5 d’abril del 2007

días de cine (3)

...Information is parceled out -sometimes in humorous exchanges of dialogue from William Goldman's script- one classic line after another, "Follow the money" being only the most famous, and sometimes in snippets of chatter during one of the half-dozen telephone scenes.

"It's so smart how they did this", Mr. Soderbergh said. "You get the scene where Redford is working on the phone, trying to get a small piece of information. Once he gets it, it's great narrative device. It's just good storytelling. It implies all the work that went into getting the information while keeping the story moving along."

It's all about the task of luring the audience from one scene to the next.

"I've begun to believe more and more that movies are all about transitions", Mr. Soderbergh said. "That the key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes. And not just how you get from one scene to the next, but where you leave a scene and where you come into a new scene. Those are some of the most important decisions that you make. It can be the difference between a movie that works and a movie that doesn't"...

(Watching movies with Steven Soderbergh, by Rick Lyman - New York Times)