Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT COMES together after four-and-a-half hours in the dark is a tremendous sense of Gance's technical innovations. Revolting against the dictates of the time, he sets the camera free of its confining tripod, creating a frenzy that propells history itself. To film the chase across Corsica, he straps a camera to a horse's back, and keeps pace with the lead troops. Not one image is blurred or out of focus. Before the audience, the foremost rider's horse unfolds its limbs in the rhythmical ritual of a gallop. Its nostrils flair, its hind quarters fleck...
...BEGGAR DRESSED IN TATTERS stalks on stage. The spotlight shines bleakly on him; the rest of the stage is dark. Sneering at the audience--suspicious, perhaps scornful--he spits and suddenly doubles over with a hyena-like laugh. He straightens abruptly and with a sweeping arm, signals to cut the light. His laughter echoes eerily through the darkness after he has left the stage. Ten seconds have elapsed...
...posture of international confidence? A reemergence of American morality? Naah. He sees bureaucrats running seminars on wasteful office management, secretaries seducing bosses for Elizabeth Ray-style autobiographies, and PR moguls trying to sell oppressive Latin American regimes to hick Congressmen. As long as the elite gather in dark Connecticut Ave. bistros to eat lousy steaks and exchange gossip, Buchwald will be in business, for that is his Washington...
...world that remains is dark, damp, and overgrown, peopled with primitive hunter-gatherers and horrible mutants. The language, too, has undergone a mutation: in Hoban's version of English reinvented from scratch, spelling, sentence-structure, and vocabulary have all taken on a childlike spontaniety and simplicity...
Twean lite it wer the 1st dark coming on. Bat lite it wer and dimminy the pink and red stumps glimmering in the coppises like loppt off arms and legs and the rivver hy and hymmering. The dogs wer howling nor it wernt like no other howling I ever heard it wer a kynd of wyld hoapless soun it wer a lorn and oansome yoop yaroo...