Every Frame a Painting: What Would Billy Wilder Do?
Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, Some Like It Hot) was both a great director and a great writer. In this video essay, Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou examine how Wilder balanced the verbal, dramatic, and situational ironies of his scripts with making it all work on the screen, emotionally and structurally.
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Oh yeah, they posted their first new video back in August. If you support them on Patreon, you get to watch the videos a few days early.
"...how Wilder balanced the verbal, dramatic, and situational ironies of his scripts with making it all work on the screen, emotionally and structurally."
I thought that that's how the medium works, that that's what filmmakers are supposed to do.
If you were to ask Wilder, he would say it's, "What would Ernst Lubitsch do?"
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