Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After this opening monologue, our narrator turns to two heavy doors which crash open and immediately reveal Henry's world. The mood is intensely somber and filled with dark foreboding, lit only by sideline torches. The young king is captured in a magnificent silhouette by the camera as it surges forth to meet him. All the pride and glory of the English kings is captured by the sweep of the camera as it passes along the dark eyes of conniving Archbishops, corrupt nobles and toady servants, all fixed upon the image of Henry on the throne...
...creature and his creator wrestle in a mesmerizing but awkward dance through the laboratory, slick with the creature's birth fluid. Branagh's interpretation of the Frankenstein story is thematically sound and visually arresting, though often gruesome. Yet its director/star/co-producer is never able to wrestle the film, its camera or script into a graceful waltz...
...cinematography of the film is beautifully rendered. The camera is a living, prowling creature of the inner and outer English lanscape. Interior shots are filmed in warm, sepia-toned pigments that highlight the humanity, as well as the coarseness, of English life. Similarly, the film-maker captures the indifferent cruelty--tooth and claw--of nature with cold, harsh shots. From the panoramic sweets, the camera always returns to the pockmarked faces of individuals in the crowd. This is a living portrait of England, from the impoverished riff-raff to the royal...
...interior moods, although, upon occasion, it borders on the cliched. Yet, it's easy to get caught up in the intensity of the wild overtures and become reflective when the somber melodies herald the doom of war. The music becomes a character as it shapes, together with the camera, the intensity of the moments...
...could only get worse. A projection camera displayed images of SHis Shaqness doing some pretty pathetic karate moves...