Daily Reads-2020: Article-54

Article Title: Architecture in cinema

Article Summary

In this article, the author highlights the significance of architecture in the world of Cinema. While Cinema and Architecture are two different art forms, they have a relation that goes a long way and is both superficial and profound. Architecture imparts an authenticity and believability factor needed by the director to make his film as close to the story and setting as possible, and the emergence of Art Director in cinema is a testimony to that fact.

The author describes the purpose of Architecture in cinema is to teleport the viewer into the writer’s imagined world, so one could understand the look and feel that the writer wants to express. While both Cinema and Architecture have inspired and influenced each other’s contemporary version, the author remarks that there seem no limits to what these art forms can bring out in each other.

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Words to learn from this Article:

Noir: a genre of crime film or fiction characterised by cynicism, fatalism, and moral ambiguity.
Influence: the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behaviour of
someone or something, or the effect itself.
Perspective: a particular attitude towards or way of regarding something; a point of view
Dystopic: relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering orinjustice
Angst: a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition or the state of the world in general.
Superficial: existing or occurring at or on the surface.