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| richfed |
Posted - March 24 2004 : 04:55:20 AM
how does the lighting and scene selection lead to the love story and Romanticism in the movie?
Question asked in an E-mail. Thought you all could answer better than I could ... |
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| Jo |
Posted - April 09 2004 : 12:54:17 PM
Theresa,
Well, we'll become the Island Fort Group; because when I watch the video/DVD I still am amazed/bewildered wheither I can see it on the land or the island....which is why I question the basic question: how does lighting affect the love story: when you can't see the same items in a movie as others? when you know that big old "moonlight" in the buriel scene was a huge spotlight up on a crane? Maybe it would be good not to know EVERYTHING...but then, I wouldn't be here if I didn't want to know how exactly the film was made...
What ever happened to that original questioner? STill wondering?
Jo |
| Theresa |
Posted - March 24 2004 : 9:16:18 PM
Hey Jo! GAWD! I'm so glad to know that somebody else always thought the fort was on the island rather than to the left up that hill. It took a trip out to Lake James itself and some real convincing from Rich and some really careful looking when we watched the movie on the big screen to prove it to me....this, of course, has nothing to do with this topic so consider me "Off Topic Theresa".. |
| Jo |
Posted - March 24 2004 : 4:30:40 PM
I agree with all that wilderness Woman has said; especially in the burial ground scene - that "moonlight" on Hawkeye and Cora is very "stirring" to anyone, I would think; however; not to get off topic; if you had the "old" copy of the VHS, it is so dark that most "lighting" scenes are buried in the dark print. I know there has been many a discussion of DVD's and VHS's and machines, etc...but when viewing the DVD finally; so many scenes were "lighted" when before, to me they were in complete darkeness. I always thought the Fort was on the "island"; I NEVER saw the fort up on the screen until the DVD version; as well as the sunset during the Messager scene; and on and on. It is hard for me to believe Michael Mann may have let the movie be so dark on my version of the VHS; but then, he probably didn't know or was long gone from the loop.
There was a director's series on TV that the old hubby found was Micahel Mann and his thoughts on his movies. He talked on LOTM and it was very intersting...he didn't mention the lighting; but he DID mention that he thought the book was a terrible read...with this I do agree.
Off Topic...
Jo |
| Wilderness Woman |
Posted - March 24 2004 : 08:19:05 AM
Alrighty then... I'll take a stab here.
First, the lighting. We all know just how much lighting can contribute to a scene or storyline in any movie. Even the colors of the lighting can make a difference: dark, bluish lighting in a dismal prison scene... bright, natural, sunny daylight for a happy, pleasant outdoors scene... and of course the old cliche of a nighttime thunder and lightening storm for a scary scene.
As for LOTM, the lighting was amazing. We have all discussed how the director used the dim but rich, warm, glowing lighting to simulate firelight or candlelight in several scenes: Cameron's cabin, the confrontation at the fort between Col. Munro and our three heroes (the one that looks like an old painting), and, of course, the interior of the fort during my favorite scene... "prelude to a kiss." But the scene that probably really began the romance between Cora and Hawkeye was the moonlit scene in the burial ground. How much more romantic can you get? Moonlight!
As for the scene selection... I think that all of the scenes I just mentioned contribution to the whole Romanticism aspect, in a broader sense than just the "love story" romanticism. In fact, I really feel that every scene in the movie did this. After all, that's why it is so perfect, yes?
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