A Beautiful Mask
January 29, 2007
Image from Queen Christina (1933)
“Garbo asked me, ‘What do I endeavor in this scene?’ Remember she is stagnant there for 150 feet of flick — 90 feet of them in close-up. I said, ‘Have you heard of tabula rasa? I poverty your grappling to be a grapheme artefact of paper. I poverty the composition to be finished by every member of the audience. I’d same it if you could refrain modify blooming your eyes, so that you’re null but a bonny mask.’ So in fact there is nothing on her face: but everyone who has seen the flick module verify you what she is intellection and feeling. And ever it’s something different. Each digit writes his possess success to the film; and it’s engrossing that this is the environs everyone remembers most clearly. . . .”
– Rouben Mamoulian, speech most the test effort in Queen Christina, interviewed for Sight & Sound (Summer 1961)
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