There's a lot of resistance to 1980s cinematographic tricks, like Vaseline-ing the lens, and various lighting patterns, which I used to notice all the time in students of mine under a certain age. The hope is that they can eventually train themselves to simply filter them out and accept a piece for its content (structure included) rather than its execution, and this may well--if unfortunately--not happen until long after the film would have been most effective as a commentary on puberty/boys/wolves of every possible stripe.
Then again, I still can't get over the fact that in Danse Macabre, Stephen King admits he just couldn't stop thinking about how the original Cat People was obviously shot on a soundstage, to the extent that it destroyed his appreciation for the film completely. Intellectually, he knew that there was no technical way Val Lewton could have done a night location shoot at the time, but it didn't matter. For Jordan, OTOH, shooting soundstage was a calculated choice, and it mainly pays off...mainly.;)
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Date: 2009-12-23 07:05 am (UTC)Then again, I still can't get over the fact that in Danse Macabre, Stephen King admits he just couldn't stop thinking about how the original Cat People was obviously shot on a soundstage, to the extent that it destroyed his appreciation for the film completely. Intellectually, he knew that there was no technical way Val Lewton could have done a night location shoot at the time, but it didn't matter. For Jordan, OTOH, shooting soundstage was a calculated choice, and it mainly pays off...mainly.;)