tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.comments2013-05-14T21:32:16.162-05:00Musing PicturesArnon Z. Shorrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338457910724144673noreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-14002235558237107052013-05-14T21:32:16.162-05:002013-05-14T21:32:16.162-05:00Darn. You're right! I'll amend the origin...Darn. You're right! I'll amend the original post...Arnon Z. Shorrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12338457910724144673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-70460163237644913332013-05-14T21:22:43.419-05:002013-05-14T21:22:43.419-05:00That's not the movie: it's a five-minute p...That's not the movie: it's a five-minute preview and behind-the-scenes featurette. Still cool, but not the film itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-28809350413173199402013-04-08T15:45:35.354-05:002013-04-08T15:45:35.354-05:00What an absolutely wonderful piece to read, I lear...What an absolutely wonderful piece to read, I learned so much more about what goes on behind the scenes with the artistic eye of 3D, thank you for that!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10556612162812305495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-46417161859601575322013-01-20T22:22:04.132-05:002013-01-20T22:22:04.132-05:00Tuckerscreator, I think the concern was that the b...Tuckerscreator, I think the concern was that the book de-emphasizes narrative in favor of philosophical speculation, something small-scale and art-house films can do very well, but that bigger-budget spectacle films tend not to handle. The theory is, if you're spending so much money on something, you want it to be as accessible and comprehensible as possible -- you need every audience member you can get to recoup that kind of budget. "Pi" might have been considered unfilmable because it required both the art-house introspection and the big budget.Arnon Z. Shorrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12338457910724144673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-23580163467763734052013-01-20T19:45:46.984-05:002013-01-20T19:45:46.984-05:00Indeed I'm surprised by those who said Life of...Indeed I'm surprised by those who said Life of Pi could not be adapted. For the beginning it struck me as a very cinematic concept.Tuckerscreatorhttp://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tropers/Tuckerscreatornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-86583600724224897052013-01-20T16:21:05.633-05:002013-01-20T16:21:05.633-05:00Now that Brad Bird re-tweeted a link to this post,...Now that Brad Bird re-tweeted a link to this post, I figure I should add some juicy detail.<br /><br />The memorable "Primal Scream" from the Prometheus trailer came from a track called "Judge and Jury", from the album "Deus ex Machina" by Audiomachine. See this Fast Company article: http://www.fastcocreate.com/1680846/behind-that-screaming-spooky-track-in-the-prometheus-trailersArnon Z. Shorrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12338457910724144673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-55599192174509502352012-12-16T20:54:46.644-05:002012-12-16T20:54:46.644-05:00I'm reading this over, seven years later, and ...I'm reading this over, seven years later, and I'm astounded at what I wrote. Although I haven't seen "King Kong" since writing this, I only remember it as an overwrought CGI slug-fest that misses the subtlety of the original film while spending way too much time trying to out-do it. Why is it that I've changed my opinion of this film so radically over the years without having seen it a second time?<br />-AzSArnon Z. Shorrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12338457910724144673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-11163107687552914882012-08-06T10:49:43.204-05:002012-08-06T10:49:43.204-05:00Good point, Mr. Kirby,
I wonder, in fact, what th...Good point, Mr. Kirby,<br /><br />I wonder, in fact, what the DVD/BR transfers will do in this regard. On one hand, it would probably be distracting on a smaller screen, but would it be distracting in the way "letterboxing" was distracting to some viewers in the VHS era? ("Letterboxing", for those who have forgotten, was the presentation of widescreen films on almost-square TV screens -- the image was shrunk down to the middle of the screen, with black bars above and below it, so you could see the entire picture. Most VHS movies simply showed the middle part of the image, cutting off the left and right sides, so they could fill the TV frame entirely). I remember lots of folks hated letterboxing, but many "purists" felt it was necessary to see the whole picture.<br /><br />-AzSArnon Z. Shorrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12338457910724144673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-7369779311140164002012-08-06T05:14:17.267-05:002012-08-06T05:14:17.267-05:00I don't disagree that it was fairly seamless a...I don't disagree that it was fairly seamless and did not interrupt the movie going experience. That being said, this is the sort of thing that has a much more noticeable impact, and is more likely to pull me out of the experience on a television. Though it was done well in the theater, once I get that dvd home, it might not be so good.