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libertangoSo, Kottke pointed to this piece by Ebert, "How to Read a Movie." As I mention in the comments:
In Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days, when the character Mace (Angela Bassett) is delivering a speech to Lenny (Ralph Fiennes) about how memories are designed to fade... Lenny is crumpling in front of a poster of elephants -- a well-known symbol of memory.
The first time I noticed this was at a special screening at the Chaplin Theater on Raleigh Studios' lot (the post-production studio across the street from Paramount), and Bigelow had a Q&A after the film.
I told her this was, yes, the first time I noticed it, and was it intentional?
The audience laughed, and there was a long pause.
"No. I'm going to have to ask the art director about that..."
(IMDb tells me it was John Warnke.)
In Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days, when the character Mace (Angela Bassett) is delivering a speech to Lenny (Ralph Fiennes) about how memories are designed to fade... Lenny is crumpling in front of a poster of elephants -- a well-known symbol of memory.
The first time I noticed this was at a special screening at the Chaplin Theater on Raleigh Studios' lot (the post-production studio across the street from Paramount), and Bigelow had a Q&A after the film.
I told her this was, yes, the first time I noticed it, and was it intentional?
The audience laughed, and there was a long pause.
"No. I'm going to have to ask the art director about that..."
(IMDb tells me it was John Warnke.)
