Visual archetypes. Movies use them all the time. Check out the conclusion to Breakfast at Tiffany’s. (Ignore George Peppard’s thick performance.) A wrought-iron fence creates a cage image for Cat—emphasized a minute later by Peppard speaking the word “cage” twice. Next, we have Hepburn searching for Cat in the blind alley--its also the figurative blind alley to which her life has led her. (Notice how she walks back halfway to the entrance and then stops. She cant leave until she finds what she has abandoned.) Then we have Cat doing double duty as an emerging child, squished between Hepburn and Peppard. Its an over the top fertility image, saved maybe by humour, but it gets the point across—new life, growth, hope. The camera retreats from the embracing couple in three re-framings until the lovers appear in a classic long shot. They appear reclaimed by the common life of the city, a context image. They have re-joined the world that surrounds them.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 06:05:22 +0000
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