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Post #1392678

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ZkinandBonez
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The Mandalorian - a general discussion thread - * SPOILERS *
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Date created
11-Dec-2020, 3:32 PM

Hal 9000 said:

ZkinandBonez said:

HelloGreedo pointed out something fascinating in his review of Chapter 15; https://youtu.be/Z2j2A_an09w?t=313
Mayfeld and all the stormtroopers salute with their left hand instead of the right. Now that could of course just have been the fictionalized SW version of it, but he also points out that the stormtrooper armor is mirrored, which you can tell from looking at the mismatched knee-pads/joints on the costumes. So for whatever reason they’ve mirrored several shots in the episode. Maybe the sense of direction was broken at some point, i.e. Cara and Fennec looked left while standing on the mountain ridge while Mayfeld & Din drove right, thereby causing some disorientation for the viewer or something like that.

Y’know… I kinda like the old school feel of doing stuff like mirroring shots like that. It’s part of moviemaking and need not be feared.

Yeah, sure. Even talented filmmakers like Famuyiwa makes small mistakes every now and then and most viewers wouldn’t have noticed (or really cared) that a few stormtroopers saluted with the “wrong” arm.

I am curious however about why they flipped a few shot shots. Seeing the episode again its clear that it’s just a few shots and not the whole scene as I previously assumed, so I’m guessing Famuyiwa just preferred one shot to be the other direction for the sake of a better sense of direction alongside with the other shots as they drive across the bridge.