Directors and Eye Patches
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But ... you know ... we've been all through this eye thing before ...
and recently.
One more time. Two eyes give us binocular vision. All very nice, rich,
good, practical. We get depth perception.
But the camera has only one eye. The camera films through one lens at a
time. Any one lens is monocular.
And all viewfinders ... whether hand-held or through-the-camera-lens,
whether used by the camera operator or the director or both, are
monocular.
So ... it just doesn't matter.
The camera has one eye ... at a time.
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Norton Shawn
Michael A. Lord
Through American Movies" over the last three nights. I counted no less than
5 directors interviewed wearing eye patches-- John Ford, Fritz Lang, Raul
Walsh, Andre de Toth and Nicholas Ray. Is this simply coincidence or did
film directing take its toll on the eyes?? I thought Ford lost his eye
during WWII but I'm not sure.
--
Michael A. Lord
"It's time we face up to the
un-face-up-to-able."
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John H
Worth noting -- Ford, Walsh and DeToth all had one good eye, yet all
directed 3-D films (Ford did some second unit work on Hondo for his
pal John Wayne)
John Harkness
Dan Benson
"Michael A. Lord" wrote:
>
> O.K., I'm just curious. TCM has shown Martin Scorsese's "Personal Journey
> Through American Movies" over the last three nights. I counted no less than
> 5 directors interviewed wearing eye patches-- John Ford, Fritz Lang, Raoul
> Walsh, Andre de Toth and Nicholas Ray. Is this simply coincidence or did
> film directing take its toll on the eyes?? I thought Ford lost his eye
> during WWII but I'm not sure.
I'm not so sure about the others, but I do know that Nicholas Ray lost
vision in his (right?) eye due to a bloodclot.
--
"I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself"
- François Truffaut
Dan Benson
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Bill Warren
> I counted no less than
>5 directors interviewed wearing eye patches-- John Ford, Fritz Lang, Raul
>Walsh, Andre de Toth and Nicholas Ray. Is this simply coincidence or did
>film directing take its toll on the eyes??
Good question. I knew Fritz Lang and Nicholas Ray; Ray never wore an eye patch
when I saw him, but Lang almost always did. His vision in general was very
bad. I once walked into a room where he was watching "Dark Shadows" from about
a foot away from the TV screen -- and still had to have someone else read the
credits for him.
I suspect also that eye patches were regarded as a bit dashing, a little
piratical, and so some of these guys wore them rather than glass eyes for the
sheer panache of it all.
I can think of a few directors whose films might be improved if they wore
two eye patches.....
Jim Beaver
> >From: "Michael A. Lord" mal...@bestweb.net
>
> > I counted no less than
> >5 directors interviewed wearing eye patches-- John Ford, Fritz Lang, Raul
> >Walsh, Andre de Toth and Nicholas Ray. Is this simply coincidence or did
> >film directing take its toll on the eyes??
If only John Wayne had also directed TRUE GRIT, he could be on this list!
Jim Beaver
no...@webtv.net
like duelling scars from heidelberg before.
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Norton Shawn
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The only person I know who deffobatly lost his on war is German director Fritz Lang who (either from gas or shrapnel) slowly went blind.
william ahearn
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> The only person I know who deffobatly lost his on war is German director Fritz Lang who (either from gas or shrapnel) slowly went blind.