FILM 1F94 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dustin Hoffman, Konstantin Stanislavski, Chameleon
Document Summary
The relationship between dreams and reality / as well as illusion and authenticity . Formalism: an approach to filmmaking that puts greater emphasis on film form, rather than content. Form draws attention to itself, probes us to think about its construction. Fish tank, children of men, it happened one night, rear window, singin" in the. Rain, memento, the sweet hereafter, the cabinet of dr. caligari, mulholland drive. Intellectual montage: ideas and meaning emerges from the collision of images. An elliptical cut that appears to be an interruption of a single shot. Either the figures seem to change instantly against a constant background or the background changes instantly while the figures remain the same. Singin" in the rain and hollywood"s dream factory. Four types of actors: personality actors (related to actor persona , actors who deliberately play against their persona, actors who seem to be different in every role ( character or chameleon actors, non-professional actors.
