In terms of 'direct address' many classical hollywood
comedies include a nod, wink, or shrug of the
shoulders to the camera and audience. Of course, now I
cannot remember specific titles!
Douglas McGrath's version of Emma (1996) with Paltrow
has a direct address in the final scene as Mrs. Elton
turns to the camera and in an aside says 'There was a
shocking lack of satin' or something of the like.
Does that help?
Philippa
--- Mike Frank <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >>Does
anyone know of any films that use a 2nd
> person point of view?
>
> i'm not sure i know quite what this might mean . . .
> the "second person"
> is identified as, in written language, a direct
> address to an audience
> signaled by the use of the word "you" . . . i'm
> finding it hard to imagine
> what a cinematic equivalent would be . . . even
> first person accounts in
> cinema are often signaled by voice over rather than
> by the images
> themselves, though of course we do have the
> convention of the POV
> shot which has--in rare cases--been used for the
> whole of a film [lady
> in the lake being the most notorious example] . . .
> but how, short of
> a soundtrack that addressed the audience directly,
> could there be
> a second person film??
>
> mike
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