Verb,

It's my pleasure. I only wish I had more time to examine the episode but my house was under renovation so I watched it at a friends.
I wish my viewing experience was a little different so I could have soaked it up by myself, without a bunch of other people in the room oohing and aahing.

So a lot of my comments are really hindsight and has also been biased by all the media surrounding the ending. But let it be said, loud and clear, GOOD ARTISTS CREATE, GREAT ARTISTS STEAL.

- And if Chase wants to use the Godfather and other works that are ingrained in the conscience of pop culture to tell his story, then so be it.
- We don't look down at Scorsese for using the lines, "I could have been somebody.. I could have been a contender." at the end of Raging Bull, to give us the insight we needed for Jack La Motta.

- We don't look down at DePalma for borrowing techniques from Eisenstein in the Untouchables when the baby carriage falls down the stairs (this was first used in the Odessa Steps Sequence of Battleship Potemkin, which I think was made in 1921 or so.)

Cinema is a visual language which has it's own set of rules. Some of it is very conscience but most of it is very subconscience to the audience. The use of space, shapes, camera angles, areas of focus, color pallette, lens selection, location, color, lighting, makeup, wardrobe, etc. is all meticuliously chosen.

We stand on the shoulders of our predecessors and we honor them by referencing the visual laws of cinema that they have paved for us. We try to interoperate things in our own way, while paying homage to the works we so much love.

B

Also, it's my pleasure to share my thoughts on the matter, but please, it's not gospel. I'm just a guy with an MFA. That and a token will get me on the subway.

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