BEYOND FACES
Hitchcock wrote that; ''Everything in
cinema 'begins with the actor's face.'' This can clearly be seen in many kind
of Hitchcock' s movies. Beyond of Hitchcock's usage of faces, many styles,
meanings and feelings can be inferred.
Face is the main part of an actor's
body that audience's most attention is firstly on the actor's faces during the
movie. Hitchcock has been used this on a very clever way that by using faces he
reflects many kind of emotions, he sometimes gives clues about narration and
actor's psychological approach and he develops technics. His close-up's on
faces emphasizes these. Because of close up, actors should be careful about
their actings that minimal acting mistakes are even can be seen obviously. So,
sometimes actors minimalize their actings. Sometimes, the max amount of emotional
power is achieved despite of this minimal amount of facial gesture. Narrative
sequence, style and camera's position are a few of the reasons. Juxtapositions
of facial pictures with silent can
result in Hitchcock's one of the favorite style called 'Pure Cinema' . In Pure
Cinema, many meanings can be inferred from a few pictures.
Close-up's to faces with
black&white associates with the neorealism wave in such a way that this
wave includes the minimalist pictures belongs to realism. Not only the characteristics
of Italian neorealism can be seen in Hitchcock's close-ups, but also, Andre
Bazin's realistic editing style can be seen. In Notorious, the kissing scene
happens among a long take. This
scene is like, there is an improvisation btw the actors. On the other side, if Eisenstein's editing style is considered, close ups can break down a film and it can be hard to catch the exact
emotions of combined scenes. However, Hitchcock likes to use decoupage and this
helps to provide the feeling of continuity. This technic keeps the audience's
interest constantly.
One of the remarkable reason of being
popular the Hitchcock's close ups is that the beauty of female actresses are worth
to be watched. The mouth,eye are being shot in very attractive and erotic way.
The producer David O. Selznick writes that “Every beautiful shot of Bergman's
is a great deal of money added to the returns on the picture and I urge Mr.
Kern and Mr. Ratoff to start to
work on a list of where re-take close-ups might be made''.
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