THE MYTH OF TOTAL CINEMA- ANDRE BAZIN

Andre Bazin co-founder of magazine cahiers du cinema started writing about films in 1943. Bazin observed and analyzed the current scenario of development of technology in cinema was merely for monetary gain. He stated very few ‘savants’ use technology to make a real hype in cinema. He was in constant argument. Bazin who was in support of realism has wrote the book ‘The Myth of Total Cinema’. He argued for the inventors of photography and cinema were not just enough with getting technology for sale. He does admit that few were largelyapprehensive with this – but they were determined for the imitation and reproduction of the “real” world.Bazin states that The Real primitives of the cinema, existing only in the imaginations of a few men of the nineteenth century, are in complete imitation of nature. Every new development added to the cinema taking it nearer to its origins.

Realism means getting imaginative idea in to existence. Technology was an ad on to achieve realism. Bazin explains ‘The cinema is an idealistic phenomenon. He argued that no technology or monetary investment can make it look realistic.

Bazin theories explained that even though new technology will come up in the future, the height and volume of realism will be infinite. Technology will only help to make it look more real. But the aesthetic value will still remain the same. He believes the desire for realism is the natural, organic start and end point of the cinema.