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John Huston: Movies
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John Huston wrote or adapted the screenplays for many of the films he directed, and the best ones are full of crackling dialogue and quotable quips. Can you match the quotes below to this list of movies directed by Huston?
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Huston began exploring his style of framing in his first film, The Maltese Falcon. Following his sketches, he set up shots like the canvases of paintings he had studied. Specifically, Huston showed an interest in characters appearing in the foreground of a shot, with their faces often covering half the screen. Frequently, too, the person whose face half fills the screen is not talking, but listening. The person reacting ... becomes more important than the one speaking or moving.
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...[John Huston] said he thought he knew what was interesting about movies. When he had everybody's attention he said it was their magic. "What you try to become is a bringer of magic," he reflected. "For magic and truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic. When they are misused of course it's a debasement of magic. But when they work, it's--well, it's glorious."
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There is ... a choice between illusion and reality, a choice Huston finds difficult to make. Religion is seen as part of the fantasy world, a dangerous fantasy that his characters must overcome if they are not to be destroyed or absorbed by it. This theme is present in The Bible, Wise Blood, and Night of the Iguana. Huston's negative religious attitude is also strong in A Walk with Love and Death, which includes three encounters with the clergy. In the first, Heron is almost killed by a group of ascetic monks who demand that he renounce the memory of Claudia and "repent his knowledge of women." The young man barely escapes with his life. These religious zealots counsel a move away from the pleasure of the world and human love, a world that Huston believes in.
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The decision to film Iguana in Mexico was in keeping with Huston's preference for making movies on location. 'The location, just like an actor,' Huston explained, 'gives something to the picture, you know, envelops it in an atmosphere.'
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