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You want to see a really superb Western? Without all the "romance?"

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In Reply to: The Big Country---- posted by patrickU on February 12, 2007 at 13:47:14:

See that Brasilian film I mentioned in the thread below.
If you like Godard, you may love it.

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Re: You want to see a really superb Western? Without all the "romance?" - patrickU 03:36:03 02/13/07 (4)
I do not like Godard.
But I am willing to revisited him, some day, soon.
Worse, I have at least forty DVD�s waiting to be seen and what?
I prefer to re-re look at the one I know by heart.
That is the beginning of the end of an old goat.
Must be.
- Rocha "isn't" Godard but, rather, employs some of his stylistic - tinear 04:50:54 02/13/07 (3)
  eccentricities.
  The camera movements are "natural" though as the camera unrelentingly moves about the scene, one is not aware of it because of the framing of the characters. It produces an amazing effect, opening up the usually "squared" frame.
  I was amazed, after hearing an interview with one of the film's principal actors, that Rocha didn't believe in multiple scene takes. He would have the actors go off to practice then call them together. He would stand beside or behind the cinematographer, calling out instructions, in turn cajoling, cursing, or complimenting: scenes were filmed in ONE take. This was the case for both Terra em Transe and the Devil and God. Amazing.
  Rocha felt that second, third, fourth takes were worthless because the actor's energy became less after the initial expenditure.
  Rocha is as much Eisenstein and Pasolini as he is Godard. In other words, he is an "original."
  - Re: Rocha "isn't" Godard but, rather, employs some of his stylistic - patrickU 06:48:49 02/13/07 (2)
    There are many way to direct.
    Some directors WANT 100 and more takes, as to " empty " the actors...
    Some don�t both schools had have oustanding result.
    As one take one roll, think of " The Rope...."--
    Nothing new under the blue, blue sky.
    - I thought Hitch loved the gazillion take approach? nt - tinear 14:21:56 02/13/07 (1)
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      - Re: I thought Hitch loved the gazillion take approach? nt - patrickU 04:49:08 02/14/07 (0)
        
        In Reply to: I thought Hitch loved the gazillion take approach? nt posted by tinear on February 13, 2007 at 14:21:56:
        
        I am not quite certain about what you are saying here.
        Hitch had a story board in his mind, put it down on paper, and that was it for him, the rest was rather boring in his mind.
        The making of " The Rope " was made in a studio who could transform itself and he film it as long the film roll could.

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