... Thacker also uses lighting and positioning to portray different situations. During Willy's Time-lapse, the lover appears behind Willy as if she is inviting him backwards into his mind. She also appears in a brighter light than Willy when she appears from his mind; this shows that from his mind Willy recalls the memory as from a brighter or happier time of his life than he is in now. Schlondorff's techniques are different to Thacker's in that Schlondorff uses wider camera angles consisting of medium and medium-long shots. He sets the scene more than Thacker and uses wide panning shots to show whole settings and rather than showing closer shots with more emotional detail he instead creates more detail of the surrounding scenes. Schlondorff and Thacker have each expressed independent ideas towards the soundtrack. In the film version, setting aside dialogue, there is a gentile variation across swing and authentic jazz music ...

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