Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 252 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
The Third Man
Kurtz tells Holly to come up and talk while he's out his window on the balcony. A shot is taken in a broad view of Dr. Winkel and Kurtz out on the balcony. The shot is broad enough to get the statues and architectual work done on the building. It's quite magnificent, these works of art. Holly goes on to tell Kurtz that he wants to talk to Harry and that he'll meet him next to the ferris wheel. He sits down adjacently next to one of the ends of the ferris wheel where the carts are hanging and in rotation. We get a shot of this from his ankles all the way up to almost the top of the ferris wheel. These are beautiful shots that capture the eye of the beholder.
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Rocheny:
ReplyDeleteExcellent notice of a great sequence. I like how you point out the use of misc-en-scene here, the way Reed is juxtaposing the high art (architecture, sculpture) w/ low art (ferris wheel, carnival).
jt
cool, I'm learning.
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