Word: lange
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...then Alyosha in his rimless glasses and his gold brocade with the purple feathers for an instant became again the Melvin Lang from Rockaway, CP and son of CP, he had been in another incarnation. "WE AWAIT WITH JOY THE WITHERING AWAY OF THE MASTER," he in toned. Then, taking Sam's big hands in his own and stroking their backs intimately, Alyosha said, "Come to Mexico with us Sam, and see if I can wither away...
...keeping frame elements in fixed proportions, he creates a symbiotic force between camera and car, physically drawing the car forward or in some cases impellingthe camera, depending on the shot. Given over to exercises, as in these scenes, Antonioni's tracking camera lacks moral force as one finds in Lang's films and Godard's, but refreshingly the control maintained robs the typical American highway sequence of its customary thrust and sense of car-tantamount-to-wild-per-sonal-liberation...
...Lang's tracking shots are unique. They never try to penetrate a situation, reach an open space, or leave people behind. They all are stopped. They end confronting people. They do not show ways to get free of real dilemmas. But while they move in on people they do not flatten and simplify the situation. Each track's last frame has as much depth as its first. What this signifies is that tracks, single drives pushing in one direction cannot on the one hand reduce the complexity of a situation, and cannot on the other hand salve the situation...
THIS FORMAL analysis implies essential truths about the evolving situation of the protagonists. Lang is commonly called an Expressionist director who loves to trap characters in fate-filled plots. This view ignores Lang's persistent them of evidence of perception of the man who learns about the situation in which he is caught...
...romantic presumptions of Lang's heroes push them against others' survival. Whether Greek heroes or ordinary Jose, they are drawn gradually into a world in which every act is connected to every other. But this world is society, whose interconnections Lang develops more realistically than fatalistically...