I watched the Scorsese-Stones movie recently and left the theatre obsessed with this shot of Keith Ricahrds… one of the coolest cinematic images I’ve ever seen. The Essence of Rock. So I found it online, captured it, and slowed it way down. I didn’t play with the audio at all, but I love how it sounds like an explosion. Here it is described in The New Yorker:
At a guess, I would say that the average length of a shot in “Shine a Light” is around four seconds… one of them manages to focus on Keith, in the depths of a song, as he discards a cigarette not by stubbing it out, like a regular mortal, but by spitting it out, in a spray of bright sparks. Whoever caught this, it’s a gorgeous, one-in-a-million shot. — Anthony Lane in his review on April 14, 2008.
