![]() In Sontag's words, his work always tended towards an aesthetic wherein "art is the discovery of what is necessary." A Man Escaped is an object lesson in the necessary, from the images to the voice-over, and all filmmakers would do themselves a service to study his cinema of grace and carefully chosen sound or silence. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.īresson was unique among filmmakers. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the senses in governable way. The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone ,makes the eye impatient.What is for the eye must not duplicate what is for the ear.If equal, they damage or kill each other, as we say of colors. If a sound is the obligatory complement of an image, give preponderance either to the sound or to the image.A marvellously subtle and informative account of the way the Hollywood film industry worked in its heyday and a book I wish I’d been able to write myself. A sound must never come to the help of a image, nor an image to help the of sound. The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era Thomas Schatz First published in 1988, and thus the only one of my choices not first published in the 1960s (showing my age).The ear goes more toward the within, the eye toward the outer. ![]() When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. ![]()
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