CHAPTER 16
THE HUMAN VANTAGE OF CINEMATIC LANGUAGE
Early in this section I said that the director is an unseen presence through whose creative intelligence we perceive unfolding events and who is palpably alert to their significances, meaning, and ironies. To be successful, a director must never forget that the written story and acted performances must bear a relationship and resonance with lived human experience, and that our visual technique must do so as well.
The camera’s verisimilitude and tried-and-true editing patterns can make events unfold on the screen as naturally and inevitably as a rose blossoming in June. Newcomers assume that cinema’s equipment, processes and techniques are the alchemy that does this. But film ...
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