Wednesday, January 7, 2009
The Silent Films
Well I'm looking at "The Dying Swan" and all of it's silent amazingness. Though it had no sound and like most early films little if any special effects, it was still able to capture a decent story and my attention. Though I must say it did stretch out for a bit and by the end I was just wishing that the movie would end. Overall silent films have their own appeasment value, for starters, they make the viewer focus more on whats going on and actually to me I would feel that with sound and color the movies would be completly different. Directors would have a hard time making the films in the sense that the actors really had to focus on their performance since all they had to rely on was their movements since vocal performance was unavailable.
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It may just be me, but I actually find The Dying Swan to move at a much more "modern" pace than the prior two films. In fact much of that film seems to show (at least for me) a rather marked improvement both in Bauer's artistic skills as well as the use of technology. The lighting seems crisper, the sets less cluttered and, all in all, there's more motion and less moping.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the actors almost need to perform better than modern actors. The Dying Swan was much better directed than the other silent films, in the way that the actors seemed less dramatic. This movie helps show how far acting has come.
ReplyDeleteI thought The Dying Swan was a much easier film to view. Altough some of the scenes were drawn out they were many more scences that were much shorter. I also noticed that the sets were less cluttered.
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