1915- 1002nd Ruse
The short film project 1002nd Ruse was an interesting project I bet to film. The whole idea of partners playing these games with one another, not figuring out the other one really knows whats going on and all. In some ways couples tend to do that today as they go through life and learn what makes their significant other tick and knows what they can get away with or not. I can picture my parents going to great lengths to get what they want from each other and then realizing that the other one knew all along, sit down and just laugh about it, only because they like to have fun with life and find ways to make their relationship more interesting.
A few things I noticed outside the storyline
The Chair she sat in had a fancy “L” shaped backing to it. In fact, much of the furniture pieces had that particular style. Not your usual flat backing in which to lean on, like we see today in many outlets.
At one point, the guy looked as if he was also wearing the similar dress under his coat.
Did anyone else notice things that I didn’t?
One thing I might point out is that it's very hard to lip-read what the actors in these early films are saying. That is, when their mouths move--it doesn't seem to correspond to the dialogue shown to us in the intertitles. I think this may be because of two reasons, 1) there were only so many frames per second back then, hence we're getting a broken and distorted up and down movement of their mouths when they speak or 2) the actors may have improvised dialogue in front of the camera--and then the dialogue on the inter-titles may have been added later on when the film was being put together on the editing table.
ReplyDeleteWhile the indoor shots of this film are kind of creepy--I think the outdoor shot we get of them walking along the river is really rather beautiful.