Title: The Subtitle

Hi, I'm Brian, and you have stumbled upon my neck of the Tumblr woods.

(This is where I mostly write about things I'm into and think about, for my art, please see @bthingsart.)

Granted I've only seen the movie once, when it came out (I'd read the book by happenstance a few months earlier, and my dad took me to see it as the first R-rated movie I saw in theaters), but that shot did not leave any impression on me. It's an interesting shot for the use of a telephoto lens, but it's just a thing that's happening. Nonetheless, my film classes in college all trotted that clip out, and every YouTube video that discusses telephoto lenses will be like, "You can see the effect in this shot from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy."

I think what I find most amusing is that that movie is basically never discussed for any other reason. When my dad and I went to see it, I was the youngest person in the theater, and my dad was the second youngest. That movie (not the book) has basically no relevance to wider pop culture,* but everyone talks about how it used a telephoto lens in one shot.

So, I accidentally dropped a dino nugget fresh out of the microwave, so when my dog came to steal it, it was too hot for her. She probably spent a couple minutes trying to figure out how to manage to eat it without burning her mouth. She circled it. She looked at me. She tried to pick it up again. Of course, the solution was just to wait and let the nugget cool, but I could tell she was working on it the whole time, trying to devise a strategy to eat the chicken nugget NOW without it being too hot.