POMP(OUS) SIRK-UMSTANCE: INTERTEXTUALITY, ADAPTATION, AND ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS

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This article is based on three movies. One of them is "All Heavens Allowed" supervised by Douglas Silk and made in the United States in 1955. The second one is Norman Mclauren directed animation film "Neighbors" produced in Canada in 1952, and Victorio De Sica director "Bicycle Thief" produced in Italy in 1948. These movies mainly include human behavior against his own human beings. In various styles and environments, they consistently refer to the instincts of each and every one of our animals.

Modern critics attacked with allowing All That Heaven to be too dull and obvious (serious reactions are dominated by this kind of derogatory attitude), but surprisingly it is a Sirk style It is subtle. Sark is one of the first color masters of this movie, but in this movie he is using a very limited palette. It is gold and brown, or white and blue. Colors and season parallelism: gold and brown represent warmth and comfort, but also autumn effect. Sirk seems to imply all the comfort represented by these colors, the sense of the times has ended. At the same time, blue and white have cruel fantasies. For example, the most terrible Gossip Mona in the movie is wearing almost blue, which is not surprising. The "split screen" function of the Sirk image enhances the cruelty of limited tones. There is winter outside the warm cottage. Ice house overlooks the tree where the leaves are lost

Douglas Sark's stylized melodrama "All That Heaven Allow" is located in Stonington, Connecticut, and is an ideal place for families. The open top lens represents a beautiful New England town with beautiful churches, white houses and tall trees. The main character of the movie, Kelly Scott (Jane Wyman) is a middle-aged widow who lives comfortably with the two adult children. She is a quiet and conservative woman, she began to believe that loneliness is her fate. To convey her delicate beauty and trembling state of mind, Director Sark uses bouquets.

All-Paradise Allowed (1954): Douglas Sirk Oscar nominates Melodrama, starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson