Word: realism
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...couple of weeks like that." Hence, there are seemingly endless bull sessions between cast and producer to work out better dialogue and clearer confrontations between characters. One day Haynes vehemently announced: "These scenes are so far away from reality! There's no attempt to get any sort of realism in the dialogue between the black actors." Result: there's more realism...
...Russian-born master of Abstract Expressionism, whose monumental canvases, aglow with rectangles of floating color, were exquisite in their simplicity; by his own hand (slashed wrists); in his Manhattan studio. The son of an immigrant Russian pharmacist, Rothko developed his talent with virtually no formal training, progressing from realism through Surrealism to his own version of abstractionism. Line, subject, perspective-all were gone. "You have nothing here but content," he once said, in describing his style of running colors together to produce the impression of shimmering motion from an almost totally static form. Recognition was long in coming...
Giant Step. Nixon's message, of which Kissinger is the principal author, defines global objectives for the coming decade. Further, it treats the subject as a whole instead of a collection of separate problems. And it does so in a cool tone that allows realism to outweigh verbal flourishes. Nixon emphasizes not isolation, but rather more credible involvement. Thus he takes a qualified step back from the doctrine of almost automatic intervention in hemispheric affairs that drew the Johnson Administration into the Dominican Republic, a giant step from John Kennedy's rhetorical commitment to intervene anywhere in defense...
...that now seem literarily familiar: drinking together before death; discovering love with an unknown girl; revealing the news of a husband's death to a woman who has taken up with another man; suddenly discovering that one's arms have been blown off. Yet Boll's realism, touched with irony and occasional moments of lyricism, has preserved freshness of emotion. "I was alone in this town," one lost soldier recalls, "the sky hovering overhead like a soundless dirigible that was about to crash." Instead of settling to a level of cliche...
Lang's presentation of social facts and events is equally direct. Lang says he tells his cameramen to give him nothing fancy, just "newsreel photography." The compositions of Fary, however, go beyond realism to present situations so explicitly that they verge on symbolic caricature, as in Eisenstein. We are repeatedly struck by shots of the raving lynch mob, Tracy, and the defendants looking into the camera. Even more powerful are the shots wherein the camera tracks right in on characters, or equivalently where characters run almost into the camera, then stop...