Andre Bazin by Andrew Dudley;

Author:Andrew, Dudley;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1978-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

Classical editing totally suppresses this kind of reciprocal freedom between us and the object. It substitutes for a free organization a forced shot breakdown where the logic of each shot is controlled by the reporting of the action. This utterly anaesthetizes our freedom. (Orson Welles, 58)

And so Welles’s revolution in the filming of key scenes was more than a merely stylistic innovation. It signaled a basic change in the conception of the filmed event and of the spectator for whom that event was filmed. Adding example to example, Bazin demonstrated first to his Champs-Elysées audience and then to his readers that in fact they participated in Citizen Kane in a way seldom if ever required of them before.

Bazin’s conclusions went far beyond cinema itself. That audience on the Champs-Elysées was the first of many groups to be dumbfounded by the metaphysics he drew from this analysis. Citizen Kane consciously brought to the screen a modern conception of the universe and man’s place within it. Hollywood editing, and standard editing everywhere, Bazin claimed,

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