5. Jake Lammottas P.O.V of Sugar Ray Robinson in Raging Bull (1980)
http://youtu.be/5wwItkoapuA Scorsese gets another mention in this list for creating what I believe to be one of the most effective utilizations of the Trombone shot Ive ever seen outside of a Hitchcock picture. You can jump to it at 1:18 in the video above, but do watch the whole scene again; you wont regret it. Why It Was Inventive: In my view, you can compare Scorsese to Tarantino. Both are influenced heavily by the visionaries that came before them and both borrow heavily from convention, but both use said convention in vibrantly unique ways to achieve something completely their own. This wasnt the first time the trombone shot had been used, but Id never seen it used quite like this until I smacked eyes on Raging Bull. The rest of this sequence is made up of fast, frenetic cuts but for eleven seconds, when Lamotta decides to take Robinsons full beating, we become him in what might be one of the greatest P.O.V shots of all time. I have a friend who used to box, and he told me that when youre in the ring, time seems to slow down and the spectators seem to be a million miles away, like youre in a bubble containing only you and your opponent. If you ask me, this shot achieves that feeling perfectly and with it Scorsese once again reaffirms his cinematic genius.