TA 2014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Blue Rose, Escapism
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Scene 1 [screen images and legends; theatrical elements: screen legend: words as described, projected on set. Scene 5 [tom"s speech p. 39: moth both attracted to and destroyed by the light, escapism of the dance hall, covering up reality with use of soft lighting (spherical lighting in the dance hall) Scene 6 [description of jim, prep of apartment and laura for dinner, amanda as a girl: truth and reality are too harsh; literal cover up. Image of laura being a religious statue and her mother kneeling at her feet: ritual of beautification, dress made from tom"s memory, radiance is not lasting.