Word: realistes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scriptwriters aren't the only guilty parties; visual and dramatic direction usually is worse. There's this aesthetic, if you want to dignify it with that name, going around, American audiences accept it because it has a vague respectability-by-association with Neo-Realist methods. This "aesthetic" says that instead of enlivening a slow script with some action and character development, the director should exploit its opportunities for pointless camera essays. Bullitt is an apt example. All scenes last unbearably long because Peter Yates, its "director," didn't know what to do with a slick script except stretch its banality...