Men in tights, and iron pants
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kitaikaУ меня есть союзник, David Bordwell: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/?p=2713 Читаю и ржу. Извините-)
Christopher Nolan showed himself a clever director in Memento and a promising one in The Prestige. So how did he manage to make The Dark Knight such a portentously hollow movie? Apart from enjoying seeing Hong Kong in Imax, I was struck by the repetition of gimmicky situations–disguises, hostage-taking, ticking bombs, characters dangling over a skyscraper abyss, who’s dead really once and for all? The fights and chases were as unintelligible as most such sequences are nowadays, and the usual roaming-camera formulas were applied without much variety. Shoot lots of singles, track slowly in on everybody who’s speaking, spin a circle around characters now and then, and transition to a new scene with a quick airborne shot of a cityscape. Like Jim Emerson, I thought that everything hurtled along at the same aggressive pace. If I want an arch-criminal caper aiming for shock, emotional distress, and political comment, I’ll take Benny Chan’s New Police Story.
Then there are the mouths. This is a movie about mouths. I couldn’t stop staring at them. Given Batman’s cowl and his husky whisper, you practically have to lip-read his lines. Harvey Dent’s vagrant facial parts are especially engaging around the jaws, and of course the Joker’s double rictus dominates his face. Gradually I found Maggie Gyllenhaal’s spoonbill lips starting to look peculiar.
The expository scenes were played with a somber knowingness I found stifling. Quoting lame dialogue is one of the handiest weapons in a critic’s arsenal and I usually don’t resort to it; many very good movies are weak on this front. Still, I can’t resist feeling that some weighty lines were doing duty for extended dramatic development, trying to convince me that enormous issues were churning underneath all the heists, fights, and chases. Know your limits, Master Wayne. Or: Some men just want to watch the world burn. Or: In their last moments people show you who they really are. Or: The night is darkest before the dawn.
I want to ask: Why so serious?
Чувак не побоялся спросить, уважаю)) огромная статья, кстати, я ещё в процессе.
Christopher Nolan showed himself a clever director in Memento and a promising one in The Prestige. So how did he manage to make The Dark Knight such a portentously hollow movie? Apart from enjoying seeing Hong Kong in Imax, I was struck by the repetition of gimmicky situations–disguises, hostage-taking, ticking bombs, characters dangling over a skyscraper abyss, who’s dead really once and for all? The fights and chases were as unintelligible as most such sequences are nowadays, and the usual roaming-camera formulas were applied without much variety. Shoot lots of singles, track slowly in on everybody who’s speaking, spin a circle around characters now and then, and transition to a new scene with a quick airborne shot of a cityscape. Like Jim Emerson, I thought that everything hurtled along at the same aggressive pace. If I want an arch-criminal caper aiming for shock, emotional distress, and political comment, I’ll take Benny Chan’s New Police Story.
Then there are the mouths. This is a movie about mouths. I couldn’t stop staring at them. Given Batman’s cowl and his husky whisper, you practically have to lip-read his lines. Harvey Dent’s vagrant facial parts are especially engaging around the jaws, and of course the Joker’s double rictus dominates his face. Gradually I found Maggie Gyllenhaal’s spoonbill lips starting to look peculiar.
The expository scenes were played with a somber knowingness I found stifling. Quoting lame dialogue is one of the handiest weapons in a critic’s arsenal and I usually don’t resort to it; many very good movies are weak on this front. Still, I can’t resist feeling that some weighty lines were doing duty for extended dramatic development, trying to convince me that enormous issues were churning underneath all the heists, fights, and chases. Know your limits, Master Wayne. Or: Some men just want to watch the world burn. Or: In their last moments people show you who they really are. Or: The night is darkest before the dawn.
I want to ask: Why so serious?
Чувак не побоялся спросить, уважаю)) огромная статья, кстати, я ещё в процессе.
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Date: 2008-08-23 07:24 pm (UTC)термин переводится в зависимости от контекста, и, в принципе, часто встречается в текстах про кино и около
это слово хорошо размусоливают тут (http://forum.lingvo.ru/actualthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=83097&pg=-1&hl=vtora), в разных смыслах
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Date: 2008-08-23 07:44 pm (UTC)У Волобуева мало что поняла-) он, как раз, тот самый "умный". Это кино не для анализа, что там анализировать? вот они и злятся.
Английская статья очень хорошая. Вообще, я после "Свини" только и заметила, НАСКОЛЬКО разный культурный уровень у наших и забугорных критиков. :( Раньше не хотела в английском ковыряться.
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Date: 2008-08-25 10:24 am (UTC)Музыки вообще не слышала. Не помню совсем её.
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Date: 2008-08-25 01:10 pm (UTC)С набором саундбайтов смешно кстати. Леджера же по хронометражу совсем не мало. Просто он так стянул все одеяло на себя, что на других и смотреть не хочется. "Он говорит мало, но хочется, чтобы он сказал еще" (с)
А вообще ерундой мы занимаемся. Лучше лишний фильм посмотреть, или хоть на улицу пойти, чем читать разных товарищей. Правда, с Волобуевым дьявол в том, что он, собака, хорошо пишет.
на улицу пойти
Date: 2008-08-25 06:09 pm (UTC)Привет тебе, мой исчезнувший друг!
Re: на улицу пойти
Date: 2008-08-27 09:50 pm (UTC)я не то чтобы радикально появился, но все-таки
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Date: 2008-09-01 07:14 pm (UTC)Смотри, вот тут люди тоже с юмором подошли )))