I agree with you.


tekina7

Also the mall parking episode where they get lost. Also maybe the Chinese restaurant waiting episode.


hectorduenas86

Oh, Maestro…


freshboytini

Bob Cobb


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papajim22

My favorite tenor, with those two other guys.


rexmons

#SERENITY NOW!


alfie1138

In this lifetime, but maybe another.


km_44

Nothing??? There's got to be something!


Ladorb

Not even for rent? Really?


EveFluff

The movie that kicked off the "hands in tall grass" shot in Hollywood


whooo_me

If you play any of the recent Assassin's Creed games, your avatar/character does the same thing any time your character walks in wheat fields or reeds or even tall flowers. Not going to lie, some times I just walk around in circles doing this. Until Walking in Wheatfields Simulator is released, it's my go-to thing.


SecondBestNameEver

Calm down Theresa May


Roy4Pris

Not enough people will get this most excellent reference


salchicha_mas_grande

Thatcher in the Rye


Dready-Womble

For our international friends, [the former primer minister of Britain] (https://youtu.be/SNQE4bzFkyU)


dlfinches

Thanks. I don’t know what’s worse: the question or the answer


mariegriffiths

Most British people have forgotten her.


whooo_me

You can’t handle this wildness.


hellcat_uk

So naughty!


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Fritzkreig

Yeah, I was pretty high one night, walking through a wheat field during a full moon, the hand thing was a no brainer!


fuqdisshite

if you all ever want to come to Northern Michigan and eat some mushrooms and play in a big wheat field you can. we have disc golf and a river too. sometimes even fireworks... laying in the long grass and watching the fireworks is awesome.


Fritzkreig

Dude, that sounds awesome! I have always wanted to get up to the UP for some trekking; your suggestion adds to my plans!(I did a camping trip in the mitten on the lake, about a year ago. There was some "Vikings" living in a hide structure we ran into out there.) Anyways my particular wheat field experience was on dextromethoraphan on a southern Indiana tree farm, so I am down. I tagged you and if I ever get up there I will DM you! Peace brother!


fuqdisshite

no worries, Homie. we are at the south end of Torch Lake. (see: The Sandbar Kid Rock songs about in that song) hope to see you soon.


360Logic

I always thought it was a nod to the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, who just so happened to be Maximus's father figure. The hand gesture of the statue has been the subject of some debate and is kind of a thing in certain circles of art history from what I understand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_Statue_of_Marcus_Aurelius?wprov=sfla1


Laerderol

As cinematic and touching as that scene is, I think it's funny cuz Maximus is just trying to die and see his family but he keeps getting interrupted


Jack_Spears

Come to think of it your absolutely right. I wonder if whoever is controlling me was like " wow look he does that thing from Gladiator when i make him walk through wheat fields!"


Blokin-Smunts

Ghost of Tsushima does this too


QuantifiedDigits

Ghost of Tsushima too. I love the relaxing nature elements of that game, from petting foxes to bathing in hot springs to writing haikus, just beautifully well done.


Baptiste_le

I just noticed this yesterday! Played Origins for the first time. Was wearing headphones, relaxing after a long and stressful day... just walking towards Alexandria. And suddenly my character touches the flowers. What an amazing moment.


servicestud

LindyBeige [ruined](https://youtu.be/5ds054OF7hY) this scene a little for me... It's still a cool scene.


AbarthCabrioDriver

I think Kevin Costner did it in Dances with Wolves before Gladiator.


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pericles123

shumani-tatonka-obwa-chi


unipine

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MlrlUv9UtBs


Tactical_Epunk

All fun and games until you cut your hands on the grass.


natethomas

Or the bugs eat the hell out of your feet, ankles, and calves.


HerbyHoover

The scene immediately jumps to mind when walking thru tall grass, and I can't help but reenact it.


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[Thin Red Line](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKl5_OxKBn8) did it two years before. And did it better for my money


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Dances with wolves, 1990.


Sleepy_McSleepyhead

Amazing how the trees haven't grown taller.


regalfronde

Crazy that they are still there after 2000 years!


SwordoftheMourn

From you, 2000 years ago.


yakahmad

to you, 2000 years in the future


Electrical-Number934

#To both of you from 2022


spider_84

There's always one that takes it too far.


taichi22

Titanfolk haunts me


hell_jumper9

Maximus, what a man you are


Nullcast

Isn't this a scene from when Maximus is dead? Are we in Elysium?


randomCAguy

Whoa major spoilers there buddy


Laerderol

Lol they've had 20 years


JollyGreenGiraffe

Wait until you find out trees have height caps!


