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manintheplanet

Wild Strawberries

Aug 01, 2005 00:11

Nothing's really happened this weekend or since the last update or whenever. I've got over my fear of driving the work van. If you know my vehicle, you'll know that it's a small car that I can handle with ridiculous ease. The work van is a monstrousity. However, I drove it to Russellville (about 30 minutes each way), and worked it out. Then ( Read more... )

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lyncheraserhead August 3 2005, 18:41:04 UTC

Just a note on Gallo and editing in general: most movies don't really have fancy editing. The art of editing is really in the flow of the story I think. I mean, when do you normally see things with crazy edits? Requiem...La Jetee...it doesn't happen very often. Maybe I didn't understand what you meant though. I just never think of editing needing to be really fancy and awesome, just edited so the story flows and it doesn't lose focus and whatnot. The art of the editor in storytelling is why I don't generally go for director's cuts. They seem to be demeaning to the editor which is a huge process in filmmaking. If the filmmaker wants to edit his own film, he can be his editor or have final cut (such as Lynch and most big names)...but yeah...anyway...

Clarification manintheplanet August 6 2005, 06:20:23 UTC

I know editing is just the means of keeping the flow going in a film. I guess what I meant to say was that the techniques Gallo used broke that flow for me. And not all of them, either. Just the ones where the little picture-in-picture would pop up in the middle of the screen. Those seemed to needlessly complicate things in my opinion, so I enjoyed it less. But it was his call. Also, I was under the impression that director's cuts were to get around studio requirements and things of that nature. Not a way to undermine the editor. But that was just my view of them. I'm still a fan. Also, did you watch Kanal yet? Is it a seperate film or would I have to see the first in the Wajda trilogy to fully get it? Thanks and later.

Re: Clarification lyncheraserhead August 7 2005, 04:39:41 UTC

Ahh, on the editing. I had forgotten about those, but I would still defend it, I guess. It was just Gallo wanting to be different than most regular films. He is pretensious as hell (note that in the early 90's he decided to stop painting after negative reaction at a show, decided the world could not handle his art) but I love him none the less. Brown Bunny is coming soon ( ... )