Re: RAT Collage

[Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>]

--- NashGay@aol.com wrote:
> > In film the camera is a 
> character and impacts the entire "theatrical"
> experience.  And that's the 
> biggest difference between film and theatre. 


Mmmm.  I doubt it.

First, I'm not sure I agree that the camera IS a
character-- certainly not in every film.  And even
allowing your point, certainly the audience in theatre
is as much-- if not more-- of an active character than
the camera is in film, i.e. an audience can and does
change the performance each and every time.  The
camera merely records a picture.  This process can be
inflected, but ultimately, since the camera has no
consciousness of its own (Buddhists bear with me) it
can't CAUSE this inflection.

And as for this being the biggest difference, what
about the fact that film takes place in two-- maybe
three-- dimensions and theatre in at LEAST four?


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