My theory of matching as the basic art of cinema (I don’t know a damn thing about the art of cinema):<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0So, to make a movie you need lots of people.\u00c2\u00a0 Hence, we watch credits for a really long time.\u00c2\u00a0 But to make cinema, you need lots of artists.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not into film enough to know the great costume designers or computer animators etc, and only have a superficial understanding of great actors, directors, producers.\u00c2\u00a0 But it seems to me, that\u00c2\u00a0a great movie will happen when either a bunch of artists work together or an artist coaxes the best out of a bunch of technicians.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll concentrate on the bunch of artists.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll need a writer\/screenwriter who doesn’t stink.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe a few.\u00c2\u00a0 The words usually come first, I bet.\u00c2\u00a0 You need someone to shoot the movie in a meaningful way, an interesting way.\u00c2\u00a0 If you don’t have decent actors, it will be very hard to make a good movie, so we’ll say some good actors too.\u00c2\u00a0 For some music we’ll recruit a whole sub-bunch of artists, someone to write the score and people talented enough to do it justice with thier instruments.\u00c2\u00a0 I think it’s easy to forget that it takes talent not only to write\u00c2\u00a0a score, but to play it, too.\u00c2\u00a0 Then there’s all the details I don’t know about, lighting, makeup, costume, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 But you can have all these things and still flop, if they don’t cohere.<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0The coherence comes through ‘matching’ as I understand it.\u00c2\u00a0 The power of the cinema is the ability to convey the same emotion through several coextant forms of art, making a greater art.\u00c2\u00a0 The actor, the camera, the dialog, the music- when they all come together, cinema happens.\u00c2\u00a0 Like a good band, they will each have their solos, while the other parts step back for a moment and provide the rhythm section.\u00c2\u00a0 But the overall effect is bigger than the parts.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00c2\u00a0Maybe that’s obvious, reading over it.\u00c2\u00a0 But the matching, that’s what I wanted to point out.\u00c2\u00a0 There are so many forms of art happening, and they are each carrying the same narrative, the same film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My theory of matching as the basic art of cinema (I don’t know a damn thing about the art of cinema): \u00c2\u00a0So, to make a movie you need lots of people.\u00c2\u00a0 Hence, we watch credits for a really long time.\u00c2\u00a0 … Continue reading