Joe watches too many movies. He grew up in central Washington, earned his B.A. in Education and Fine Art, an M.A. in Theology and currently works in the printing industry. During school, he fit in a few film classes. He is interested in writing, theology and hopes to one day compose the ultimate Joe Versus the Volcano commentary track.
Melissa has a B.A. in History and an M.A. in English with an emphasis on Film Studies. She has taken classes on everything from silent to romance to post-colonial films and much in between. Her research and interests lie mainly in feminist film theory, women in film, Hitchcock and the studio era. At the end of the day, however, she just loves films; from Notorious to Die Hard!
Tue, 12 December 2006  "Edward who?" you may ask. Edward Zwick, of course. He's the guy who just released the under-performing Blood Diamond and some other films you may have seen. Does The Last Samurai sound familiar? How about a little Civil War drama called Glory? Well, if you still have questions, listen to this episode as we discuss Zwick, a television mentality, and that famous rice liquor, sake. Plus, we'll still have our Ten Quiz.Theme by Deerfoot (at ilovedeerfoot.com) Other music by Epic Hero (at orangebetty.com) (Next show: Directors to watch - December 26) Comments[47] |
Hey guys, I enjoyed the show, and I was glad to see Edward Zwick getting some attention. He's quite the elusive figure and is basically one of those directors who just really lets his films speak for themselves.
I agreed with you guys on how sometimes his shot compositions are very "TV Movie like", in that he'll shoot a lot of medium to medium-closeup shots. But it's really turned into a style of his own, since his films are character driven (with characters who are usually truly products of their environment) I think he feels that all our attention should be turned onto that character at that moment. If anything, his film, for me, call back to the old style of epic filmmaking. The likes of "Lawrence of Arabia" or "Ben Hur", all films that don't give in to flashy camera movements, but rather let us as an audience observe what's going on.
He does have a knack for getting very cinematic sometimes though. When I think of a Zwick film, certain shots, achieved with a locked down camera, usually come to mind. Especially the shot from "Glory", of when the regiment is marching on the beach with white regiments on both sides of them saluting. There's a shot of the entire scene up above, with the beach in the background and the flags whipping around in the foreground, really creating a scope of how brave these men were.
As you could probably tell, "Glory" is one of my favorite films ever, but really, it would be nothing without it's genius score.
I agreed with you guys on how sometimes his shot compositions are very "TV Movie like", in that he'll shoot a lot of medium to medium-closeup shots. But it's really turned into a style of his own, since his films are character driven (with characters who are usually truly products of their environment) I think he feels that all our attention should be turned onto that character at that moment. If anything, his film, for me, call back to the old style of epic filmmaking. The likes of "Lawrence of Arabia" or "Ben Hur", all films that don't give in to flashy camera movements, but rather let us as an audience observe what's going on.
He does have a knack for getting very cinematic sometimes though. When I think of a Zwick film, certain shots, achieved with a locked down camera, usually come to mind. Especially the shot from "Glory", of when the regiment is marching on the beach with white regiments on both sides of them saluting. There's a shot of the entire scene up above, with the beach in the background and the flags whipping around in the foreground, really creating a scope of how brave these men were.
As you could probably tell, "Glory" is one of my favorite films ever, but really, it would be nothing without it's genius score.
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I just wanted to let you both know I enjoyed the podcast on Edward Zwick enourmously. I have to admit, to my shame, that he flew under my rader and I wasn't as up to speed on his body of work as I should have been. It's intereting that he sets these very personal stories against the backdrop of world conflict while at the same time making sure that he stands in the background, nondescript, too self a facing to take a stylistic bow and so remains under many peoples radar.
My first thoughts flew to Micheal Curtiz and Casblanca. Here too was a very personal story told against the backdrop of a world at war where the transformation of the main charatcer seems to be the key to winning the war. Yet Curtiz also stands in the shaddows, like Zwick, letting the story take the spotlight. Keeping his stylistic flairs to character enhancing lighting and ensemble acting.
My first thoughts flew to Micheal Curtiz and Casblanca. Here too was a very personal story told against the backdrop of a world at war where the transformation of the main charatcer seems to be the key to winning the war. Yet Curtiz also stands in the shaddows, like Zwick, letting the story take the spotlight. Keeping his stylistic flairs to character enhancing lighting and ensemble acting.
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