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  • Jimmy Chin, 'Free Solo' documentarian filmmaker and professional climber, breaks down survival tactics and cinematography from film, including '127 Hours,' 'The Revenant,' 'Into the Wild,' 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,' 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,' 'Point Break,' 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'The Beach.'
    00:00 Intro
    00:25 '127 Hours'
    02:34 'The Revenant'
    06:45 'Into the Wild'
    09:58 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'
    12:24 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'
    16:31 'Point Break'
    19:09 'Lawrence of Arabia'
    21:49 'The Beach'
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    Filmmaker Jimmy Chin Breaks Down Epic Nature Scenes from Movies | GQ
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  • @GQVideos
    @GQVideos  Před 2 lety +18

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  • @TheHelican
    @TheHelican Před 2 lety +767

    For people needing to google this guy, he is 1) a world class mountaineer, climber and skier (he didn't just climb Mount Everest, he skied down it) and 2) one of, if not THE, best mountaineering photographers/filmmakers alive right now. He can not only keep pace with some of the worlds strongest rock and ice climbers, he can film them - artistically! - while doing everything they they do just as skilfully. His first documentary film is called Meru and he filmed a lot of the footage ad hoc while part of a team trying to climb a coveted mountain face in the Himalayas, and since then he and his directing partner made an oscar-winning film called Free Solo about Alex Honnold, one of the best and probably most famous rock climbers in the world, climbing a 2,300 metre rockface with zero ropes or safety equipment. Jimmy Chin is really, really cool.

    • @stayingweakisnotokay7502
      @stayingweakisnotokay7502 Před 2 lety +6

      alex is a god

    • @NoahRoach9214
      @NoahRoach9214 Před 2 lety +6

      Just for accuracy sake, I don’t know if I would say he can do everything they can do but with a camera

    • @nathangiannini3282
      @nathangiannini3282 Před 2 lety +5

      El cap is not 2,300 meters tall

    • @615exotics4
      @615exotics4 Před 2 lety +14

      @@nathangiannini3282 You are right it's 2,307: El Capitan, byname El Cap, mountain in Yosemite National Park, east-central California. One of the park’s most notable landmarks, the granite monolith features nearly vertical walls and stands 7,569 feet (2,307 metres) above sea level and towers some 3,600 feet (1,100 metres) over the western end of Yosemite Valley.. Source Britannia

    • @itszaque5031
      @itszaque5031 Před 2 lety +8

      @@NoahRoach9214 he can do a lot of it, I think the point is that he can reach places and get shots that other film makers aren’t often able to get because he is experienced in a bunch of extreme sports.

  • @eafofny
    @eafofny Před 2 lety +215

    unassumingly one of the planet's biggest badasses. Dude skied down Mount Everest after summitting it.

    • @tylerthompson5859
      @tylerthompson5859 Před 2 lety +4

      "I'm gonna climb it!"
      *Does*
      "Ah.. now, I'm gonna ski down it!"

  • @alexislanitis4434
    @alexislanitis4434 Před 2 lety +36

    As a DP of 12 years thank you for giving kudos to how important we are to a film production. Love how you emphasise on how we insist on getting stuff not necessarily in the script or production schedules. It gets a lot of people frustrated but makes for better films!

  • @kellychung9169
    @kellychung9169 Před 2 lety +130

    such a cool perspective--as someone who is a world class athlete/cinematographer/director/photographer--he literally knows all the different perspectives of each shot

    • @prdoyle
      @prdoyle Před 2 lety +2

      Jimmy Chin is such a legend.

  • @decarvaj2256
    @decarvaj2256 Před 2 lety +31

    Gosh, this man has one of the most soothing and pleasing voices I've ever heard

    • @cachelesssociety5187
      @cachelesssociety5187 Před rokem +2

      Indeed. I find its not just his voice. After watching Free Solo, 14 Peaks, and Meru, I would say he's a treasure of a human being. I'm sure the accomplishments he's been a part of owe a great deal to the equilibrium that comes across in his voice. . So well measured in unbelievably stressful circumstances.

  • @kbuttstadt
    @kbuttstadt Před 2 lety +44

    One of the few people that can be justified in his criticism. The dude is a LEGEND.

  • @m3rcuryslaboratory322
    @m3rcuryslaboratory322 Před 2 lety +70

    Jimmy is the man! One of the best breakdowns of the year.

    • @chewie-v9546
      @chewie-v9546 Před 2 lety +8

      Did you not hear him ramble about 127 hours and never actually say anything meaningful

  • @jessica8221
    @jessica8221 Před 2 lety +26

    Jimmy Chin is the coolest. Totally blown away by him ever sense I watched Meru.

  • @FollowingtheonewhoisChrist
    @FollowingtheonewhoisChrist Před 2 lety +15

    My family and I know Jimmy personally and I'm really good friends with his niece. Really awesome guy!!

