King Vidor o la capacidad de asombro

• Autores: Tag Gallagher
• Localización: Nosferatu: Revista de cine, ISSN 1131-9372, Nº. 31, 1999 (Ejemplar dedicado a: King Vidor), págs. 4-13
• Idioma: español
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  • King Vidor or the ability to surprise
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  • King Vidor is reminiscent of Chaplin. Both filmamkers managed to bring the art of the big screen closer to the man in the street, who saw himself reflected in their pictures. Chaplin was Vidor´s model and, like Chaplin, was successful in capturing in his images the essence of nature and humankind, in bringing out the poetry of the commonplace, of the simple things in life. His work, just as that of Rossellini and de Sica, is full of melodrama and sex, storyline and climax, plus all kings of cinematographic inventions. Vidor´s characters are often lost and alone, the family or community representing a battlefiled rather than ideal. However, in the end they find the strength needed to become a family. On the other hand, Vidor´s work with his actors, and even more so with his actresses, is extremely important. His results came from the very behaviour of his actresses more than from acting methods. We might know that the people in Vidor´s films are acting, but we never perceive them as actors.