Post by anthonyrocks on Apr 16, 2018 14:24:42 GMT
Duel was a project.
Rope was a project in using a limited amount of cameras and angles.
Guts began by making the main character appear to be an outsider with an appearance of doing good, but then we find he is the insider doing evil, and there's a switch between usual positive progressive Shatner and usual red neck trouble maker Leo Gordon.
That Machiavellian piece led me to PRINCE OF FOXES, in which we get the opposite of Machiavellian ideology, as Tyrone Power plays a man the opposite of the prince, a man who on the surface looks to do evil, but inwardly seeks to do good.
THERE WILL BE BLOOD is one of the two "point of view" switches. Most people overlook what to me is most obvious. Generally, we follow the heroic characters, or the ones with victory, such as Arness in the McCahons, McArthur in Swiss Family Robinson, those Calloways, and others. Here, those characters are represented by the only people we never see, the hold out family that emerges heroic. Instead, we get the various antagonists and victims.
SOUTHERN COMFORT is a complete "point of view" theme. Notice that the story is told by the two survivors. Had the two survivors been the red neck duo of Stuckey and Reese, we'd have a more macho story with Hardin and Spencer portrayed as traitors. If it was the corporal and Simms, they'd be depicted as the two cool heads. If it was the other two, it would be more of a bromance of black man-white man evolving.
It was (and still is) a GREAT and AWESOME Movie.