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When Stunt Doubles Have Too Much Free Time (NSFW?)

Together with cinema drones, this sort of first-person view, which is actually the official video for Biting Elbows' forgettable tune, "Bad Motherfucker," stands to uproot all our existing notions of filmmaking.

Maybe I'm late to this one. Maybe I'm hopelessly late to this one. I wouldn't know--I just narrowly escaped being offed execution-style, and am nursing a vicious forearm dog bite. My hands are bleeding, I'm leaping and bounding through a fighter-jet graveyard, and there's something like 20 burly, upset suit bros riding my tail.

And that's it, right there. This, people, is how you use something like a GoPro to completely rethink storytelling and perspective. Together with cinema drones, this sort of first-person view, which is actually the official video for Biting Elbows' forgettable tune, "Bad Motherfucker," stands to uproot all our existing notions of filmmaking. And that rules.