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Re: The 8-step "Secret" Hollywood Formula

Thank you Bambi, interesting observations regarding the Salo. I think I am going to agree with you that it is unfortunately to large degree done at conscious level, or as you put it plot-driven. There is not much the characters contribute to its development either, they are merely pawns in that game. That is not surprising given the film's and its creator's history, and to a large degree it is the result of the deteriorating ego. However, I suspect that just the two types outlined by you are not going to cover all cases, and the marvel of Salo lies not really in its plot, and most certainly not in acting, but in the atmosphere that only a great director can create. So in essence it becomes a director-driven film.

As I said, to me its plot was shocking and unforgettable, but far more so was the almost unbearable atmoshpere of horror without exit, without end. For instance, Salo was the only film that I remember where I closed my eyes for an instant, as the suffering had truly reached the hight that was too much for any human being to handle - the moment when they scalp the victim.

We had all seen attempts at presenting horror on screen - from adolescent Friday the 13th to the pretentious yet flat Apocalypse Now (its ending where the horror... horror... narration failed to produce well, horror) and Saving Private Ryan, we all had seen guts open and blood gush, and that stuff usually doesn't move a muscle in out bodies. So how did Pasolini manage to make me recoil in shock? It was the thick atmospere of REAL horror that only a true artist could create.

And since then, whenever I try to create the sence of utmost horror in my mind, I always envisios the Death Dance that only Pasolini, with his ultimately perverted and perhaps too conscious mind, could create.

And to support this I would once again mention the Konchalovsky's segment in Lumiere and Company, where there was no plot and no actors, yet the director simply painted a masterpiece with nothing more than just a camera angle and its position... or so it seems.



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