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...Tramp stands at the intersection of two assembly lines in a bakery. He comes a cropper when the fast-moving line spews cakes onto the floor after he tries to jam a giant-size one into an economy-size box. Taping the sequence required 30 takes-and 150 layer cakes...
...film resembles an intricately stitched tapestry, every new layer and angle reveals more about the lives of three generations of the Ekdahl family. And as every strand in a tapestry contributes to the overall scene, every character in the immense family structure retains his individually but it is subsumed in an intricate picture. The mystical force of the theater binds all the members of the clan together in a world of illusion...
...scenes in space were the product of highly advanced matte photography. One element of a scene, an imperial battle cruiser, for instance, would be shot. Then another element, like a rebel fighter, would be photographed and superimposed on it, as if it were another layer on a cake. Some of the shots in the final space battle had 67 such layers, one on top of the other. Says Art Director Joe Johnston: "We have to make each film better than the one previous. The public demands a special-effects extravaganza, something that will blow them away for their five dollars...
Never more so than in Hadleigh Castle, 1829. Constable brought to his view of the castle (which overlooks the Thames estuary) a pressure of melancholy: he was painting this desolate shore from memory, and his beloved wife Maria had just died of consumption. The paint is crusted, layer over layer, like mortar; even the grass and mallows in the foreground seem fossilized, and the broken tower-taller in art than in life-has an Ossianic misery to it. Then one's eye escapes to the horizon, glittering with scumbled white light, like a promise of resurrection. The whole image...
...Street sits on a bend in the road, framed by railroad tracks, warehouses and an industrial park. Inside, the mood is as grim as the dull yellow walls. Rows of double bunk beds line the dormitories. "This reminds me of Dickens," grumbles Resident David Erickson, 33, an unemployed carpet layer. Indeed, Sacramento County in northern California has borrowed a page from the English novelist and revived a 19th century solution to economic hard times: the poorhouse...