(I'm hoping you're beginning to see how this connects to iceberg theory)
I disagree with Bradley here, and I'll explain why in later posts.
To be continued tomorrow.
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Before I pick up from where I left off in the script & pretend there hasn't been a 6-month gap in this discussion of #TARfilm, #Hemingway, #icebergtheory, and #ToddField, permit me a digression that will, I promise, connect to the main ideas. It was inspired by A.C. Bradley's SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY.
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I've been AWOL from this long-running deconstruction of Todd Field's mesmerizing, shamelessly perfect #screenplay for #TAR for any number of reasons, the most flattering to me being that I was focused on my own #screenwriting. But I am Godwilling going to pick up the ball again this week. #TarFilm
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Here's a playlist of all the (short!) YouTube videos I've made on Todd Field's remarkable #screenplay for the film TAR -- and its debt to Ernest Hemingway. #writing #screenwriting #TARfilm #CateBlanchett youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Toward an Iceberg Theory Aesthetic
Toward an Iceberg Theory Aesthetic -- second video in my series on Todd Field's breakthrough script TAR.
#screenplay #film #screenwriting #TARFilm
youtu.be/wDlpXXY8zuA
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TÁR This was lying loose on the counter. Is it the right one? Sharon looks at it, nods, and swallows it.
Actually it's *seven* lies within 60 seconds or so of encountering Sharon. Lydia pretends not to know what her wife's heart medication looks like, despite having stolen the pills, illegally refilled prescription for her own use, and gobbling them down like candy. #TarFilm
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Count the lies as Lydia re-enters domestic orbit. And note the symbolism built into the point of attack on this scene... she enters her own house, and the first thing we see her do is turn off lights. She doesn't want a lot of lights on in her home life. Literally or metaphorically. #TarFilm
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(This video is well worth a watch, by the way)
Tomorrow: Back to Lydia as she re-enters the domestic setting she's about to explode. #TARFilm #screenplay #screenwriting #writing
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I promise, what follows is relevant to both #IcebergTheory & #TarFilm. It comes from a source you might not expect, tho: an in-depth breakdown, via the YouTube channel lvl 1 rock (subscribe to it, please), of the recent rap battle brought to an epic, globally televised conclusion by Kendrick Lamar.
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The principle of jumping ahead in time that gave us a sense of both acceleration and inevitability in #TARFilm, and that provided the Point of Attack for the airplane washroom scene, continues to play out in the next (brief) scene.
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So believe it or not, all that backstory--which in my (subjective) view not only fits the given circumstances of the airplane bathroom scene like a glove but also casts new light on the all-but-unseen-but-nevertheless-pivotal relationship btwn Lydia and Krista--is UNSTATED in the #TarFilm script.
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We've all got a shadow to deal with...& that Jungian reality=something the tragic realm of drama is meant to address. I believe an #IcebergTheory theme of #TARFilm =Lydia's similarity to Greek tragic heroes.
This only goes so far, tho: she does not die. It's almost as though that would be too easy.
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So ... we're still on our long march through the #TARFilm screenplay, and we are on page 25. We're in the middle of an important scene between Lydia and Francesca. But before we finish our look at that scene, I want to make an important addition to the list of lies Lydia is living.
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That brings us up to page 25. I'll update the list when we reach page 50 or so. As you can see, there's a lot of material to work with.
More tomorrow.
#Screenplay
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Mehak Faisal's graphic on this is the best I've found. Here it is again.
She identifies "deeper thematic elements" as being part of the 80% residing below the "waterline."
In the Cate Blanchett film TAR, one of these thematic elements = LYDIA MISLEADING OTHER PEOPLE OR LYING TO THEM. #TarFilm
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Tune in tomorrow as I share my Unofficial List of All the Lies Lydia Has Told By Page 25 of the #TarFilm #screenplay. There are a bunch: her aversion to speaking the truth is a major #IcebergTheory theme.
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So Olive does show up again in the story, just not in a scene.
ADDITION BY OMISSION!
More tomorrow.
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#Writing
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#IcebergTheory
#Hemingway
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Watching/rewatching #TARFilm means opening yourself up to the possibility you may've been wrong abt earlier assumptions. Kind of like life. I believe this is a feature, not a bug, & one of the chief attractions of an #IcebergTheory aesthetic. You never quite figure it all out. #collectiveunconscious
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For the rest of us (who don't happen to be Mahler freaks on Lydia's & Francesca's level) this exchange is likely to provide more questions than answers about what, exactly, they're sparring about. And yet, at the same time ...
#screenplay #screenwriting #TarFilm #writing
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2) It sets up another important thematic resonance, The Rules of the Game. (Actually, it also sets up yet a third, social media and its impact, if we count Lydia's "hashtag" reference.) Field is setting up multiple key themes in a very short span of time. #screenplay #screenwriting #TarFilm #writing
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1) It reminds us that, a few (screentime) minutes ago, we saw Lydia weigh in on Bach's personal life-so this interlude sets up a thematic resonance on the recurrent topic "Personal Lives of Artists." (Note that Lydia is a composer as well as a conductor.) #screenplay #screenwriting #TarFilm #writing
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Huge storm, ridiculous wind, power outages all over Ireland 2day; I'm exhausted from dealing w/it. Instead of a real post I'm going to show yez the scene where Lydia has a meltdown & attacks Eliot, which happens to be on YouTube. Reminder of what we're working up to #TARFilm youtu.be/7uq5ESb9DvE?...
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(I'll get back to unpacking that important scene btwn Lydia and Francesca tomorrow, but this hit me hard last night and I knew I had to share it here. By rights it begins at the beginning of this thread, but waddyagonnado..) #screenplay #screenwriting #writing #drama #fiction #IcebergTheory #TarFilm
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Yesterday, wealthy ally Eliot was falling all over her, begging for a chance to look at her conducting notes. Today, he's apologizing through an underling for cancelling. Multi-time viewer of #TARFilm asks:
Did he hear something about the master class?
Did Krista's father create some new obstacle?
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