Pacing & rhythm

power theme, the motif that runs through the movie. The other thing he did was he showed the audience this sequence we're looking at without sound and then he talked about how music changes your perception of time. If you watch this without sound it seems to go by incredibly slowly but the pace becomes more interesting with the music in the background.

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And it seems to me there is something very musical about the way he edits. Well, it is about time. And pacing generally. I mean, in other words, because the sense of tempo also comes, is in the mise-en-scene, is in the acting. But it seems to me, I'm guessing this, that if Welles were asked which of the other art forms film is closest to, he would say music. ...authority on what people will think. The newspapers, for example.

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aren't you? This particular scene is also one of the longest takes in the film. And it is a sequence shot. And one of the reasons that I like this kind of approach to filmmaking is that it gives the actors more control over the tempo and the pacing than the editing. And I just enjoy watching the actors handle scenes like that. Yeah.

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