THE OPTICIAN
http://www.bbc.co.uk/filmnetwork/films/p00b65gs
- One of the main things i especially liked about this film is how the voice over isn't just blandly talking as he would, the speech overlaps, representing the jumbled mess of the mind accurately. I'm not entirely sure if we would be able to do this for our film as i have pretty much formed the sequencing and camera shots in my head and there wouldn't really be many opportunities to put one in, in fact it is more than possible that putting it in where i may have room for it would do nothing more than make the film seem needlessly jumbled.
- Another thing i am especially impressed with about this film is how the main character played by the ever immaculate Chris Barrie is portrayed. The way that the opening shot of the film is a close up of him fussing over how his tie looks, undoing and redoing it and the way that the next shot is a close up of him adjusting a pair of glasses on the display so that they are in exactly the same position as before implying a very fusty and slightly neurotic presence of mind which ties in nicely with the main plot, being him trying to pluck up the courage to tell a girl in the office that he is in love with her.
- I also especially like the casting for the character of the optician. It isn't something that is especially important to our film, however it does serve as a lesson to always make an effort to cast people as close to the characters as you can instead of just flinging anyone into the role and hoping that they envision the character the same as you. I can think of no one better for the role of a self absorbed stuffy and neurotic optician than Chris Barrie, especially after his performance as Arnold Rimmer during Red Dwarf.
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