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...Fargo" opens with a lonely shot of a highway cutting across the frozen plains of the midwest. In the distance, the line of the horizon is blurred by the grey sky and snow-covered ground. This may be the only scene in the film without clearly defined visual and narrative lines. Instead a cold, dark mood takes hold. Somwhere in the distance, the Coens seem to be telling us, awful things are about to happen, and we're going to be witnesses...
...choice of locations enhances his sense of visual style. The neon-lit lobby corridor, the elevator filled with bright red lights and the rows of seats in primary colors along a downtown New York City sidewalk all complement the fast-paced script. A newspaper shop provides a wonderful locale for Lee to pit Girl 6 against a lecherous store owner...
Included in the visual aids that the University brought to the court were photos of both the interior and exterior of the Union taken the morning after the restraining order was issued...
...done around 1827, has a wiry inquisitorial line and a fierce truth to the motif that remind one, without exaggeration, of Durer. In landscape his hand roamed free, giving the foreground hill in Volterra, the Citadel, 1834, a lively splotching of indeterminate dark scrub whose excited marks carry more visual weight than the distant hill town. But his early portraits are maladroit Ingres, and he was almost incapable of bringing off large biblical or literary compositions: his late painting of Dante and Vergil menaced by the she-wolf at the edge of the Dark Wood...
...smoking anything, just a simmering stew of subdivided Ozark property without sewer lines and endless minutiae about closing costs and mortgage points. No one knows the protagonists--imagine trying to cast the pudgy David Hale, a confessed felon and owner of a failed burial insurance company. The best visual from the first Whitewater trial is already gone: the Trekkie alternate juror in Vulcan regalia. The wonder is that she was beamed...