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Star Wars Appreciation Society
date posted: Nov 30, 2007 1:34 PM
The Case of the Upwards Pan
So, has anyone else wondered why, in AOTC, the camera pans UP after the opening crawl instead of down? Every other movie in the saga pans down. I know this may sound like a weird observation, but it's a trademark of all the movies. Dating back to when my now 16 year old son was about 3, he would sit on my lap and point toward the ground as a signal that he knew the camera was panning down once the crawl ended. We both sat in the theater before AOTC and pointed down, and yet the camera goes up. We were shocked! I just wonder why George chose this route for the movie instead of sticking with tradition...whether just a mistake or if he ever really meant to pan down in all of them, or it just happened that way....