“In a novel, one scrabbles in the dirt for motivation or stretches for decorative language to hide the lack of it. In ﬁlm, no such disguise will be tolerated by the viewer. When we watch a man do something on screen, our guts much more than our brains will tell us the truth of the gesture. It cannot be fudged.”

“In a novel, one scrabbles in the dirt for motivation or stretches for decorative language to hide the lack of it. In ﬁlm, no such disguise will be tolerated by the viewer. When we watch a man do something on screen, our guts much more than our brains will tell us the truth of the gesture. It cannot be fudged.” - Zadie Smith, 2003 by https://padlet.com/u6946053_3/ycbgvj0qz2v4pcm Please respond and test the above quote by identifying and evaluating film techniques used to communicate interiority in Fukunaga's 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre en-us 2023-08-24 01:47:45 UTC 2023-09-01 04:44:50 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4fd.png https://padlet.com/u6946053_3/ycbgvj0qz2v4pcm/wish/2680736285 - interiority better in film: puts viewer in jane's position and conveys her emotions that way
- crossroads shot: symbolism + the use of long distance shot to really hammer in how isolated she is and the magnitude of her Situation
- quote: agree with second part of quote about visceral gut feelings, disagree with first part (it's typically quite clear what characters are feeling in novels, depending on writing style - certainly in jane eyre)]]> 2023-09-01 04:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/u6946053_3/ycbgvj0qz2v4pcm/wish/2680736285