Canvas...

I've been thinking more and more about the style or the canvas or the fabric of the film. I could just say The Royal Tenenbaums or Pulp Fiction or Magnolia and The West Wing end this sentence. Now there are two things that come through in these films: the first is the identity/aesthetics/style of the director. Almost every character in The Royal... speaks the same way and the shots, the pacing, the timing is the same. This isn't what I want. I want that other thing: the fabric, the stage that the film sits on. I think about that. All characters speaking the same language isn't realistic for me, also why waste the chance to try on so many suits and voices by having them all be extensions of you? But the canvas... that's interesting.