... There by Jerzy Kosinski into a film allowed the director to let viewers really understand the character of Chance. The director has many options in which to portray the feelings, mood and characters. He can use certain film techniques to make the scene. Using different angles and distances can change the whole outlook of a scene. Hal Ashby's significant opening and closing shots in Being There use many different techniques ... . Medium shots with regular angles in the opening shot and a long shot with a telephoto lens in the closing shot are what Hal Ashby picked to use. Ashby decided to...

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