Sunday, September 02, 2012

When an image system goes awry...

Robert McKee defines an image system as "a strategy of motifs, a category of imagery embedded in the film that repeats in sight and sound from beginning to end with persistence and great variation, but with equally great subtlety, as a subliminal communication to increase the depth and complexity of aesthetic emotion". See if you can spot the image system in the finale of Kenneth Branagh's Dead Again...

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