A Dutch tilt, Dutch angle, oblique angle, German angle, canted angle or Batman Angle is a cinematic tactic often used to portray the psychological uneasiness or tension in the subject being filmed. A Dutch angle is achieved by tilting the camera off to the side so that the shot is composed with the horizon at an angle to the bottom of the frame. Many Dutch angles are static shots at an obscure angle, but in a moving Dutch angle shot the camera can pivot, pan or track along the director/cinematographer's established diagonal axis for the shot. Horizon. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... Cameraman redirects here. ...

Examples of usage in movies

Dutch angled shot from Battlefield Earth, a film notorious for its use of such shots.^[1][2]

The angle was widely used in German cinema of the 1930s and 1940s, hence its name (Deutsch, meaning German, was often confused with the English word Dutch). Montages of Dutch angles are structured in a way that the tilts are almost always horizontally opposite in each shot, for example, a right tilted shot will nearly always be followed with a left tilted shot, and so on. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is a 2000 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by L. Ron Hubbard. ... Deutsch is: the German word for german a misspelling of the word Dutch, see Dutch (disambiguation) one of the three cognates of medieval Dietsch // A German family name Diana Deutsch, British-born, American cognitive psychologist Felix Deutsch, Helene Deutsch, Austrian-born American psychologist, Morton Deutsch Alexander Nikolaevich Deutsch, Russian astronomer...

The 1949 film The Third Man makes extensive use of Dutch angle shots, to emphasize the main character's alienation in a foreign environment. An anecdote of cinema lore alleges that once filming was completed, the crew presented director Carol Reed with a spirit level, to sardonically encourage him to use more traditional shooting angles.^{[citation needed]} The Third Man (1949) is a British film noir directed by Carol Reed. ... Sir Carol Reed (30 December 1906 – 25 April 1976) was an English film director, winner of an Academy Award for his film version of the musical, Oliver! (1968). ... A spirit level A spirit level or bubble level is an instrument designed to indicate whether a surface is level or plumb. ...

Dutch angles were used extensively in the original TV series of Batman, where each villain had his own angle. Scenes filmed in any villain's hideout, when only the chief villain and his henchmen were present, were invariably shot at an angle departing extremely from the horizontal. Such was the influence of this series in Britain that the colloquial term "Batman Angle" is still in common use today in that country.^{[citation needed]} Dutch angles are frequently used by film directors who have a background in the visual arts, such as Tim Burton (in The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Ed Wood), and Terry Gilliam, who used Dutch angles in The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, to represent madness, disorientation, and drug psychosis respectively. Sam Raimi used Dutch angles throughout the Evil Dead trilogy, to show that a character has become possessed. Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... Timothy Tim William Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated American film director, writer and designer notable for the quirky and gothic atmosphere of his films. ... The Nightmare Before Christmas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Ed Wood is a biopic directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp as the cross-dressing cult movie maker Edward D. Wood, Jr. ... Terrence Vance Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, animator, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Twelve Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction film written by David and Janet Peoples and directed by Terry Gilliam. ... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 film adaptation of Hunter S. Thompsons 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. ... For the American opera singer, see Samuel Ramey. ... The Evil Dead started as a series of films created by Sam Raimi. ...

The Dutch angle is an overt cinematographical technique that can easily be overused.^{[attribution needed]} The science-fiction film Battlefield Earth (2000), in particular, drew sharp criticism for its frequent use of the Dutch angle. In the words of film critic Roger Ebert, "the director, Roger Christian, has learned from better films that directors sometimes tilt their cameras, but he has not learned why."^[3] Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 is a 2000 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by L. Ron Hubbard. ... Roger Joseph Ebert (born June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. ... Roger Christian (born 1944) is an award-winning set decorator, production designer and feature film director. ...

In the camp classic Batman (1966) whenever the villains were shown a Dutch angle was used to show that they were "crooked".

Recently, the film Fay Grim was shot almost exclusively using dutch angles Fay Grim is a film currently in production by writer/director Hal Hartley. ...

References

1. ^ Persall, Steve. "Space aliens without a clue", St. Petersburg Times, 2000-05-12. Retrieved on 2006-07-30. 
2. ^ Graham, Bob. "What on Earth Are These Guys Doing? Roger Christian directs Travolta in sci-fi tale about humans fighting mineral-sucking giants from outer space", San Francisco Chronicle, 2000-04-30, p. PK-54. Retrieved on 2006-07-30. 
3. ^ Ebert, Roger. "Battlefield Earth", Chicago Sun-Times, 2000-05-12. Retrieved on 2006-07-29. 

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External links

• The Death of the Dutch Angle an article on Dutch angles at Broken Projector