  • @brandonpullan9871
    @brandonpullan9871 Před 2 lety +8

    Jimmy is one of the best in the game. His films Free Solo and The Rescue are the best of their genre. Cool to hear his perspectives on these classic scenes.

  • @NoizyBearBearOfficial
    @NoizyBearBearOfficial Před 2 lety +48

    He’s a Professional Climber/Photographer just in case y’all didn’t know what he was breaking down. Had to look him up. 🙄

    • @alldaydevo
      @alldaydevo Před 2 lety +2

      Check out Meru, thats when I found him, bloody legend

    • @wolfferoni
      @wolfferoni Před 2 lety +3

      It's the first line in the description.

    • @summerwinterfallspring4663
      @summerwinterfallspring4663 Před 2 lety +2

      Bad title name. Should have specified that. I thought I was watching a survival expert and he was just doing a really bad job at the interview.

  • @Micksowagger
    @Micksowagger Před 2 lety +23

    Awesome breakdown, Jimmy Chin's insight is brilliant.

  • @anujith99
    @anujith99 Před 2 lety +7

    Love this guy ! His photography book was the best Xmas gift I got this year ❤️

  • @mcfart
    @mcfart Před 2 lety +19

    yall should do more break downs with cinematographers/directors/etc

    • @elysiumsnakefarm1185
      @elysiumsnakefarm1185 Před 2 lety

      Yeah so then all the comments are like, "who tf is that" lol I totally agree with you, btw, just saying thats what would probably happen

  • @ValerieVfc
    @ValerieVfc Před 2 lety +14

    Does Jimmy have his own Masterclass!? So many great tips on how to shoot in the wilderness..

  • @carlyhope
    @carlyhope Před 2 lety +11

    This was really interesting. Different but so informative.
    And his voice is really soothing super-lovely to listen to.

  • @Rizzbulla
    @Rizzbulla Před 2 lety +7

    He did an amazing job filming Alex Honnold. Free Solo was amazing.

  • @SpamMouse
    @SpamMouse Před 2 lety +3

    LOVE the breakdowns.

  • @hikingleigh
    @hikingleigh Před 2 lety +3

    Jimmy! Besides Alex Handhold's breakdowns, have never clicked faster

  • @MartinV.
    @MartinV. Před 2 lety +2

    Jimmy Chin...yeah dude!!!!

  • @leilatarighi
    @leilatarighi Před 2 lety +1

    We have all been waiting for this one

  • @tombystander
    @tombystander Před 2 lety +4

    Dude crushed it with free solo

  • @MaverickZ007
    @MaverickZ007 Před 2 lety +5

    My hero Jimmy Chin!

  • @mayaloza2140
    @mayaloza2140 Před 2 lety +2

    such an epic filmmaker & person !

  • @taylorlayton4508
    @taylorlayton4508 Před 2 lety +3

    Nice touch to end on Leave No Trace. Be gentle out there. Leave only footprints (if that), take only pictures.

  • @artisticanna5275
    @artisticanna5275 Před 2 lety +1

    Loved watching him 🧡

  • @n0kki85
    @n0kki85 Před 2 lety +14

    I wonder when they ask me to do the breakdown for mediocre office job enviroments.

  • @HenggaoCai
    @HenggaoCai Před 2 lety +2

    Into the Wild was the book that got me interested in this area.

  • @andresgalvez
    @andresgalvez Před 2 lety +1

    Jimmy Chin is the man!

  • @samburks4815
    @samburks4815 Před 2 lety +4

    Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker review mountaineering scenes in movies??

  • @VNExperience
    @VNExperience Před 2 lety +2

    Jimmy Chin, _aka _*_"Jimmy the Chin"_*
    It was destiny - he was *_born_* to bear that name.
    Just like _Vincent "the Chin" Gigante._ 😎

  • @TheSkyHive
    @TheSkyHive Před 2 lety +1

    This is great content!

  • @HenggaoCai
    @HenggaoCai Před 2 lety +3

    Into the Wild was written by his mentor, Jon Krakaur.

  • @LordQuiche
    @LordQuiche Před 2 lety +1

    Good vid thanks 🙏

  • @SLEEPYJK
    @SLEEPYJK Před 2 lety

    I like how the thumbnail is Jimmy Chin pointing to his actual chin

  • @fialee8
    @fialee8 Před 2 lety

    Just imagine trying to make one of these films 50+years ago where there was no digital or batteries. That's truly tough film making.

  • @lincolnlu9869
    @lincolnlu9869 Před 2 lety +3

    Man. So many people never watched Free Solo huh?

