Avengers: Mountaintop Battle

 

The scene I’ll be discussing is the mountain top battle from the Avengers. The scene technically starts when Thor makes his grand entrance in the film, and takes Loki out of the jet and has a friendly chat with him. The sequence with Thor and Loki chatting it up is really instance and engaging at least for me. There seems to be real tension there and it is on display. Cut Iron Man tackling Thor to the ground where the scene really begins. After some bickering between the two the fighting begins. The cuts vary during this sequence some fairly quickly and others drag just a little longer but not by much. It’s a fast pace sequence with the two Hero’s battling it out, and you get a sense of their powers. The camera angles very a lot from some being a low/high angels, there’s shot reverse shots, and also several shots of varying shots some being extreme close ups others and others with range from medium to long shots. Then when Captain America comes in and telling him to put the Hammer down you get that witty humor from Iron Man saying Thor loves his hammer. Then Thor hits Iron Man with and looks at Cap and says you want me to put the Hammer down then he jumps and we get an extreme close-up of Thor’s hammer hitting Caps shield with a seismic blast the just levels the area around them. Then there’s this long shot of all three Hero’s in frame at once for the first time as the camera slowly pans backwards and Cap says are we done here. The first time I say this scene was the moment for me when I couldn’t believe I was actually watching this happen. The inner nerd inside me loses it every time that scene happens. It’s definitely my favorite sequence throughout the film, and quite possibly the most cinematic part of the film other than the 360 pan of all the Avengers and the long take of the Avengers fighting in Manhattan.

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