06/05/2013
This reminds me of a montage experiment of Russian filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s where footage of an expressionless face of Tsarist matinee idol Ivan Mosjoukine was juxtaposed with shots of a plate of soup, a girl in a coffin and a woman on a daybed. The audience marveled at the "acting" of Mosjoukine, showing an expression of hunger when shown with the plate of soup; grief when shown with the girl in the coffin; and desire at the woman on the daybed. Actually, the three shots of Mosjoukine's expressionless face were exactly the same shot.
Thanks for the link to the article below, Tets.
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