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In Reply to: Prosperos Books, an adaptation of The Tempest posted by grinagog on June 4, 2005 at 16:59:10:
Greenaway is a hard sell for lots of people.I love this particualr movie, not only for the imagery, but for the pure pleasure of hearing Sir JG speak WS.
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It is interesting that I generally love Greenaway, but feel he is prone to overdoing certain things. Thick imagery, like all strong emotion producing elements, should be done in tasteful moderation, and that part was missing, I thought.
Greenaway isn't interested in "tasteful". He's also not particularly interested in plot or conventional storytwlling. (Which is OK with me, since that's ALL nearly everybody else is interested in doing.)He's a formalist/constructionist. Prospero's Books and Pillow Book are almost like bookends - both explore PG's obsession with text, symbolism, imagery, numbers, form and transformation. I don't think he's done nearly anything as interesting to me since.
For this reason he will forever remain in the second echelon of movie makers - those with a promise but never time to polish their creations. Movie art requires that the director masters more than one element of it, and this is where he falls behind. He is one of the masters of shock imagery... well, that is good start. Yes, form falls under the same umbrella. But his philosophy is non-existent, and his work is heavily grounded and unable to fly, it just can't spread its wings.As you know I too am not too concerned with plot, but images all by themselves are just images, not movies.
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