Word: viewers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chantal Akermanstars as a young woman alienated and abandoned,who struggles from the solitary "je" (I) in thefirst section through a casual but tenderencounter with "il" (He) in the second andculminating in the passionate embrace of "elle"(She) in the third. "Tu" (you) is the viewer...
...difference is choice. The only choice a filmgoer or TV viewer has is to walk out or turn off. Even Star Tours and Universal Studios' Back to the Future ride are, at heart, drive-in movies; you're just driving in a car with no shock absorbers. VR, which lets you wander at will through a force field or minefield, offers a democracy of entertainment. As VR programmer Randal Walser wrote, "The filmmaker says, 'Look, I'll show you.' The spacemaker says, 'Here, I'll help you discover...
Many jokes are made about Mike's unfamiliaritywith the show's routines. None of the viewer mailis for him, and he doesn't know that Tom Servo,the gumball machine robot, needs to be carriedinto the movie because he doesn't have any legs...
...watched by a guardian angel. During an Easter parade the camera looks upwards, circling around the massive crosses to emphasize their grandeur. Fellini then once again switches to following Gelsomina's passage through the crowd from above, placing her frailty in relation to God's looming presence. Often the viewer feels a sort of detached sadness constructed by the camera's eye. The montage of images follows the characters' soul-searching hauntingly. Fellini alternates this scrutinizing view of humanity with wide-angle sweeps of the Italian landscape. Windswept clouds and field lend a barren quality to the story's background...
...brilliant opening scene, appropriately set in a movie theater, sets up the strange dialectic between fact and fiction when Dr. Petiot, unimpressed by the evil of the vampire on screen, mutters his disapproval: "This is ridiculous and clumsy." As the camera freezes the doctor's shadow, the viewer is invited to compare the distorted figure of the bug-eyed vampire to the well-groomed physician. Castles and cauldrons are not the doctor's style. He jumps on to the stage and into the screen to show us how real evil works...