“Unveiling the Allure: Why Brutalism Captivates Yet Confounds Modern Design”
But what about those four hours?
Did the movie really need to be that long?
Probably not 4 hours. But it needed to be long to work.
I’ll give you a specific example of why.
This script is not a straight line. We don’t go directly from the bottom of the graph to the top. There are a lot of dips along the way. Laszlo will have a big success. But it will be followed by a big failure.
For example, when Laszlo first gets the Van Buren job, it’s secured through Van Buren’s son, who is planning to surprise his father when he comes back from a trip. So Laszlo creates this stunning reading room. We can see that he’s alive again for the first time in years. Then Van Buren drives up, storms in the room, and starts screaming at him. Who are they? What are they doing? They’ve ruined his house! He not only kicks Laszlo out but he doesn’t pay him either. Which forces him to go right back to construction work.
