By Catherine Spangler
The Making of 'Making a Scene': A behind-the-scenes look at the year's best performers starring in 11 original (very) short films directed by the Oscar-winning cinematographer Janusz Kaminski.
Movies exist, above all, to exalt the human face, and movie stars are people whose faces possess the mysterious power to make us look at them and want to keep looking. This is less a matter of beauty or of sexual magnetism than of individuality, of specialness. We like watching them pretend partly because we think we can see through the disguise. Their particular, paradoxical art is to bring credibility to the artifice. They are always themselves, even as their identities change from one role to the next. Seeing is believing.
But so is hearing. Since the beginning of the sound era, the most indelible faces on the screen have often possessed equally memorable voices. With eyes closed, we can still pick out Bogart and Bacall, Clint Eastwood and Cary Grant, Bette Davis and Marilyn Monroe. And many stars are as closely identified with words — "You talkin' to me?" "Frankly, my dear . . . " — as they are with poses and actions.
For reasons both technical and aesthetic, the magazine's annual great-performers portfolio has traditionally favored sight over sound. These pages don't talk, and the videos that in recent years have accompanied the pictures online have also been wordless. We have dressed actors in costumes, placed them on make-believe sets and invited them to play various villains, heroes and fantasy figures — or sometimes just themselves — but we have never given them lines to speak.
Until this year. For the first time, we commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters, including Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Andrew Bujalski, Nicole Holofcener and J. C. Chandor — writers responsible for some of the best scripts of 2013. We asked them each to write a single line for us — not a scene, a script or a scenario, but simply an intriguing, amusing or captivating line of dialogue. Then we gave these lines to one of the great movie artists of our time: the cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, a two-time Oscar winner and six-time nominee for his work on films like "Lincoln," "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" and "Schindler's List." Kaminski used these lines as inspiration to create 11 original (very) short films. Each short evokes a style or genre of the cinematic past and stars an actor who gave an especially memorable performance in 2013. The complete videos can be seen and heard here. But even in the photo portfolio, the voices are loud and clear.
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