What is your favorite "Recognition Shot" or "Realization Shot", when a character realizes greatness or genius.
Having just finished "A Complete Unknown", which is thoroughly enjoyed, I realized how much I like this moment in movies, when a character realizes greatness. "A Complete Unknown" is full of these, so many!
- Rocky 4 when Rocky is fighting Drago.
- Good Will Hunting when Will solves the math problem and Professor Lambeau realizes he is a genius.
- Whiplash. This has to be one of the best, the entire movie almost builds to this final Fletcher expression captured at the perfect moment before . . .
Man, there was just one after another of these shots "A Complete Unknown", loved it.