Writing the short film 3th - Part 5. Cuốn sách này chủ yếu giúp tham khảo về phương pháp viết kịch bản, phim ảnh, video và các nhà làm phim video - những người đang phải đối mặt với sự cần thiết của việc viết một kịch bản tường thuật ngắn sao cho hay, mạch lạc, nội dung phim được truyền tải hết đến người xem. | 18 Writing the Short Film He throws the gloves at Orpheus. Orpheus catches them hesitates for a moment and puts them on. The action in the following scene is shown through reversed film. HEURTEBISE standing by the mirror With those gloves you ll go through the mirror as though it were water ORPHEUS Prove it to me. HEURTEBISE Try it. I ll come with you. Look at the time. The clock shows just a second before six o clock. Orpheus prepares to go through the mirror. His hands are at his side. HEURTEBISE Your hands first Orpheus walks forward his gloved hands extended toward the mirror. His hands touch reflected hands in the mirror. Are you afraid ORPHEUS No but this mirror is just a mirror and I see an unhappy man in it. HEURTEBISE It s not a question of understanding it s a question of believing. Orpheus walks through the mirror with his hands in front of him. The mirror shows the beginning of the Zone. Then the mirror reflects the room once When Orpheus returns with his wife Eurydice after a series of adventures in the Zone the clock is just striking six. The scene is a brilliant example of how to write scripts that create magical effects by the simplest means. Cocteau the director had to shoot his films on extremely low budgets so Telling a Story in Images 19 Cocteau the scriptwriter saw to it that his screenplays did not call for complicated special effects. And he used simple language to do this. An image in Cocteau s Beauty and the Beast as breathtaking today as in 1945 when the film was first released is described in the screenplay very simply. The story is set in the 17th century Beauty has just returned from the Beast s kingdom to visit her ailing father a merchant. Her two wicked older sisters are hanging sheets in the yard one of many household tasks that used to be left to poor Beauty. The merchant and Beauty walk across the yard. Beauty looks like a only piece of jewelry is a magnificent pearl necklace with a diamond clasp. The two .
