La dolce vita by Richard Dyer

Author:Richard Dyer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

The last example is a transition from one sequence to another. Usually such transitions in La dolce vita are done using a quick fade-out to black and then fade-in to the next scene. One exception is a dissolve from the camera hanging round Paparazzo’s neck as he walks away from the scene of Steiner’s killings to the lights of the cars driving fast through the night to the party in Fregene. This elides those who document the sweet life and those who live it, mutually dependent rather than antagonistic (which is how it was shown earlier in the film and in many of the famous paparazzi photos of the period). The elision is also embodied in Marcello’s move from reporting to now working as a publicist, which is also at the heart of the row he has with the Laura Betti character.

As with the camera movement, for much of the time the editing in La dolce vita follows the established practices of continuity editing, unobtrusive, guided by character and event. It does not, however, exploit the potential either for entering a scene (which would undercut the film’s aesthetic of flatness) or point-of-view shots (which would anchor everything too clearly in psychology or specifically Marcello’s perception – as Burke points out (1996: 112–113), while Marcello is in every sequence, he is by no means visible throughout them).

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