Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Short Cuts On Black Women

Small notes The Searchers by John Ford (1956) Natalie Wood


The scenes in the villages are turned into studios, and it feels to look at, why?
1) because of too high order that is felt in the studio sets. Nature suggests that it wanders, she calmly turned toward herself and thus it is not practical or decorative but disorganized and rigorous. We shoot with the rigor it imposes on us, and indeed the aridity of nature is a necessary ingredient of the Western. Thus the studio setting can only ring true: the sky is blue without depth, vegetation and minerals are ridiculously poor, unmanly, positioned so that it leaves room for a rest. A man can not reproduce the type size, it can not reproduce his order in disorder, it lacks an overview, it lacks time to moderate this dead blue supposed to give the feeling of heaven He lacks ambition, he prefers him to the bush to the wise and huge plane tree.

2) You feel very quickly limited by the context, something the decor gives the impression that outside of the frame and nothing has been decorated as the technique ahead. We feel the roundness of the set built around the camera, by a kind of avarice, takes everything to the limit will not be filmed. It would take a slight movement of camera to fall on the vacuum. Why create a whole desert for two three still shots? The imaginary pick up the pieces, guess the outfield. It would be like a skirt ALMOST too short, but is not yet, we would like to expose the shamelessness but words are formed in the mouth without commenting, because it is not quite shameless.
But that's where I wanted to get at incredible detail and burned my eyes, at the top of the screen it is very often either poorly framed and we see the very top screen the edge of a piece of decor and studio. This vision was burning my eyes, it was simply unbearable and setter of questions: the rigor of a developer can pass it bad angle so rude? If it is intentional it was for the middle of this western very serious, too serious, almost exhausting, and would leave suddenly escape casually semblance of reflection on film and fiction general?
I'm looking on the internet, I find nothing that studious analysis of the film but nothing on this burning hole in the fabric of fiction. I am willing to be told that all these stories I'm going to see are fake, from there to show me ...

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