  • @TedTVNews
    @TedTVNews Před 2 lety +3

    every dude that ever stepped in Fort Collins for more than 15 seconds talks like this

  • @gabzpot
    @gabzpot Před 2 lety +2

    Chin is the real Daredevil.

  • @James-dp3vx
    @James-dp3vx Před 2 lety +1

    Free solo ❤️

  • @auburn2234
    @auburn2234 Před 2 lety +2

    Crazy question, love the flannel shirt , mind sharing what brand it is??

    • @oborevad
      @oborevad Před 2 lety

      I want to know this too, did you find out, thought logically it might be Northface but haven’t found anything.

    • @1utube01
      @1utube01 Před 5 měsíci

      Duluth Trading has something similar to it, with the vivid blue, but Duluth's is a flannel shirt jacket, and has a more solid yellow, vs his is not a jacket, and is faded yellow or beige. He is sponsored by North Face. So another possibility is it might be one of theirs.

  • @qwork-qwork4637
    @qwork-qwork4637 Před 9 měsíci

    2:57 fun fact: The Revenant was filmed entirely in natural light. A lot of people quit.

  • @tjmed7708
    @tjmed7708 Před 2 lety +1

    did they change the title of the video?

  • @Phsymon7
    @Phsymon7 Před 2 lety +31

    2/7 scenes were survival. The rest were just beautiful shots. Isn't this the wrong kind of clips to break down for this awesome guy?...

  • @desmondwang4391
    @desmondwang4391 Před 2 lety +2

    nice shirt! whats the brand?

  • @littlelulu52093
    @littlelulu52093 Před 2 lety +2

    No greater legend than this guy. He survived an avalanche for effs sake

  • @rickracht1517
    @rickracht1517 Před 2 lety +1

    Jimmy Chin is awesome!!

  • @redri0t77
    @redri0t77 Před 2 lety +1

    Y’all should do cowboys with western movies or tv shows (like Yellowstone)👀👀👀👀👀

  • @neaituppi7306
    @neaituppi7306 Před rokem +2

    I think this one was particularly informed, because he knows the real situations, but also understands the priorities of filming something that looks really cool, at the expense of it "being real." I stopped watching a lot of these, because of the insistence of anything in them being real. if you only want real, don't watch movies.

  • @starkparker16
    @starkparker16 Před 2 lety +1

    Cool shirt, Jimmy.

  • @johnny_sodapop
    @johnny_sodapop Před 2 lety +60

    Kind of a weird episode, tbh. You usually have person who does thing breaking down scenes of thing. I had to look up who Jimmy is because you didn't have him say what he does. I appreciate and enjoyed watching this, but why did you not title it, 'DP Jimmy Chin breaks down filming in extreme environment scenes'. Because that's what's going on and it's awesome but your title is misleading because by the third vignette, we're all wondering what all this has to do with survival.

    • @eifelitorn
      @eifelitorn Před 2 lety +2

      They say who he is in the description though.

  • @dejjibd424
    @dejjibd424 Před 2 lety

    Revenant was great

  • @clayhackney3514
    @clayhackney3514 Před 2 lety +1

    Maybe clarify that this is about cinematography and not an evaluation of the reality of the survival scenes??

  • @vnmueser
    @vnmueser Před 2 lety +1

    Ayy Jimmy! Good host

  • @georgehernandez2156
    @georgehernandez2156 Před 2 lety

    They should have shown him the movie Buried.

  • @calum3704
    @calum3704 Před 2 lety

    Do a 10 things Steven rinnela can’t live without

  • @westonbuhler5470
    @westonbuhler5470 Před rokem +2

    Watch Free Solo. absolutely amazing.

  • @graceellen622
    @graceellen622 Před 2 lety +1

    my biggest flex is that my mom dated him in highschool

  • @mattmeyers8167
    @mattmeyers8167 Před 2 lety +1

    Lol @ anybody thinking their filming conditions were the same as Meru. They were not.

  • @MrWadeBarrett
    @MrWadeBarrett Před 2 lety +4

    He didn't break down survival scenes, he broke down the mpvie techniques in survival scenes

  • @fredy5720
    @fredy5720 Před 2 lety +1

    Is this a breakdown of survival or photography? Because I’m hella confused 😐

  • @sammts9058
    @sammts9058 Před 2 lety +89

    Thought he was suppose to break down survival scenes? He's talking more about photography than survival 😂

    • @saginawdan
      @saginawdan Před 2 lety +2

      Click bait.

    • @theoccasionalmoonlight4050
      @theoccasionalmoonlight4050 Před 2 lety +4

      Same. Why make it about "survival scenes" if he's gonna talk mostly about cinematography?

    • @johnluujl
      @johnluujl Před 2 lety +16

      @@theoccasionalmoonlight4050 I mean this is what he shoots, he's not just any DP/director. I'm more critical about the fact that they didn't mention that at the beginning of the video, because obviously everyone unfamiliar with him is gonna assume he's a survival expert.

