The horizontal crop changes the transaction between the tower and the river: where a full-height composition makes the tower the vertical subject with the Seine as its base, this wider framing makes the river the subject and the tower one element in a larger account of the city. The Seine runs 775 kilometers through France and carries Paris's full history on its banks — the Île de la Cité at its center, the quays on both sides holding centuries of stone, the bridges crossing at intervals that the city organized itself around long before the tower arrived. In this cinematic framing the tower occupies a portion of the frame rather than commanding it, and what surrounds it — the river, the embankments, the sky — becomes as important as the structure itself. The horizontal format suits the Seine the way the vertical format suits the tower: it gives the river room to be what it is, and the tower appears within that room as a thing that belongs to a city rather than a city that belongs to it.