An in-depth chat about the Oscars

Laverne 2022-03-12 08:01:02

1939 is considered by many to be the greatest year in Hollywood history. It is true that just looking at the Oscar nominations this year, the star-studded list, "Gone with the Wind" sweeping the awards ceremony is an expected ending - maybe Clark · Gable failed to get the best actor disappointing some people. While we say the Oscars love mid-sized good movies, history also shows that every few years there is always a coveted mega-block crown crowned. Therefore, "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", "Exotic Mandarin Ducks", "Between Men and Mice", "The Wizard of Oz", "Flying Over Mount Guanshan", "Wuthering Heights"... each of them is a classic in the history of the shadows, but when it comes to "Oscar picture", that is really not as good as "Gone with the Wind". The emergence of lens coating technology in the late 1930s improved the light-collecting ability of the lens, making photographers dare to close the aperture and create a greater depth of field. Huang Zongzhan did this very early on. Gaudio had audaciously created exaggerated foregrounds of proportional distortion when he made "The Merry-go-round." This stylistic tendency towards wide angles and depth of field was reflected in almost half of the nominated films at the time, until Greg Toland won for Wuthering Heights.

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  • Emilie 2022-03-17 09:01:10

    When I was a child watching "Wuthering Heights", I was shocked by this kind of torn, contradictory and mutual love-hate entanglement. The whole novel has a gloomy and even terrifying atmosphere, and this film restores it well. The more you love, the more you hate, the more you hate, the more you love. Hate comes from love, and love inspires hate. The first time I saw David Niven without a mustache, cute~ When will Ewan play Laurence Olivier.

  • Alana 2022-04-21 09:03:45

    This version is really old, but it is a very good version.

Wuthering Heights quotes

  • Heathcliff: Tell the dirty stable boy to let go of you. He soiled your pretty dress. But who soiled your heart? Not Heathcliff. Who turns you into a vain, cheap, worldly fool? Linton does. You'll never love him, but you'll let yourself be loved because it pleases your stupid, greedy vanity.

  • Cathy: He seems to take pleasure in being mean and brutal. And yet, he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. And Linton's is as different as frost from fire... Ellen, I AM Heathcliff.

    [thunderbolt]

    Cathy: Everything he's suffered, I've suffered. The little happiness he's ever known, I've had too. Oh, Ellen, if everything in the world died and Heathcliff remained, life would still be full for me.