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...Every shot required different gremlins," Walas says. "We created twelve versions of Gizmo, and 14 Stripes, each used in a different closeup or for a specific movement or to express a new emotion. One gremlin had to be able to inhale and exhale cigarette smoke. Another had to throw dishes at Billy's mother, and another had to ride its skateboard through the department store. With all the rewriting of the script during production, we were making puppets until the last days of shooting...
...justice to these epics, Griffith, as much as any one man, devised the primary techniques of film. The closeup, the fadeout, cross-cutting-all developed on his set. But Schickel provides a lively argument for Griffith as poet as well as technician. Through the famous storms and battle scenes, the director seemed to be trying to find his own way back to a lost innocence...
...movie begins with a closeup of feet--bare feet, mud-covered feet, crippled feet--in short, feet in their most humble form. It then expands to show a procession of peasants trudging across a barren, almost lunar landscape of huge rocks and cracked terrain. Immediately we see that we have entered the surreal, prehistoric kingdom of Shakespeare's Lear. The next shot shows Lear's huge, imposing castle which rises suddenly and rather unnaturally out of the ground, dwarfing the peasants who in comparison look like a bunch of ants swarming on an anthill. Heightened by the effective...
Commandeering a local television station's videotape equipment, Gill and Rozier wandered the sidelines conducting mock interviews until, suddenly, through the view finder Rozier saw a stern closeup of Osborne. Gill stuck out the microphone and demanded to know, "Why have you been running up the scores?" Before OsI borne could answer, Rozier announced, "Sorry, out of film," and they raced away laughing. To be blessed with three preeminent players at once-four, including Offensive Guard Dean Steinkuhler-is an amazement to Osborne. He has that one. player coaches forever dream about, only three or four times over...
...swarm of social and personal ambiguities. The result is a well-meaning muddle that refuses to come alive. The pace is languid when it ought to fall into the march step of melodrama. Hanna K. does boast what may be a film first: an infant's circumcision, in closeup. It is not the only moment in the movie when the viewer is provoked to sit up and wince...