When I began discussing the overarching concept for the film of Hair, there was one point that I didn't want to touch until I had a definitive idea of how to achieve the proper effect on film: Claude's revelatory hallucination. The rest of the film is built on Claude viewing things through his camera, but when Claude gets high, it's going on in his head. It's not occurring in real time in a realistic space ("fluid-abstract world," ahoy!). Therefore, that makes it harder to show on film under the constraints of that concept. So, how do we deal with it?
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
This is 1967, not 1968
The title of the blog, for anyone who follows Hair well, is based on a line in Berger's exchange with his school principal from the "Pocket Books edition." In case you haven't guessed, today's blog deals with the timeline of the film, an issue that stems back to the stage show, which has always been fluid with regards to time period.
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