Frenchman Andre Bazin had an early desire to teach; it's no wonder that he was the one to prime cinematography through the lens of the scholar. He was sent to teach kids whose education had been neglected with the start of World War I, creating a perfect audience for his anti-Nazi, banned cinematic screenings. After the war he got away from his educational ambitions for awhile in order to direct the cultural center at the Institut des Hautes études Cinématographiques and critique cinema at the paper Le Parisien libere. Following that, Sartre hired him to write for Les Temps modernes and he began to write for a variety of other publications as a cinematic expert. His life work was cut short after being diagnosed with Leukemia.
Andre Bazin's complete authenticity in his writing was often equated with his original desire to educate, and not function within his profession as a mere seeker of praise or stature. It may also originate from his belief in the camera's capture as the divine miracle of God; it fulfills that innate desire -within all of us- to see the world exactly reproduced outside of its original context in time. According to him, its successes stems from the lack of the human presence in the creation of the work, in contrast to the inadequacies of painting due to its subjectivity.Under his ideology of the true "real", he blatantly opposed the idea of the director's stylizing of reality, exposing the artifice of montage. Recognizing Hollywood movies for their "Classical" taste, he preferred the simple ideals of directors who approached their -realistic- films in a spiritual manner. Though he was afterward criticized for his desire over complete purity of truth, the over-stylized cinema of today makes it look as if there may be a turn towards simplification.
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