#cinematicquotes

[cinematic-landscapes]

"Another function that landscapes frequently perform in movies is the role of the actor or the role as (nature’s) spectacles. Landscape is presented in movies for its own sake. Uniqueness, beauty and aesthetics of landscape are of top priority without reference to the action of the movie."

(Escher 2006, 310)

[cinematic-landscapes]

"The prerequisite is that the cinematic landscape is defined as a scene of action for actors and no longer serves as a backdrop. The symbolic function of a cinematic landscape unites people under a single symbol that stands for relationships, values and goals of a group of people, e.g. in the form of national attributes."

(Escher 2006, 310)

Still from ‘Beau Travail’ (1999)

[cinematic-landscapes]

"Landscape is not just the commodity, it is a source for identity, an element of mediation, a part of individual or collective fantasy and imagination not just a part of cultural fabric for an ideology and spectacle but far too profound and prolific in both physical and virtual space of creativity"

(Singh and Singh 2019, 98)

Still from ‘Rhine Kilometer 497 (Ongley 2022)