re: Searching for Bobby Fischer - Underrated Classic

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Cinematography by the great Conrad L. Hall.

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Now that you mention it, I couldn’t agree more. In the scene I mentioned above when he beats his dad, the visuals were amazing. Starting when he threw the phone books off the chair leaned in and said “Your move” to when he is playing with his sister, talking on the phone between moves and then when he beat him just was awesome.

The phone scene with the swinging door where he puts the phone down runs thru the door so it’s starts swinging so it blocks your view for a second then next second you see him move then blocks view again and next second he is back on the phone is great. Then the ending when he beats him making moves by yelling down from the bath tub was another level great. Mantenga yells back to him sayings it’s a knight not a horse and then says “ok” and tells the wife “He is going to lose his Queen” and she says something with a big smile like “You think huh??”. The last shot when Josh tells him it’s over and the shot pans to the board and you see the checkmate was just so awesome.

That’s all just one scene of many very similar to that. The final scene is on the same level of greatness.

I’m just going to top it off at the end when he is walking off with his buddy after the tournament who is like a year younger than him and he puts his arm around him bc he was a little dejected he lost and says “You know you were a much better player than I was at the same age”. If that moment doesn’t hit you in the feels something may be wrong with you.