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October 31, 2005
Jarhead's Mendes: visual imagery has become a trademark
Reuters' Bob Tourtellotte enjoys a moment with Sam Mendes, simplifying the stage veteran's approach to filmmaking: "When troops finally advanced into Kuwait, they found charred bodies, smoke-filled skies and black oil raining down from sabotaged wells. "Weird, surreal images all in this empty space," Mendes called them.
"Visual imagery has become a trademark of Mendes' films," Tourtellotte reveals. "His fans will remember the falling rose petals of [American Beauty] and the incessant rain in [The Road to Perdition]. Mendes captures the Marines' wartime isolation through a film bleaching process that makes colors seem bland and blurs images on the edge of the main action." [More of that sort of technical stuff at the link.]
Posted by pride at October 31, 2005 04:10 PM
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