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'American Beauty is a film that has many theatrical qualities.' Discuss this statement with relation to the film and commentary by its director.
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Lauren Dellard-Lyle 10B 'American Beauty is a film that has many theatrical qualities.' Discuss this statement with relation to the film and commentary by its director. 'It's a movie and I went out of my way not to do theatre with the movie.' Despite this quote by Sam Mendes there are many techniques implied that are usually associated with the theatre. American Beauty is Mendes' first film and he has only ever done theatre before so theatrical techniques are obviously going to be instinctively interpreted in the film. Some examples of this are that he arranged a two-week rehearsal before they started filming and that the film was originally written for the stage. When making American Beauty there was a low budget, which explains why many the sets are very simplistic, calling to mind the simple sets often used in theatre productions. The colours used are quite bland although in...
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