{"id":7128,"date":"2007-10-12T09:09:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T13:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7128"},"modified":"2010-07-18T08:48:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-18T12:48:22","slug":"ready-for-your-close-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7128","title":{"rendered":"Ready for your close-up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so today begins the long-awaited Close-up Blog-a-Thon<\/a>! I have my piece written already – I just need to tweak it, and get some screenshots – but man, have I been having fun reading everybody else’s pieces. Love it!!<\/p>\n

Here’s a compilation of links<\/a>, bloggers who are participating and their close-up posts.<\/p>\n

And I have to say one additional thing about the Shamus’ beautiful post<\/a> about John Wayne’s star-making close-up in Stagecoach<\/i>. Read his thoughts on it – and then watch the clip. It’s wonderful how well he has described what it is that is so damn effective about that close-up. No wonder Wayne became a star.<\/p>\n

The look on his face as the camera zooms in on him unevenly reminds me of the following quote from Peter Bogdonavich about Wayne:<\/p>\n

To me, Duke had always seemed slightly out of breath, as though he hadn’t yet caught up on the last twenty years, not to mention the last twenty minutes. Both [John] Ford and [Howard] Hawks truly loved him, of course, and even knowing him a little, as I did, it was pretty difficult not to like him. All this, and a lot more, obviously communicated itself to the public — still the top American star more than seventy years since his beginning. His visual legacy has defined him as the archetypal man of the American West — bold, innocent, profane, idealistic, wrongheaded, good-hearted, single-minded, quick to action, not given to pretension, essentially alone, ready for any adventure — no matter how grand or daring; larger, finally, than life or death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s that “out of breath” observation that seems so right ON to me … that is THERE, in that first stunning closeup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And so today begins the long-awaited Close-up Blog-a-Thon! I have my piece written already – I just need to tweak it, and get some screenshots – but man, have I been having fun reading everybody else’s pieces. Love it!! Here’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22503,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7128\/revisions\/22503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}