Movie: Blade (1998)
Director: Stephen Norrington
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120611/?ref_=tt_rec_tt
This scene begins with a shot of a traumatized man (who had been led to the nightclub by a vampire) looking up at the main protagonist named 'Blade.' While the camera is looking down on the man, the camera slowly pans up starting from Blade's waist to his face while cutting to medium close ups and close ups of vampires who are shocked by his presence, thus backing away in a crowd. This gives the impression that Blade is powerful and is feared by the vampires. Shortly after this the fight scene begins with one the vampires rushing out of the crowd, attempting to attack blade, but dies when Blade shoots him with a shotgun.
During the fight scene, certain vampires are shown to be more powerful than others simply by having the camera looking up at them but never as much as the camera looks up at Blade. This really adds depth to the scene as if this were not the case it would be just Blade slaughtering a nightclub of unarmed regular vampires, which is not as entertaining as there being some more dangerous vampires attacking him as well.
About halfway through the slaughter, another vampire enters the main floor of the nightclub led by at least seven tough looking vampires wearing all black and armed with guns. This quickly cuts to a slow motion close up shot of Blade turning around to face his new enemies. As he fights them off he makes his way into a circular shaped shower room which is the only time the camera is looking down on him. This is more than likely due to cramped environment in which the action is taking place, which in turn makes you feel Blade is somewhat vulnerable in this situation but alas, he slaughters everyone and jumps up to higher ground within the shower room.
This scene contains an interesting angle where there is a medium close up of Blade standing up against the upper regions of the shower room holding a boomerang-esque weapon which then cuts to three enemies entering the room who end up with their heads cut off buy said boomerang weapon.
Overall, this is a great action scene which contains many shots that are attuned to the action hero/superhero genres.
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