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In Reply to: "The lost art of film editing": "The entire movie is assembled in this jittery style." posted by clarkjohnsen on August 14, 2006 at 09:05:59:

...to get to cable television and dvd's, we reap what we sow. Most of the intended audience-obviously, present company excluded-can't watch anything longer that ten minutes in length without twitching or drooling. The end result in satisfying the wishes of the majority of the movie going public is cinema that imitates television. For me the worst part isn't the editing, which I think is amazingly intricate for the most part, it's the filmmaker's planned crappy cinematography. I hate hand held cinema verite-like camera operating. It's like the whole film world is an old episode of NYPD Blue. I think editors are the saviors of saveable films.

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"Crappy cinematography" can also IMO include too much Hallmarky visual malarky. - clarkjohnsen 09:33:35 08/15/06 (1)
Enough already with the beauty -- I get the picture, now give me the drama.
clark
- Yup although it depends on... - Harmonia 16:36:46 08/15/06 (0)
  ...the material and what the filmmaker is trying to say.
  Except that much too often these days they aren't saying anything or what they're saying is tired and stale. Ain't enough "there" there.
  Which is why I love watching the current work of really good DPs and editors (like Ms. Schoonmaker).
  Ain't nithing like the real thing.

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