    • @slickman5969
      @slickman5969 Před 2 lety +1

      hes a director

    • @kochevar99
      @kochevar99 Před 2 lety +3

      That might be because he is a photographer lol

  • @frankrojas304
    @frankrojas304 Před rokem

    What's the difference between a fire in a cave and a fire in an igloo?

  • @henryholcomb3269
    @henryholcomb3269 Před 2 lety

    carleton alum 😤

  • @odin2823
    @odin2823 Před 2 lety

    survival is limited, just shots of movies in nature

  • @gucciganglil2635
    @gucciganglil2635 Před 2 lety

    NATURE

  • @ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid

    It's so gross how they introduce him as a "film director". 🤦‍♂️

  • @cesarvictorino8624
    @cesarvictorino8624 Před 2 lety

    Real Cop or Real Life Firefighter break down police scenes or fire scenes.

  • @seaaniiee9081
    @seaaniiee9081 Před 2 lety

    So is he a director or some bear grylls??

  • @Lemur4200
    @Lemur4200 Před 2 lety +2

    Find me that flannel 😅

    • @desmondwang4391
      @desmondwang4391 Před 2 lety +1

      what brand the flannel is?

    • @Lemur4200
      @Lemur4200 Před 2 lety +1

      @@desmondwang4391 not sure closest I've found was a $70 one

    • @oborevad
      @oborevad Před 2 lety

      Did anyone find out the brand ?

  • @coyote000
    @coyote000 Před 2 lety +1

    3:27 his nails are so white

  • @neaituppi7306
    @neaituppi7306 Před rokem +1

    All he said about The Beach, was the ethics of leaving an area as it was, with no disruption. 💩

  • @giacomoreverdito89
    @giacomoreverdito89 Před 2 lety

    Does Jimmy Chin really not know what Petra is?

  • @d3m3nt3dtaco
    @d3m3nt3dtaco Před 2 lety +1

    Can y'all do former presidents break down presidential movies? Obama would be good at this.

  • @bullishbearwhisperer4503
    @bullishbearwhisperer4503 Před 2 lety +3

    This guy needs to go on joe rogan! He's got a wealth of knowledge and experience that would make a 3 hr podcast fascinating. 👌

  • @gunsofaugust1971
    @gunsofaugust1971 Před rokem

    Jimmy is a god whom I admire, so don't take this the wrong way. Do any of you fans know the timing of this vid? Was he coming off a rough project? He looks a bit haggard.

  • @JacobEjgaard
    @JacobEjgaard Před rokem

    Kinda ......... you know ........... like .......... you know

  • @Mm.Ant70
    @Mm.Ant70 Před 2 lety

    *if I gain 375 more subs and I will jump into Jake Paul’s next fight!🤝*

  • @markdotinc8371
    @markdotinc8371 Před 2 lety +1

    So, I guess filmmaking is challenging

  • @ChadTower
    @ChadTower Před 2 lety

    Misleading... I wanted survival evaluation, not cinematography. Forget this thing.

  • @redxreview
    @redxreview Před 2 lety

    Is he a survival expert or a cinematographer?

    • @allasFCB3
      @allasFCB3 Před 2 lety

      both. also a climber and filmmaker.

  • @bowmanwright140
    @bowmanwright140 Před 2 lety

    Maybe change the title? Really misleading. Interesting video but it doesn't really line up with your title.

  • @emmanuilch
    @emmanuilch Před rokem

    ukraine

  • @folarinosibodu
    @folarinosibodu Před 2 lety

    He's talking about filmmaking not about what they are actually doing. Not too good.

  • @hankisdank1
    @hankisdank1 Před 2 lety

    Jimmy Chin has many talents but he's not a survivalist

  • @t-bonestickyfingers1336

    He is a great filmmaker but this video was pretty lame.

  • @4JTH
    @4JTH Před 2 lety

    Boring. Discussing lighting, camera angles. What happened to the survival aspect?

  • @penname8380
    @penname8380 Před 2 lety

    Into the wild's Christopher McCandless just didn't seem very intelligent.

  • @Leu8304
    @Leu8304 Před 2 lety

    Probably the first rather boring break down (but surely the first totally mislabeled one..)

  • @charbiz801
    @charbiz801 Před 2 lety

    Worst breakdown ever. Totally thought I was going to watch something different, turned into film studies 1010.

  • @archivesofarda986
    @archivesofarda986 Před 2 lety +3

    You know there is actual survival movies right?
    Jeremiah Johnson
    Alive
    Jungle
    BackCountry
    Everest
    The Edge
    Alaska
    Open Water
    Cast Away
    The 33
    Adrift
    All Is Lost just to name a few
    And you went with The Lord Of The Rings?