Thursday, April 24, 2014

Huston. ChristianScienceMonitor. 11 Aug 1973. Louise Sweeney.



John Huston by Louise Sweeney, filmcritic of theChristianScienceMonitor [whatever that means.]

London
We are sitting in a brick mews house in the middle of London, and director John Huston is giving a 30-second course in filmmaking.
“To me the perfect film is as though it were unwinding behind your eyes, and your eyes were projecting it themselves, so that you were seeing what you wished to see. It’s like thought. It’s the closest to thought process of any art.”
Mr. Huston illustrated the point in his own unique way. “Look at that lamp,” he says, pointing to a brass floor lamp halfway across the dark green room. “Now look at me. Look back at the lamp. Now look at me. Do you see what you did? [the second time.] You blinked. Those are cuts. After the first time you know that there’s no reason to pan from me to the lamp, because you know what’s in between. Your mind cuts [the scene]. You behold the lamp. And you behold me. So in cutting the scene you cut with the physiology.”

Thoughts.
Quoted in theBlinkOfAnEye byWalterMUrch.
Blink equals cut. How should I proceed to examine this thought?
Sentence equals cut. Toosimplistic?
Sentence = Blink = Cut? Veryunsatisfactory.
I won’t attempt to examine what happens inside the brain.
Blink = oneobject.closeup?
What about the each essentials of twoobjects becomes oneobject? Twowords becomes one? Fallibility of memory?
Individual difference. Onewords produces various images not exactly the sames. Oneimage produces various words not exactly the sames. But I not investigate individual difference.
Suppose. Cinémascope. Thewidestlens. Many persons are in the same frame, like twothousand. It is impossible to memorise it. The way is to save them onebyone. Then, try to make groups.
Some kind of jump is required for cut? Blink because connexion is required? No blink if no connex. is required? Or. No blink when connex. is required? Blink if connex. is required?

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