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   From: xplar@netscape.net   
      
   "RT"  wrote in message   
   news:a9aa933.0309041139.5348a036@posting.google.com...   
   >>The scene would   
   > > have played better if she said nothing, realizing they were no need for   
   > > words.>>>>   
   >   
   >   
   >    That would have been even more unbelievable. This reminds me of the   
   > China Syndrome... If she had said nothing what would   
   > have been the point? Same thing here. 4 unbelievable giant monsters   
   > have appeared (who most people either forgot about, or just did not   
   > believe in), hundreds of people have been killed, her father is   
   > underwater in a mini sub risking his life to kill Godzilla and   
   > everyone is terrified of this new kind of threat to their very   
   > existence.   
      
   I see the comparison of character between GMK and China Syndrome, but CS is   
   the about a cover-up, which makes the actual report a hundred times more   
   important. It's shining light on something hidden. There is nothing hidden   
   about G by the time she gives her report. It's redundant.   
      
   In a realistic context, every reporter and his cousin would be covering the   
   GMK event. If you think back to 9/11, and the actual moments of strike and   
   destruction, - not the replays, but if the live feeds - almost nothing is   
   said by the reporters because they too are trying to digest what's   
   occurring. What Yuri did was grandstanding, and it takes away from how   
   monumental it was supposed to be. I don't think it came out exactly how   
   Kaneko intended, and it probably doesn't plays too out of context in Japan,   
   considering how deep melodrama runs in the countries pop arts.   
      
      
   >Yuri keeps her composure and yes it is melodramatic but so   
   > is the situation.   
      
   Well, that's the difference in viewpoints. I don't see Kaneko as   
   intentionally aiming for the melodrama, but  rather, falling into it due to   
   her dialogue. I don't think he saw the battle as melodrama, because it's not   
   perceived in Japanese theater and film as it is in the States.   
      
   > <<< > having somewhat state the crew doesn't believe in G, he could have shown   
   > > them mocking or ignoring their mission report.>>>   
   >   
   >     WHY?   
      
   Because that's the point of film. Cinema is moving photography, not recorded   
   theater. The best scenes in the greatest films rely on the image, not on   
   what is being said. Film school 101 - have your characters *show*, not   
   *tell*. Kurosawa is considered one of the greats because of his ability to   
   do that. Honda was excellent with it in Gojira, but as the years went by, he   
   let it fall to the wayside and relied on heavy-handed dialogue.   
      
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