When the world seems close to pear shaped,
When leaders fill you with despair
When things look dark and dreary
And love seems far too rare -
CUDDLE A DUCK
[ It works ...]
A scene from F.W. Murnau’s masterpiece Faust (1926), where the demon Mephisto takes Faust on a flying tour of the world.
To fake this in the 1920s, the crew built a hidden iron platform in the studio to hold the actors, using massive fans to blow their capes and billowing glass wool to create the surrounding clouds. They then used double exposure to layer the actors over a moving, miniature model city, making it look like they were actually soaring over the mountains and rooftops.
Daniel Radcliffe has one of the most underrated post-franchise careers around. Most actors would’ve spent years chasing another blockbuster, but he jumped to films like Swiss Army Man, Guns Akimbo, Horns and Weird: The Al Yankovic Story instead.
Cose belle: Hideo Kojima, Gaspar Noé, Mathieu Kassovitz, Nicolas Winding Refn e Dario Argento al Parco della Cervelletta, per il Cinema in Piazza.
Foto: Luca Dammicco, Piccolo America.