The second I saw the pilot-windshield POV in a plane crash sequence from the trailer for Angelina Jolie‘s Unbroken (Universal, 12.25), I knew it had been respectfully stolen from a very similar shot in Alfred Hitchcock‘s Foreign Correspondent (’40). Obviously. Hitchcock achieved the effect of water smashing through the cockpit windshield by sending a couple of hundred gallons through a rice-paper projection screen. Jolie reportedly achieved the same effect in a similar physical manner.
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Unbroken ocean-impact shot #1
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Foreign Correspondent ocean-impact shot #1
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