Word: realism
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When one of Salter's classes studies something he has experienced as a diplomat, he tries to "bring realism to a situation and provide ingredients that others might be missing." Salter in turn gleans opinions from his fellow students on U.S. foreign policy. "As a diplomat overseas representing the American people I need to know what people think and what the trends are," he says...
Much of the film is shot to allow great depth of field, keeping both the foreground and the background of the picture in focus. This technique--pioneered by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane--is known as "deep focus." The use of deep focus lends a strong sense of realism to the film, portraying simultaneously the characters and their environment. Kusturica also imports some techniques from the genre of film noir, especially the notion of the woman-as-temptress (in this case the mistress), and the practice of photographing her image in mirrors...
...drenched fantasies he constructs for his fashion pictures. But he also knows that in taking a camera out among ordinary people, he raises expectations of more resolute truth telling. Avedon is throwing those expectations back in the viewer's face. Sometimes it takes a fashion photographer to show that "realism" is art's subtlest cosmetic...
...course, this realism works against this Godzilla-as-a-force-of-nature theme. He looks like a huge monster; he acts like a real monster. What else can we conclude but that he is a real monster? He is not some force that has sprung up to teach mankind a lesson (that man's buildings need more reinforced steel?) and then disappear when the message has been sent...
...Lange has totally changed not only her physical appearance (lucky for her that she's a natural blonde), but her voice as well, dropping it as much as two full octaves in order that her soprano speaking voice match up with Cline's whiskey-throated contralto. Unfortunately for Lange, realism in this context is more often than not equivalent to boredom--six scenes of Cline trying to pull together the threads of her life after either an out-and-out dogfight with second husband Charlie Dick (Ed Harris) or the continual drudgery of house-cleaning and motherhood are simply five...