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04360677921180825961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-82984360340671618712012-04-05T21:21:02.458-05:002012-04-05T21:21:02.458-05:00I am not going to be helpful at pointing out other...I am not going to be helpful at pointing out other films that use this same technique, but I can say that being a musician this movie was quite captivating on a level beyond what most people experience.<br /><br />As the people I was watching it with would make comments about some visual effect, I would note some tasteful musical effect. <br /><br />I am a brass musician, so it may be a bit biassed but I thought that this soundtrack added a ton to this production, and the compound triple time signature was a huge part of that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-13711428963188172462012-01-16T08:24:37.455-05:002012-01-16T08:24:37.455-05:00Very interesting, Arnon. I am looking forward to w...Very interesting, Arnon. I am looking forward to watching the movie and discuss it with you.Esthernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-38693522484700118972010-12-23T09:11:32.972-05:002010-12-23T09:11:32.972-05:00The movie also questions whether the Israelis acte...The movie also questions whether the Israelis acted as Nazis. This is discussed in www.eranshorr.comEran Shorrhttp://linktrack.info/.1mz2/azsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-90121070396554947562010-12-11T15:47:19.706-05:002010-12-11T15:47:19.706-05:00Great article, I appreciate your point of view for...Great article, I appreciate your point of view for your article, and I wish you good day the pleasure of reading your future articles.<br />Thanks.Lucky Ace casinohttp://www.lucky-ace-casino.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-61050586359191353382009-07-05T09:00:34.959-05:002009-07-05T09:00:34.959-05:00I just recently saw UP with my sister and we both ...I just recently saw UP with my sister and we both thought it was superb. You make some great points about it being very different from previous Disney/Pixar movies.Matteahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01734797355402743237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-1830435991579903182009-03-25T14:10:00.000-05:002009-03-25T14:10:00.000-05:00Dr. Manhattan can still represent a reader, even t...Dr. Manhattan can still represent a reader, even though we are watching a film. Alternatively, Dr. Manhattan could represent a viewer (who, in this day and age, can also 'flip back and forth' along the duration of a moving image. I don't think that would necessitate such drastic changes.Arnon Z. Shorrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12338457910724144673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-73578610441137516312009-03-25T11:05:00.000-05:002009-03-25T11:05:00.000-05:00This is true to a large extent, but the question i...This is true to a large extent, but the question is, at what point is a story so completely transformed that it becomes a different story? My Fair Lady is not Pygmalion by a long shot, and I think it would have taken that kind of radical transformation to film watchmen properly.<BR/>Take the character of Dr. Manhatten, for example. Scott Eric Kaufman has been arguing that he's a figure of the reader in the original comic book (http://acephalous.typepad.com/acephalous/2009/03/dr-manhattan-as-a-figure-of-reader-of-alan-moores-watchmen.html), and I think he's substantially right. One way in which this works is his ability to see all of time simultaneously, but not to change it in any substantial way, just as a reader can look at one panel, many panels on a page, or flip back and forth within the book to view many pages in close succession. This is not true for the medium of film, where a viewer more or less has to sit down and take in the movie sequentially and at its own pace. Consequently, Dr. Manhattan's power to see the future becomes a kind of useless appendage. It basically became a the sort of thing that characters could point to and say, "See how powerful and detached he is?" I think Dr. Manhattan has to be a very different character in a film of Watchmen, with a very different set of powers. But because the various powers he does have, and his ability to see the future specifically, also impacts on various plot points, that has to change the plot as well. And that's just one example, there are others. By the time you get done with it, you have to say something like "Inspired by Watchmen." Which is fine, but a much more difficult sort of task.Jesse A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02915374000225534617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-36807859133933028972009-03-24T13:20:00.000-05:002009-03-24T13:20:00.000-05:00Jesse, I think that's a fair assessment. But ther...Jesse, I think that's a fair assessment. But there have been all sorts