Word: flashbacks
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...actress Claudia that she will portray an innocent girl in white who offers innocence to the hero--after such a girl (played by the same actress) has already appeared in a vision to him. In another scene the characters watch other actors audition for the roles they are playing. Flashback scenes add a third frame of references, a fourth of sorts is created by scenes which act out Guido's wishes. In one he is surrounded by a harem of doting women who cater to his every wish; in another a carping critic mouthing platitudinous attacks on the film...
...used the flashback technique in Salesman, but in his new work he has gone far beyond this. The play's action takes place entirely "in the mind, thought, and memory of Quentin," who is never off stage for an instant. Everything is ruled by what Quentin remembers, as he remembers it. Miller has put the mind's eye on the stage. In the mind, the past and the present are coetaneous. Thus the play does not flow chronologically. Quentin's thoughts dart back and forth with lightning speed. The characters, whether mute or speaking, move into and out of focus...
...landscape by Salvador Dali. First off, the boys light up a 12-ft. stack of logs-to boil a can of soup. Then they go jeeping across an open field in pursuit of a terrified farmer-whom they try to lasso. And all the while they recollect in flashback the crazy things they did while they were courting-like, say, the time Leo peeled a banana, slipped it in the breast pocket of Jack's best suit, gave him a hearty slap on the chest...
...flashback it appears that Alex, the boxer, killed an opponent in the ring. But later it turns out that his victim may have been a prostitute who humiliated him or a homosexual whom he feared...
...sued him for "unprofessional conduct" during the filming. At the same time (1955) the critical Cahiers du Cinema proclaimed it one of the best movies ever made. Up to the finale, I would be inclined to agree with the Cahiers critics, in spite of the weakness in acting and flashback technique. But the whimper ending, which could so easily have been worked into a bang, drops it from the sublime to the extraordinary...