Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth and wholesomeness. The slow pace of the film and the dialogue is evocative of small-town Southern life. Often the detail is excrutiating. By the end of the film, the audience probably remembers a few too many colorful, tacky items of merchandise for sale at Chamber's. The camera often drags and makes us impatient with this meticulous attention to detail. When we see Mike's library, the camera pauses too long at the bookshelves and overemphasizes the point that pleasure-reading is a new concept for Ruby...
...major reason for Clinton's promise to restore democracy in Haiti is the intensely negative reaction that most Americans direct toward immigration--and especially toward the huddled masses of Haitian refugees. Perhaps the most conspicuous sign of the influence public opinion wielded was the presence of reporters and camera operators at the first landing of Navy SEALs on the Somali shore. Either the brass or the Bush Administration--it's still not clear which--must have considered good p.r. as important as the integrity of the operation...
Ryan, who is used to dogging Crimson photographers, turned away from the camera, at first slowly. He then got more impatient. "Come on, stop taking pictures," he said twice...
...film is very much like a painting; when the man is sitting in the drawing room at the beginning of his arrival, the camera follows his gaze around the room, much as our eyes would be led across a canvas of an impressionist work. The pastels of the women's clothing pass by in a whir as the camera focuses in upon the countenances of the people. The light is soft and the cinematography draws attention to the details of the men's starched white shirts and meticulously coiffed hair. Because the camera dwells upon the details of the guests...
...camera is also used to create painted images in later scenes, which focus upon the man's absorption in Tadzio's beauty. When the little boy and his family are praying in church, the camera stops to frame his face by the candles and the alter. The result is that we don't feel that we are gazing at a photographic image, but at a painting. This in turn symbolically suggests that art and its effect upon the beholder creates its own kind of reality...