02 Nov 2017
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Examples of Semantic Richness of Cinematic narrations, Preparation For War: Vicious (In All Too Human Way) Battle For Domination - From Ronald Neame’s “Tunes of Glory” (1960)
This semantically efficient shot with the characters of Neame’s film is not only a prelude to the plot – a kind of an exposition before “the action” will start, but something like the director’s “introductory statement” about the tragic penchant for (and pathological fixation of our species on) bloody clashes as intrinsic part of human […]