John Dankworth

John Dankworth

  • Born: 1927-9-20
  • Height:
  • Extended Reading
    • Antonio 2022-01-20 08:01:41

      The master and servant dialectics of sex and power

      Both Pinter and Losser are artists who are very sensitive to the power, class status, and money in interpersonal relationships. The character structure of the classic movie "The Servant" they collaborated is very reminiscent of "Apple" because they both involved the relationship of desire between...

    • Lukas 2022-01-20 08:01:41

      Dramatic and cinematic

      Drama and cinema are regarded as incompatible by many modern film art masters and modern film critics. "The Servant" is a strong counter-evidence. The collaboration between the theater master Pinter and the film master Rossi also gives it a high degree of drama and cinematic quality, both of which...

    • Julie 2022-03-27 09:01:19

      Photography's control of space and mirror images filled the house with all kinds of tension. The servant seized the master's opportunity from the first sight, and the uncontrolled master-servant relationship later started from this. In the second half of the story, I probably don't know how to end it, and it's a bit unsatisfactory to just go straight to the end.

    • Devon 2022-03-23 09:03:09

      What makes it better than Parasite is that The Servant makes good use of spatial ambiguity, where a London residence is confused for an Anglicized interior section because it is both a residence and a nightclub-cum-nightclub. Prison - When Tony's ideal room gradually becomes a cell, every corner of the house is handed over to Barratt to rule; the master is trapped in the house, from upstairs to downstairs, the servants are the prison guards. The staircase serves as a secret key location (can it be used in "Parasite"?) traverses the entire film, approaching the center of the power exchange, and it is not until the scene where the master and servant throws the ball to each other that it becomes a simile and subtle.

    Related articles

    The Servant quotes

    • Tony: Do you want to go there?

      Susan: Where?

      Tony: The jungle.

      Susan: No. Not now.

      Tony: Not now.

      [kisses her]

    • Susan: What do you want from this house?

      Hugo Barrett: Want?

      Susan: Yes. Want.

      Hugo Barrett: I'm just the servant, miss.

      Susan: Get my lunch.