DrEmilioLazardo

Imagine if they didn't. You'd be able to climb a sequoia until you were in orbit. Trees would be organic space elevators.


thisisprobablytrue

Are you not entertained?


TempleOfDoomfist

They’re a little lazy, tbh


ratinthecellar

and bad posture


carlthefrog

Bad pasture


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They are late bloomers, ok?


Pain--In--The--Brain

You joke, but if there's one thing I can say about Italians it's that they don't want their trees or bushes growing beyond a certain size. Have you ever seen those italianate McMansions (and McMudShacks) in NY or NJ?


BigL90

*If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium, and you're already dead!*


The_Knight_Is_Dark

*What we do in life, echoes in eternity.*


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*Roma Victor*


ustaxattorney

*hearty laughter* "Good one, commander!"


ForensicCyclist

Interesting fact, the dwarf gene in wheat hadn't been bred into the variety yet so Maximus would have actually had wheat up to his shoulders walking through that field.


missuseme

Also the track is wrong, it wouldn't have been two dirt tracks with grass in the middle, the middle is where the horse would have gone so would wear down the grass just as much.


Megaskiboy

I always think this when I see movies with two tracks like that. That's the kind of roads cars make by driving up and down not a horse.


sevenstaves

This guy wagons!


Ser_Salty

It also wouldn't have been one massive field, but several smaller ones, segregated by stone walls and fences


thewildbeej

I just want to know who the fuck is driving through the countryside and is like wait I have photographic memory for 22 year old movies.


meridius55

I'm pretty sure he googled the location and went there specifically to take this picture


thewildbeej

Yeah, I know but his title implies he just tripped over it like a happy accident.


thisrockismyboone

You think people would just go on to the internet and lie?


gurmzisoff

It makes for a better story, so more people will like it and upvote.


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![gif](giphy|6nWhy3ulBL7GSCvKw6)


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I was confused about the low resolution on a post in 2022 as well. I think someone on the internet might not be telling the truth.


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I’m sure he glanced over, past the supermodel in his passenger seat, and saw the trees in the distance. He pulled over and promptly channeled the spirit of Maximus while the supermodel took the photo. Later that night, they flew to Paris and made love on top of the Eiffel Tower.


rmeechan

Even this [one](https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/8fm0zd/i_found_a_real_place_from_the_famous_scene_of_my/) from 4 years ago isn’t dogshit


audiblesugar

But why would someone go on the Internet and stretch the truth a bit?


Adamantli

Eh he doesn’t say how he found it. I took it as purposeful from the get go.


DeadSwaggerStorage

Maybe he is Bob Ross….no mistakes, just a happy accident.


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I dunno, to me the title says he was hunting it down and found it.


Kummakivi

Still takes a fair bit of effort to find out where it is, go there and take a picture from the exact same spot. Let him have it I say.


Svenskensmat

I’m pretty sure it’s not even OP in the picture.


Sfwaccount88888888

We were on a wine tour and they stopped and showed us this. Might have been the same thing. We had no idea that it was a part of it


nuwan32

Holy **** Gladiator is 22 years old now? I feel old


JennyJiggles

22 years old and still holds up! Such a great movie.


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The ending and credits [music](https://youtu.be/ijDcHT9Zl8U) are still some of the best I've ever heard.


LaBlueGuy

Went to watch the trailer for nostalgic reasons and saw [this.](https://youtu.be/mv-cj6mBkPk) I was not disappointed.


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theguyfromgermany

I would be butthurt too, as it is a terrific movie.


omgfuckingrelax

you can say shit on the internet now i checked


cgdv85

This scene is iconic!


zuppaiaia

My brother is an NCC, which here in Italy means you rent a car with a driver, and he works mostly with foreign tourists, especially takes them on wine tours. He knows exactly the spot, and sometimes he has to pass through a road close to it, so he mentions it because some people like the trivia and may want to stop and take a picture. It's not the only trivia he likes to throw around when he notices that his clients like to have a chat. Sometimes trips take all day, and people get more and more tipsy and chatty. I did the same job fort a few years and chatting with customers was the best part. *The worst part was getting lost because my sense of direction is basically null and when you get inside towns with large walls the GPS fucks off. I'm talking to you, Siena*


RaindropBebop

I don't know. This scene was one of the most emotionally salient scenes in the movie (for me). If I was walking along the road to that point I would've immediately recognized it.


the_colonelclink

Things like this can happen. I was in New Zealand a little while back, and it was only in discussions with locals etc that you found out the bridge you just passed down the rode or some river, or hill was in the movie.


