James Rogers (jetan@ionet.net)
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 02:35:45 -0600
At 03:15 AM 12/23/99 -0500, Bob Toomey wrote:
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>> I can't stand voice-over in films
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>What do you think of the voice-over, written by
Chandler, in "Double
>Indemnity?" How about Wilder's V.O. in "Sunset
Boulevard" or Kubrick's
>in "A Clockwork Orange?" I've heard this from others,
but why shouldn't
>a movie contain a voice-over? Do you feel it somehow
violates the
>cinematic quality of the work?
It just sounds campy to
me. I do acknowledge that it worked in
"Sunset Boulevard"....partly 'cuz the narrator is dead.
Forgot about
"Clockwork Orange", OK, you gotta point there. Didn't like
"Double Indemnity" all that well.
James
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