They were painting essences, and in order to paint an essence you have to paint it from its most characteristic angle. So they would simply combine the various characteristic essences of the human body. This was a piece of spiritual art. It wasn't trying to reproduce photographic reality, it was trying to reproduce and combine all the essential features of a person within one figure.
That's exactly what we do in film, except that instead of the body of the person, it's the work itself. The director chooses the most characteristic, revealing, interesting angle for every situation and every line of dialogue and every scene.
He then overshoots that material and gives the editor an additional range of choices. Link to the complete book in PDF:. Post a Comment. A personality of great influence in American cinema, she became known for her persuasive writing style and keen opinions, often in countercurrent with those of her contemporaries [such as her negative reviews of La Notte and West Side Story ], using a personal style unable to fit into any dogma.
She was one of the most striking opponents of the auteur theory as defended by Andrew Sarris, having written the article Circles and Squares that exposes, in a severe way, the frailties and the risks of this concept.
Mankiewicz as the sole author of the screenplay of Citizen Kane She was also a strong impulse for New Hollywood, through her long essay defending Bonnie and Clyde Over the years she created compilations of her film reviews and essays, where one can notice a constant sociolog. Read more. April 05, DMCA and Copyright : The book is not hosted on our servers, to remove the file please contact the source url.
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