Word: technicolor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kids, if you act now, you can thrill to the widescreen, Technicolor destruction of the Nazi fuel depot as millions of gallons of burning petrol light up the sky. There hasn't been so much oil on the screen since the last closeup of Elvis Presley's hair...
These feminine images, however explicit, are not pornographic to him. "Woman is bursting her corsets," says Lindner, "like a prehistoric animal cracking the egg and getting out." So he portrays women bulging explosively from their clothing, like Technicolor knackwurst. They tease rather than please...
Between them, the foursome manages to get through the piece roughly as written-with a few soppy sequences thrown in to justify everyone's moral lapses. The more sparkling passages, alas, lie smothered under Hollywood's big-screen Technicolor treatment. The tone is too strident, the color too bright, the running around from rooftop cafes to picturesque playgrounds too aimless...
HITCHCOCK: That was a bad horse on a treadmill. The process in back of her was made on the actual field. It was made on a crane, it went that was correct. She was on a trained shot. They said when you get the final Technicolor print, it won't look like that. But they were lying. It was a bad shot...
...will photograph what you give it. It's a matter of taste. The exteriors in Torn Curtain are all diffused also. We used a grey diffusor. In fact, we did that for the whole picture in order to reduce the color even more, so that we would prevent even Technicolor from cheating us. We made the reflected light with a big sheet: a large 20 by 20 sheet on the end of the set. And the light hit the sheet of white and then bounced back into the set. Where we had any direct light on faces, it would diffuse...