“Stazione Termini” (1953)
Curiously, Vittorio De Sica filmed this 1953 melodrama, featuring Jennifer Jones and Montgomery Clift (at their many gorgeous), and even though both are particularly good, we’d take the less-compromised “Stazione Termini” within the studio-tinkered “Indiscretion Of An American Wife” any time. Quite the Harvey Weinstein of their time, superproducer David O. Selznick spearheaded the teaming of De Sica with two U.S. movie movie movie stars, however the resulting 89-min real-time movie which views Jones as being a housewife who’s fallen in deep love with Clift’s neighborhood Giovanni and it is attempting to break it well with him, had not been at all to Selznick’s taste. Therefore he cut over 20 moments out (meaning he previously to shoot a split brief “autumn in Paris” to carry the package as much as distributable size), primarily by shearing away significant amounts of De Sica’s trademark ground-level observations. Continuar leyendo «Making storytelling that is conventional behind in favor of a lot more voiceover»