Julian Schnabel stole my idea. No, we've never met, and I haven't pitched my idea for a completely first person POV movie to anyone (before right now, that is), but still...he stole it.
In The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Schnablel and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski use the POV camera to great effect. And, really, it's the only technique that could work in this film. We see the first twenty minutes of so through the eye (just one eye) of the main character, Jean-Do Bauby, as he struggles to come to grips with the effects of "locked-in syndrome" as a result of a stroke. The movie is based on the book that Bauby, a former editor of the French edition of Vogue Magazine, actually wrote. No, he didn't recover from his stroke; he wrote the book letter-by-letter by blinking when an assistant got to the letter he wanted in a read through the alphabet. The concept is crazy, and Schnabel's innovated directing does his subject justice. As someone intersted in film technique, I found this movie fascinating.
In The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Schnablel and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski use the POV camera to great effect. And, really, it's the only technique that could work in this film. We see the first twenty minutes of so through the eye (just one eye) of the main character, Jean-Do Bauby, as he struggles to come to grips with the effects of "locked-in syndrome" as a result of a stroke. The movie is based on the book that Bauby, a former editor of the French edition of Vogue Magazine, actually wrote. No, he didn't recover from his stroke; he wrote the book letter-by-letter by blinking when an assistant got to the letter he wanted in a read through the alphabet. The concept is crazy, and Schnabel's innovated directing does his subject justice. As someone intersted in film technique, I found this movie fascinating.
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