OrangeCityDutch

Yep, I was in Iceland recently and I knew they filmed a bunch of stuff there, but not where or anything, and there were numerous times we happened to recognize locations from films. Turns out the same weird and beautiful places that make for great film backdrops also make for great sight seeing. Go figure, it’s pretty likely actually.


MarkaSpada

father to a murdered son


Foe117

Husband to a murdered wife


layers_of_grey

and i will have my vengeance


ibswimmin

In this life or the next.


razzoria

Aaaand cut! Guys I need more emotion to this.


The_Knight_Is_Dark

Commodus: *Visible confusion* *


Dietcherrysprite

You knew Marcus Aurelius?


layers_of_grey

i did not say i knew him! i said he touched me on the shoulder once!


steveborg

Cue Lisa Gerrard


ChimpskyBRC

AaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaahhhhh


fusionsofwonder

Your text sounds more like the Halo monk chant.


CaucusInferredBulk

That sounds like "immigrant song" to me


Chairboy

Jesus now it’s stuck in my head I had plans for tonight that didn’t involve dealing with that song in my head


tehmeat

Anol shalom


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This was such a beautiful scene


thesequimkid

If remember correctly this one comes at the end, so it’s remorseful. He’s finally achieved his vengeance and is moving on to the afterlife.


NumbersChef248910

If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium and you are already dead


thesequimkid

Elysium is too good for me. I'd probably end up in Tartarus.


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This 'journey' shows up in flashbacks & dream sequences throughout the movie.


SucculentsCA

And the song in this scene! Just the other night one of the Olympic female skaters performed to this song.


ruckus_440

I saw that. It was a bit of a remix, so I didn't recognize the tune immediately. The soundtrack from the battle scenes would make a pretty bad ass song to skate to as well.


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reptilepaul93

Now you are free. Now we are both free. I will see you again. But not yet. Not yet..


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AshySlashy902

https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/8fm0zd/i_found_a_real_place_from_the_famous_scene_of_my/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share Could have been this. Obviously op isn't the first person to find this spot. But neither is someone holding up the leaning tower of Pisa. Still a cool shot though.


AshySlashy902

OP to reddit: "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!?"


eterevsky

Interestingly enough, there's a [whole video](https://youtu.be/5ds054OF7hY) explaining everything that's wrong with this particular shot from historical perspective.


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SlumOfScottsdale

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.


Tackit286

We shall have peace... We shall have peace, when you answer for the burning of the Westfold, and the children that lie dead there! We shall have peace, when the lives of the soldiers, whose bodies were hewn even as they died against the gates of the Hornberg, are avenged! When you hang from a gibbit for the sport of your own crows... We shall have peace.


jwm3

I'm embarassed that my very first thought was "no way it still looks the same as it did in Roman times."


Shikizion

Well, it is probably not far off to be honest, the country side of tuscany didn't change much, probably a few more or less houses dependingnof the exact place, but some places might have retained the overall feel


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OblivionGuardsman

Looks like one of the trees on the left died. No one made a movie for that tree.


LordElfa

I hope you kept an eye out for Tuscan Raiders.


AnalogFeelGood

Maximus! Maximus! Maximus!


blucrabunikorn

MAXIMUS, MAXIMUS THE MERCIFUL!


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MaduckBR

My favorite movie! Amazing !


Coolio_g

Strength and Honor


Dfl321

Go to them.


IntoAComa

If anyone is interested, you don’t need to “find it” by accident or anything: [link](https://www.sceen-it.com/sceen/325/Gladiator/Field)


VanGarrett

You've found Elysium. You're a fool to leave.


Professional_One1202

What is OC?


badskinjob

In this case it means ‘others content’


p1mplem0usse

Orignal Content = Not Stolen, Not A Repost


JobberTrev

But this is Reddit....


shrek_2_on_blue-ray

Not this.


Rootofallevil1927

This is mad I commented on a sub earlier about this scene, it was a video of a windy wheat field in bologna