directly addressing audience
introduction of orlando: directly addressing audience allows the audience to feel as though the film is solely for their benefit. Orlando and the viewer share an intimate relationship. This also allows for a repoire/identification of orlando to be established, one that is repeated in several scenes. Orlando and his/her character is identified by it.
Casting: androgyny extends to casting: Quentin crisp as queen elizabeth unsures the fluidity of the theme of androgyny.
change: orlando the man to orlando the woman
androgyny and gender: orlando and shelmerdine as androgynous partners for each other. the physicality of the actors aide in the blurring of the lines of sex, who is woman and who is man.
summary of orlando the film by sally potter: illustrates the central role gender/sex plays in the film/novel
androgyny continued
sexual identity and androgyny
Orlando: androgyny of costume
the self in relation to exteriors/interiors and landscapes. How they vary according to gender, reflecting the various pressures/allowances each gender is yolked with. That difference must come across.
Underlying female consciousness throughout.
Thoughts on the voice over: if it should represent orlando as both female and male (to be included at the beginning and end of film, or only when she is a woman. Potter convinced that whole book is written with a 'female' consciousness. interesting regarding the novel's and film's deconstruction on gender, what is female/male.
time and time travel: the pace of the film and the shifts in time.
Orlando's difficulties as a woman: the social conventions of the victorian age and what this means for orlando the woman.
Gender and Orlando: Potter's understanding of orlando and gender as well as cinema's ability to depict these ambiguous images of orlando as man/woman
Orlando as man.
Orlando/Swinton as man. Costume and stance/facial expression are utilized in order to confuse the viewer and present Orlando/Swinton as man.
Orlando: a man, description of him as boyish athletic. fine legs.