of revolutionary works that have been adapted to the screen... I think that the point is that an adaptation really needs to reflect the differences between the initial medium and the new medium. A movie version of "Watchmen" probably wouldn't convey the deep critiques of comics that the graphic novel conveyed, but that's because if a movie is meta-anything, it's going to be meta-cinematic. I don't believe that stories can be 'unfilmable', only that stories in one medium must undergo transformations in order to 'translate' well in another medium. "Watchmen" in its original form may be impossible to convey on screen, but there must exist numerous versions of the same story that could work beautifully, and the responsibility of anyone who dares to adapt a classic is to find the balance between faithfulness to the original and faithfulness to the demands of the new medium.<BR/><BR/>-AzSArnon Z. Shorrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12338457910724144673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-84419888088717936142009-03-24T12:52:00.000-05:002009-03-24T12:52:00.000-05:00I think a big part of the problem was that the sou...I think a big part of the problem was that the source material was more or less unfilmable as is. Moore's innovations were as much formal as they were related to plot and character. Those sorts of formal innovations don't translate well to another medium. It could have been interesting to try to critique the current run of superhero movies in the way that the original Watchmen critiqued the comic book medium, but that would have been a substantially different movie, and it would have had to deviate from the book significantly. I think the moral may be that when Terry Gilliam gives up on a project because he thinks its unfilmable, he's probably right.Jesse A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02915374000225534617noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-12508062639477234002009-03-24T12:30:00.000-05:002009-03-24T12:30:00.000-05:00Here here: http://www.illdave.com/blog/2008/09/wat...Here here: http://www.illdave.com/blog/2008/09/watchmen-trailer-review.htmlDave M!https://www.blogger.com/profile/08303744052301178342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-56990946704191511352008-05-28T03:51:00.000-05:002008-05-28T03:51:00.000-05:00Good to see you back and writing - and further pro...Good to see you back and writing - and further proof to me that you make one great teacher :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-90088738112761550052007-11-11T03:10:00.000-05:002007-11-11T03:10:00.000-05:00I know what part you mean, the first time I saw "T...I know what part you mean, the first time I saw "The Departed" that scene made me actually like stop for a second. I was like Wow! I think it was more in the misdirection of the scene. When @$%%@#@ steps out, it's just like BANG! It almost makes you feel like blindsided. That's how I felt anyway. Happy someone else felt something from that scene.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-1173217916014615082007-03-06T16:51:00.000-05:002007-03-06T16:51:00.000-05:00oops my ASP wasnt a link but maybe this will be no...oops my ASP wasnt a link but maybe this will be now? <A HREF="http://www.aspthejames.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow"> click here for my ASP! </A> hope that workedJames "Iago" Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01996155087399242712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-1173217837363937682007-03-06T16:50:00.000-05:002007-03-06T16:50:00.000-05:00Hi anron! I wrote about u more inmy ASP, http://ww...Hi anron! I wrote about u more inmy ASP, http://www.aspthejames.blogspot.com OH and also did u watch the OSCARS??! it was fun!! :-) Also i sent u an email a while a go about the guy in californya making my films, but maube u have been busy too respond. Thankx!James "Iago" Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01996155087399242712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-1168551147832735452007-01-11T16:32:00.000-05:002007-01-11T16:32:00.000-05:00oh an also my ASP is http://aspthejames.blogspot.c...oh an also my ASP is http://aspthejames.blogspot.com just for ur readers who mnay not know thxJames "Iago" Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01996155087399242712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20307883.post-1168551099973851992007-01-11T16:31:00.000-05:002007-01-11T16:31:00.000-05:00Hi ARNon! I was just re reading ur blog again bc i...Hi ARNon! I was just re reading ur blog again bc it teaches me how my ASP can be better lol! But omg i just noticed that u havent posted since october (McTober... see my ASP for what this means :-) )and so maybe thats bc ur too busy? i hope u have time to update bc i love to read this too!<BR/>Thanx for being such a good teacheer and for those of u who dont know aRNon is going to do an intrerview for my ASP!<BR/>(ps I say aRNron bc i used to say his name Anron lol!)James "Iago" Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01996155087399242712noreply@blogger.com