Or maybe it wasn't an editing trick but something that came across as a continuity or "not well thought out" situation that instead of fixing by changing some placement they just used an editing trick.
I'm still watching it but right at the beginning during the original action "hook" set of scenes, Kevin Costner's character exits a big hotel by the front doors and goes to a waiting "undercover intel van" sitting right in front, on the main street busy with traffic, in broad daylight and even people walking down the sidewalk in the distance. (about 5 mins in)
He pounds once on the door and then the trick...
It cuts to the inside of the intel van after having his character already shut the door. It's full of 3 other secret agents, a bank of intel computers and the lighting is all "film development room red" which of course was just a decision made the lighting effect.
My issue is that I don't think an undercover intel van would just open the side sliding door, in the middle of the day, towards the hotel entrance, exposing 3 secret agents, unnatural red mood lighting and a van wall covered with secret spy computers.
But instead of addressing that IMHO logical continuity problem, they just did a quick edit of Kevin Costner outside in broad daylight knocks on van door, cut to inside darkened undercover intel van with 3 agents, secret computers and bright RED mood lighting.
IMHO what they SHOULD have done is have that van be parked around a corner, out of sight, or in a parking garage or something.
Just didn't make sense and I didn't buy what they attempted to do with the edit.
Maybe I'm wrong but it just didn't sit right.
I'm still watching it but right at the beginning during the original action "hook" set of scenes, Kevin Costner's character exits a big hotel by the front doors and goes to a waiting "undercover intel van" sitting right in front, on the main street busy with traffic, in broad daylight and even people walking down the sidewalk in the distance. (about 5 mins in)
He pounds once on the door and then the trick...
It cuts to the inside of the intel van after having his character already shut the door. It's full of 3 other secret agents, a bank of intel computers and the lighting is all "film development room red" which of course was just a decision made the lighting effect.
My issue is that I don't think an undercover intel van would just open the side sliding door, in the middle of the day, towards the hotel entrance, exposing 3 secret agents, unnatural red mood lighting and a van wall covered with secret spy computers.
But instead of addressing that IMHO logical continuity problem, they just did a quick edit of Kevin Costner outside in broad daylight knocks on van door, cut to inside darkened undercover intel van with 3 agents, secret computers and bright RED mood lighting.
IMHO what they SHOULD have done is have that van be parked around a corner, out of sight, or in a parking garage or something.
Just didn't make sense and I didn't buy what they attempted to do with the edit.
Maybe I'm wrong but it just didn't sit right.
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