Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Irony of fate
After finishing the movie Irony of fate, it made me realize that Russian cinemas are much different then American cinemas. through out the movie they did not change the scenery much if at all, the hole movie toke place either in Nadyas home or outside of it. In American cinemas they try to stay away from having just one scene, they try to make it seem like the actors are going to different places in short amount of times. Another big thing you will notice in the difference of Russian to American cinema, American cinemas use more of a non diegetic music, but with Russian cinemas them seem to stray towards diegetic music. All in all i feel that the movie was a good movie, a little different then what I'm use to, but it still caught my attention.
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While of course not all Russian films limit their action to such a relatively few number of locations--nor do they all employ such a large amount of diegetic music, there still is very much to what you suggest.
ReplyDeleteThe different ways scenes were set up was what caught my attention the most. In American films, I feel like they cut to another scene abruptly because they are trying to tell the story all at once, so it is all very fast pacing. In Russian cinema, I have noticed they won't skip to another scene until the characters get the message/diologue out in one specific scene. I think the reason why Russian cinemas are more lengthy is so they can create some kind of development to the story and the connection between the characters.
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