Close Up (Mar-Dec 1933)

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16 CLOSE UP A scene from Pudovkin s new film, " The Deserter." Une scene du nouveau film de Pudoukin : " he Deserteur." Eine Ssene aus Pudovkins neuem Film " Der Deserteur." Shklovsky on scenic plot-composition and the methods of Weltmann's productions. Then, having studied the dramatic essence of situations with Webster and Volkenshtein, we pass on to consider how the situation can be clothed in words. Aleksey Maksimovich Gorky will probably not refuse to initiate us into the methods of writing the dialogues of " The Lower Depths " or " Egor Bulichev." Nikolay Erdman will enlighten us as to how it is done in his works. And Babel will tell us about the specifics of formal and of verbal structure and the technique of extreme laconism — Babel who, perhaps, has a better practical grasp than anyone else of the great secret that " .... no iron can enter into the human heart with such stupefying effect as a full stop opportunely placed." Inimitable use is made of this laconism in his wonderful " Decline " — perhaps the best example of the best dramatic dialogue of recent years. All these things will come up for consideration at corresponding stages of the progressive and united creative labours of our collective regisseur. The welding together of the different stages of independent analytical excursions is nothing very terrible. The building up of the theme and