I was listening to Illeana Douglas's podcast "I Blame Dennis Hopper" where she spoke about Martin Scorsese's longtime editor. Their stance...continuity is for shit. I've heard this before, in terms of John Cassavetes. But it got me thinking about the filmmaking standards we...who make movies, tend to focus on that in the end...really don't matter.
For instance, color correction. Many times, a colorist will break themselves hoping to get the perfect match between shots. This is about not taking audience out of movie. They smooth out edits so that it feels like one continuous scene. In Scorsese's world, none of that matters.
And...it does seem like a lazy cop-out to say this. Since Scorsese deals with DeNiro who does something different when the inspiration hits him. But, it also got me thinking..."yeah, what the fuck difference does it make anyway?" People know they are watching a movie. Movie staples are throughout the movie itself (such as having a conversation, then editing it so that the conversation continues elsewhere). This is film language that we all became aware of and accepted. Like match cutting a cleaver coming down on someone, only to cut to a woman in some parade screaming. It was a way to cover up violence but still shorten time in a film.
I get it. The technical is so very obsessed about. Why I hate David Fincher movies.
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