{"id":7358,"date":"2007-12-12T09:40:53","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T14:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7358"},"modified":"2010-07-23T09:44:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T13:44:54","slug":"paris-texas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7358","title":{"rendered":"The Look of <i>Paris, Texas<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The movie <i>looks<\/i> so good, but it&#8217;s not just pretty pictures, or arresting images with no purpose.  The beauty in the landscape, the lighting, seeps into the feel of the film, and it has to do with the characters: their feelings of isolation, loneliness, smallness.  There are so many scenes where a character is faced with a surreal image: the giant brontosaurus by the highway, the massive wall murals behind the brothel, even just the damn sky out there.  All the elements of the landscape inform how the characters navigate their lives.  This is true of most of us, as humans, even if we aren&#8217;t aware of it.  It feels different to walk down the street in a small town in the Texas panhandle than it does to trip down the hills of San Francisco.  It doesn&#8217;t just affect our senses, meaning: what we LOOK at is different; it affects us <i>inside<\/i>.  <i>Paris, Texas<\/i>, without making a big deal about it, shows this.  Landscape as character, identity, plot, motivation.  <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"paris2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/paris2.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"paris25.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/paris25.jpg\" width=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"paris29.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/paris29.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"paris54.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/paris54.jpg\" width=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"paris73.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/paris73.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"paris64.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/paris64.jpg\" width=\"705\" height=\"461\" \/><\/p>\n<p><p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"paris72.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/paris72.jpg\" width=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<p><p>\nAnd then of course:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"paris85.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/paris85.jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The movie looks so good, but it&#8217;s not just pretty pictures, or arresting images with no purpose. The beauty in the landscape, the lighting, seeps into the feel of the film, and it has to do with the characters: their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[66,1389,1390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358"}],"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=7358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24862,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358\/revisions\/24862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}