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Stephen Brophy <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:02:15 EST
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  I just had an opportunity to watch "Blowup" over the weekend, and as
you can imagine I paid considerable attention to the tennis game.  As
the game gets underway, we only hear the sounds of the mime-players'
bodies as they move around the court.  The sound of the ball only
appears after the photographer picks it up from the grass and throws
it back to the players.  Since the sound only comes in after he has
involved himself in the pretense, I interpret it to represent some
complex weakening of his mental state vis a vis reality, given what he
has experienced through the night.  With this interpretation, the
sound of the tennis ball becomes analogous to a voice-over.
  But that raises a question for me.  Are voice-overs and similar
devices which are taken to be unreliable considered to be part of the
diegesis, or are they non-diagetic?  I suspect the former, but perhaps
I'm not familiar enough with the concept.
                                                Stephen Brophy
                                                Cambridge, Mass.
 
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