Rouben Mamoulian

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Quotes

• “[In 1927] Porgy made me overnight. In it I tried all my ideas of a dramatic integration of many elements ... At this time I felt it should be possible, in a stage production, to take a snapshot of the stage picture at any moment, and record an artistic composition. So each movement and grouping was minutely rehearsed. The actors were often required to adopt poses which were neither comfortable nor natural, but which looked right on the stage. That's stage truth.”
• “To accompany the transformations I wanted a completely unrealistic sound. First I tried rhythmic beats, like a heartbeat. We tried every sort of drum, but they all sounded like drums. Then I recorded my own heart beating, and it was perfect, marvellous. Then we recorded a gong, took off the actual impact noise, and reversed the reverberations. Finally we painted on the sound track; and I think that was the first time anyone had used synthetic sound like that, working from light to sound.”
• “As soon as you use an element on the screen it becomes subject to dramatic laws. This is as true of colour as of everything else. So I wanted to shoot everything from the start. I took four or five weeks to prepare my plans. My idea was to build up the colour dramatically. I wanted to start with black, white, grey; then ooze into colour. And I wanted the dramatic climax of the film to coincide with the colour climax, which would be predominantly red, because that is the nature of red.”
• “Colour cinematography tends to brighten and cheapen natural colour. The problem was to counteract that. I realised that colour in films is nearer to painting than to the stage. Now if you look, for instance, at a crimson cloak painted by El Greco, you’ll find that what first appears as a mass of colour is in fact a subtle blending of all sorts of shades, with patches of pink and blue and purple and green. So I treated the colour the way a painter would.”

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Key facts

Born

Rouben Zachary Mamoulian , ( 1897-10-08 ) October 8, 1897, Tiflis , Russian Empire (now Tbilisi, Georgia)

Died

December 4, 1987 (1987-12-04) (aged 90), Woodland Hills, Los Angeles , California, U.S.

Citizenship

United States

Occupations

Film and stage director

Years active

1927-1963

Spouse

Azadia Newman ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1945 ) ​

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