"It is an indisputable fact that in a movie, there is no screen on the living human being. But there is something human, unlike anything we know. We can take stick to our simple description of something human like "in our presence while we are not in hers" (found in front of him because we watch, but not present for him )[...] And Humphrey Bogart was both a talented actor and a subject entering a camera. This is the case for some people, but there are so few that it is surprising that we continue to use the word "actor" instead word of the finest and fairest "star" celebs, stars are made only to be observed from afar, after the fact, predict their actions and our projects. Finally, we must note in what sense the creation of an interpreter (on screen) is also creating a character - not what kind of characters created by an author, but one that some people are real: a type. "
The projection of the world - Stanley Cavell
The projection of the world - Stanley Cavell
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford are the only two actresses who manage to terrify me literally on the screen, they can only afford to open their eyes angry as can mothers, alone make me want to turn the light to reassure me making visible the world's poor and more "real" which is around the screen, that look and anger were so for false . Is Marilyn Tippi Hedren can afford to do anything other than a lovely pout? There is something that changes with these women. Alone, with Barbara Stanwick, arrived to inspire the roles of "alpha woman" to developers. In their presence, the world Hollywood is reversed, the balance is reversed, the men are no longer in the middle of nothing but revolve around these beautiful monsters, Hitchcock never could film them, they would have squashed. A film Joan becomes the world or that of Bette, all bow in unison, and what needed to match their oversized ego is suddenly justified by the first image; they knew what they were wanting the best for themselves: it was indeed an entire industry working in their professional development. Young and old in their films in my mind they fail to be neither mother nor working girl or woman in love, or vamp, and throughout the film we do not think that to say "not you Bette / Joan, you know it's not you it, stop making me walk," they become credible when they give up their assigned role to take them as they are, they endlessly- same.
Bette Davis most often inspires a new type, on the sidelines of a kind well known: that of the bitch, one that imposes its whims other, that just fit around which the rest of the story. Joan is a mother but infinitely sweet temper, his face is made for the extremes. I talk about it because I was looking at pictures of Joan Crawford and I have to be overly excited by browsing through the archives http://www.legendaryjoancrawford.com/photos.html , trying to recognize in the face of vamp early decades, the most recognizable face, Brancusi , wide eyebrows, dark eyebrows and calmly continuing until the birth of the nose, lips finally large and oval. Through the chronological order of pictures is a face that seems to grow is something quite rare in actresses but moving to see: Bette recognizable at every moment that she I indescribably ironic that chases every frame. Joan is like Juliette Binoche and Nathalie Baye in their first films that do not realize yet the final form that will take their faces. This is not only the skin matures, it's all changing radically and almost tragically, as it is found to have white hair dint worry. I do not know what we hear those old picture of a world that no longer exists but is still young enough to impose its images, I do not know what purpose it was taking so many intimate pictures of these actors. Prosaically I would answer: for magazines. Or so I understand very well and I see this mass of photographs as a way to remedy the inadequacy of the physical star and inherent in every human being: limited in space and time. These photos can only be strengthened, to ensure that there is the illusion of a persistence in the multiplying and the freezing and despite the lack of pictures still speak Joan, he still says things about her, things that do not rot over time or as a result of a " Arabic phone, "but perfect in their ability to retain: where were these photos before landing on this blog? "The Save As" strengthen it considerably. The world formerly present only those photos that appear in its entirety is shocking. Everything is there, everything is rendered by the imagination, the limits of the photo are the limitations with which they can negotiate to extend. I also feel that these photos and they restore attendance does not just fascinate and nobody is fooled by a clear moral, a call for calm on which I'm thinking.
Reminds me of an anecdote: Emile, through there while I watched "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" found Bette Davis scary, saying it looked like the witch in Snow White ... it is precisely Joan Crawford, who inspired the witch in his version "Young". He spoke of this wrath.
I had to turn on the light to find this picture of witch so she terrifies me still
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