Word: visualizer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting the sergeant again, and the often unrealistic tenor of the dialogue, in which peasant women tend to talk in profound concepts of duty, etc., when isolated seem corny. But the situation can hold the actors in such a tension of dramatic excellence, and the film as a visual whole exerts such a physical impact, that the inherent melodrama and sentimentality blur into unimportance...
...occasional attempts to introduce visual fire to her performances, she inclines to what one critic called "the battering-ram approach." This was noticeable again in her Chicago Butterfly, in which, after committing suicide, she flung the knife resoundingly to the floor and died somewhat grotesquely, crawling the width of the stage in response to Pinkerton's thrice-called "Butterfly!" But her real failing, say her harshest critics, is not one of stagecraft but of emotional involvement. While some observers recall her on the verge of tears after a performance of Butterfly, others remember her picking herself up after...
...improved in recent years-most noticeably in her mastery of an imaginatively conceived and many-faceted Aïda. Now slimmed down from what she called her troppo robusta dimensions ("I lose 25 pounds in three years!"), she is better able to cope with bantam-sized tenors and the visual realities of such consumptive roles as Mimi and Violetta...
Further hindrances are the lighting and photography, both of which give the movie such a limited visual appeal that it seems highly unreal. Also the use of subtitles upon an often white background sometimes makes it difficult to follow the dialogue...
...concluding tide of coronation music as the sponsoring firm is identified -are familiar to every schoolboy who has slumped, bored but gratefully relaxed, through a reel or two of respite from the chore of learning. High school science teachers have tolerated these technological travelogues presumably because they are "visual aids to education," and the phrase sounds up-to-date; college science profs have ignored them almost completely...