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Symmetry (or near it) in Movies and TV shows can lead to some beautiful shots. Let's start making a list:
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Technically, you are correct I suppose.
But i understand you prefer one picture from one movie
https://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/Skyfall/pages/Skyfall-0143.htm
https://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/Spectre/pages/Spectre-0209.htm
https://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/Spectre/pages/Spectre-0208.htm
Looks a like a bull and human waiting who going to atack first.
https://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/Spectre/pages/Spectre-0215.htm
Remember me to Goldeneye and QOS and SF also did this double face (Janus) thing.
https://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/Goldeneye/pages/Goldeneye-0201.htm
https://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/Goldeneye/pages/Goldeneye-0202.htm
https://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/Skyfall/pages/Skyfall-0170.htm
https://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/Skyfall/pages/Skyfall-0174.htm
https://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/Skyfall/images/Skyfall-0173.jpg
Some examples:
Even narratively, Kubrick's 2001 -- my favourite film of all time -- displays a great deal of symmetry.
https://www.provideocoalition.com/from-kubrick-to-anderson-one-point-perspective/
Chicago-City of Extremes early photograph by Kubrick, I would like a framed print of this.
I would like to get hold of prints of some of Kubricks early photographs they are excellent.
Same with Bertolucci's The Last Emperor:
Of course, this has probably more to do with the Chinese penchant for symmetry in architecture than a cinematographer's ingenuity, but still. The China photographs I took in the Nineties are also overwhelmingly symmetrical. Much as it happens with my pics from inside Gothic and Baroque churches.
Not perfectly symmetric, BUT......enough said.....
This NOT from SF, but from QoS!
QoS
I think Deakins is my personal favorite because the cinematography of the other two are marred by major issues (shoddy editing for QoS, terrible yellow tinted color grading for SP)
God I miss Ken Adam
TSWLM has some great symmetrical shots also, probably not a coincidence that Kubrick visited that set and gave advice.
Of course. M and Dr. Mabuse and Frau im Mond and Spione (yes, I checked them all) didn't yield any symmetry.
Yin and Yang
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by;