Experts explain why this 'Succession' shot looks like a Renaissance painting
While shooting this scene in the finale, Mylod didn’t have a specific inspiration in mind; he says the composition of the three actors was driven by the emotion the moment in the story demanded. “I’m not an academic filmmaker. Any smarts that I might have is instinct and what you might call emotional intelligence,” he says. “When you’re in the moment or when you’re building with your colleagues, all of this becomes somewhat subliminal and intuitive.
“That scene, what it called for emotionally, for me, was stillness,” Mylod adds. “Which is a very powerful tool in ‘Succession,’ because we don’t do it very often. And when it does happen, it tends to have an impact when we do it correctly.” This rare moment of stillness is undoubtedly what has captivated viewers. It may also offer a reason why this composition has conjured comparisons to Renaissance or Baroque-era imagery in the eyes of the internet, says Richard Rand, the associate director for collections at the Getty Museum. “The drama [of ‘Succession’] is told through the human experience, right? And that’s always been the case with Renaissance or Baroque paintings. … The human body was the conduit for the drama,” he says.
“They’re communicating through their body gesture as much as through the words they speak,” Rand adds. “And that’s key to painting, of course, because we can’t hear people speak, so we have to understand what they’re thinking through their facial expressions and gestures. It’s often very subtle, because there were rules about decorum in Old Master painting, where you didn’t really want to show peopleis good at that: Sometimes people freak out ...
In Rand’s view, great TV and cinema implement “the techniques of the Old Masters to compose a scene, create the tableau of the figures to enhance the drama and to bring depth and emotional richness to it,” which nods to the practice ofUltimately, the composition of the Roy siblings mid-disintegration is an inspired choice that evokes a bevy of interpretations:, the sublime gut-punch that one might experience before a large fresco for others.
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