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From: "Jens Eder" <jens.eder-AT-gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Movement in Movies
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 08:23:58 +0200


Lieber Stefan Grundmann,
(ich schreibe auf Deutsch, damit klar ist, dass jetzt nur eine vage Idee
kommen kann...)
von einer niedergeschriebenen Rechts-Links-Regel für Regisseure weiß ich
nichts, die Leute, die ich kenne, gehen hier eher intuitiv vor. Wenn es die
Regel geben sollte, müsste sie sich in den Regie-Standardwerken z.B. von
Daniel Arijon oder Peter Ward finden lassen.
In der Bildtheorie und Bildsemiotik (z.B. Kress/van Leeuwen) versucht man
das Phänomen u.a. mit der Leserichtung zu erklären: Man beginnt die Zeile
links. So heißt angeblich auch "von links = hin" und "von rechts = zurück".
(Die Protagonisten "gehen ja oft wohin.") Ob das in anderen Kulturen anders
ist?
Grüße,
Jens Eder.

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: "Stefan Grundmann" <stefangrundmann-AT-web.de>
An: <film-theory-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2003 12:40
Betreff: Movement in Movies


> Dear list,
>
> I have a question about visual language in movies that nobody can respond
in
> germany ;)
>
> But first I'm going to introduce myself shortly: I'm a freelancing
> journalist, working in Hamburg/germany. The main topic of my work concerns
> cognitive sciences. About movies I haven't written articles yet.
>
> My Question: Someone told me that in hollywood movies the good ones/heroes
> at their first appearance moving from the left side of the screen to the
> right. At the other hand the bad one/evil primarily appear at the right
side
> moving leftwards.
>
> In a lot of movies I've watched I found a confirmation of this theory, but
I
> don't know, if it is something like a rule for directors or if they let
move
> the actors to the left or right by accident.
>
> The guy who told me about this "theory" is a movie jurnalist, who knows
> everything about James Bond Movies. He said, that 007 in every movie is
seen
> first at the left side of the screen moving rightwards (more or less he's
> right).
>
> Do you know something about left-right or right-left movements of the good
> and bad characters in movies?
>
> If you know something about that, please make me happy and send me an
email.
> Thank you a lot in advance!
>
> Best regards
>
> Stefan Grundmann
>
> ps: I'm not a person you may call a narrative english speaker - so, sorry
> about my english :)
>
> ----------------------------------------
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> 22303 Hamburg
>
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>
>
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