Reading this on the same day I read NYT mag's recent profile on production design legend Jack Fisk was a piece of serendipity. He's clearly a master of charm as defined here -- see the sets of Days of Heaven, There Will Be Blood, or Badlands. Nothing cutesy, but a great deal of embodied/expressed humanity that I find admirable, attractive, and delightful as they do the job of illustrating characters and shaping worlds while remaining, by definition, in the background.
THE DÉCOR CHARM OFFENSIVE (THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE OFFENSIVE)
Reading this on the same day I read NYT mag's recent profile on production design legend Jack Fisk was a piece of serendipity. He's clearly a master of charm as defined here -- see the sets of Days of Heaven, There Will Be Blood, or Badlands. Nothing cutesy, but a great deal of embodied/expressed humanity that I find admirable, attractive, and delightful as they do the job of illustrating characters and shaping worlds while remaining, by definition, in the background.