Hiu wrote:
> Forget Mel Gibson, and /We Are Soldiers /(2000).
>
> Though I have never seen the film, and will probably never see it ever
> in my life,
>
> "Mel Gibson sobs on seeing the dead bodies of both friends' and foes'
> being gathered at the end of the war"
>
> sounds more like a point of view shot rather than an
> aesthetic focusing on the beauty or intimacy of people's back.
>
> There is one film is all about the shot of/from the back, there are
> even many different photographs of people's backs and necks at the end
> of the film
>
> during the credit sequence. There is also quotes about this aesthetic
> in the film dialogue:
>
> */Yi Yi :One and a Two /*(2000) by Edward Yang.
>
> "Why do you only take pictures of people's back?"
>
> "Because I want you to see it, as you can't see it yourself."
> Said the little boy, the main character.
>
> Alternatively, Gus Van Sant's */Elephant (2003)/* is another
> significant example.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Hiu
>
> *From:* Thoithoi O'Cottage <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 20, 2010 8:33 AM
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> *Subject:* shot of/from the back
>
> Hi everyone
>
>
> I am working on the aesthetic beauty of the back. Sometimes there is
> more aesthetic beauty in showing the back rather than the front as in
> one scene towards the end of We Were Soldiers in which Mel Gibson sobs
> on seeing the dead bodies of both friends' and foes' being gathered at
> the end of the war. Please let me know if anyone could help me find
> any movies with such shots of/from the back when if they were taken
> from the front it would not have been as aesthetically striking.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Thoithoi O'Cottage
>
>
> Rudolph Arnheim discusses a Chaplin scene shot from the back and talks
> about the use of the back as intrinsically cinematic.
>
>
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