A Tale Of Two Dicks.
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A Tale of Two Dicks is a stylized comparison between how two different adaptations, one being Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and the other being the miniseries, Stephen King’s The Shining directed by Mick Garris. Both sequences focus on the performances of Scatman Cruthers and Melvin Van Peebles respectively as the character of Dick Hallorann and how both Actors interpret the character as well as how the framing and screen direction effect the tone of the performance and the subjective feeling each viewer may feel the scenes evoke. I have taken some editing liberty with Cruthers’ performance and removed the cutaways and choose a stark black and white filter to rotoscope the scene to evoke what I personally felt about it, but will not verbally stay here because I believe that there are too many ending and did you know type videos out there and in this particular case, I want you all to look at this for yourselves and take from it what you will using your own critical thinking skills. The Melvin Van Peebles performance is presented in a rotoscope comic book color filter because of the same reasons and in both cases, they both are kind of graphic novel like or motion comic like interpretations of their scenes. This video is exclusive to Patreon, but free to all to view and comment on. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Mark A. Rivera
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