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David Ezell notes:
> Perhaps the most painful of all the musical moments is
> the Act One finale from THE KING AND I (where the gag
> is that Anna cannot have her head higher than the
> King). The video camera pans to Anna, cuts to the
> King, back and forth. Poor home viewers never get to
> see the visual joke as Yul Brenner slides slowly into
> a full split, and Anna struggles to keep up with him.
Another example of pan-and-scan loss is REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. See,
for example, the opening scene in the police station. Ray uses both
wide-screen and depth of staging to link Dean, Wood, and Mineo before
any of them has spoken a word to the other. The impact is totally lost
in the pan-and-scan version. In a different way, the impact of the
spatial isolation and loneliness in 2001 is diluted considerably in
non-wide-screen editions.
Don Larsson
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Donald Larsson
Minnesota State U, Mankato
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