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re: The whole "uncinematic" thing

Posted by: AlanScott 12:36 am EDT 08/16/14
In reply to: re: The whole "uncinematic" thing - LegitOnce 08:47 pm EDT 08/15/14
The roadhouse sequence seems be one of the few very things they keep from Lehman's script.

I think it's possible that they might even have been better not going outside for the George-Nick scene.

Here are a other film versions of plays that work as movies (whatever that means) while hardly moving out of a single room or apartment or house:

The Homecoming
Dial 'M' for Murder
The Caretaker
The Boys in the Band

Personally, I don't really know what the word cinematic means. Some plays take easily to being opened up. Others resist it, yet can still be made very effectively into movies, without even needing fancy camera work or lots of cutting. Personally, I think lots of cutting is often more damaging than helpful.

I think it arguably requires more imagination to successfully film a play without opening it than to try to make a play into something that seems more like a conventional movie.


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