It hit me the other day how easy it is to watch the film the same way every time - focusing on the same things, maybe missing the same things. Because so many things are happening visually, aurally, intellectually and emotionally, it gets easy to follow a familiar selective track based on prior viewings.
Unless you are always pausing the film to look carefully, or to follow a thought, a lot gets missed.
One thing I noticed was always dissolving into a beautiful blur was the cinematography. I find I have only approximate saved mental images from a lot of shots which last only only a few seconds. Especially with that distracting score playing! Images are the one element of the film it is probably easiest to freeze and hold.
So I am starting this thread for myself, and for anyone else who has had this experience, simply to post screencaps of scenes that WON'T sit still on their own to be admired, but which I am DETERMINED to make sit still.
...To post screencaps with or without comment as the spirit moves.
I am getting mine from a store many of us are familiar with, Striped Wall,
http://www.stripedwall.com/cpg/index.php?cat=11Others may know of other sources, or may make their own.
Rather than copying off the images to a pictures server and linking to the image file, I will probably just provide the URL to the fullsize version of the picture. Quick and easy. I find the fullsize picture I want, copy the .jpg name from its properties, and copy that into the post. You do have to click on the link that way to see them, but are spared the Photobucket step. When I click the pictures come up midsized, but go nearly fullscreen when I maximize the popup.
Here are three from the mountain:
http://www.stripedwall.com/cpg/displayimage.php?pos=-151692http://www.stripedwall.com/cpg/displayimage.php?pos=-151970http://www.stripedwall.com/cpg/displayimage.php?pos=-152217Note from Phillip: Edited links so they should now work properly.