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Re: KUDOS ON THAT EPIPHANY by Fullofkittens 03/20/2005, 10:53am PST
Choson wrote:



On a related note, I suppose it's kind of funny that Lucas feels he's saving money by building all his sets greenscreen, but if they'd actually spend some of that big wad of cash he's got on flying people to real locations, I think it'd probably improve the new movies at least... 25%. Back in the day, they'd fly to Tunisia and Norway to film their scenes, and I'm sorry to say that greenscreen sets still aren't really at the level of realism. Even Peter Jackson knew to film on location (plus you get the added benefit of tourist dollars for those locales, as legions of nerds descend to pay homage).


Plus, as all the actors in the LOTR movies commented, it's a hell of a lot easier to figure out how to pitch your acting at an epic scale when you're looking at huge mountains and valleys and stone citadels than it would be if they had been staring at a big blank wall with Sharpie on it to indicate where they should be looking. ("Mountains.")

That really comes through in the final product - the actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be reciting in the new Star Wars movies... how could they do anything else? There was nothing to play against. I think it was... Stroheim?... that famously made his actors and actresses do hundreds of takes just so that he could get emotionally dead performances out of them where they didn't fuck up his vision with their "acting." It turns out that you don't need to go to all that trouble: just stick an actor in an empty room with no scenery, no other actors, and a shitload of cameras and you're there already.
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                                                you were like cyborg, and i was all Huh? but then you explained it, THANX by bombMexico 03/22/2005, 1:18am PST NEW
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                                    Re: I guess you figured nobody googles anymore. by Electronic Arts & Zseni 03/21/2005, 4:37pm PST NEW
                                        Re: I guess you figured nobody googles anymore. by FABIO 03/21/2005, 4:51pm PST NEW
                                        Re: I guess you figured nobody googles anymore. by Casual observer 03/21/2005, 5:47pm PST NEW
                                            You mean nothing, Z-grade irrelevant little pedant. NT by Electronic Arts & Zseni 03/21/2005, 6:16pm PST NEW
                                                I am but ashes, while you're just blubber. NT by Casual observer 03/21/2005, 6:25pm PST NEW
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                                            DEAR ZSENI: NOTICE ME by Love, BDR 03/21/2005, 10:10pm PST NEW
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                                                            Agreed! NT by Casual observer 03/22/2005, 2:03pm PST NEW
                                        Re: I guess you figured nobody googles anymore. by Mischief Maker 03/22/2005, 10:49am PST NEW
                                            Re: I guess you figured nobody googles anymore. by Love, BDR 03/22/2005, 10:54am PST NEW
                                                Re: I guess you figured nobody googles anymore. by Casual observer 03/22/2005, 11:07am PST NEW
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                                                        Re: I guess you figured nobody googles anymore. by Mischief Maker 03/23/2005, 7:29am PST NEW
                                                            Re: I guess you figured nobody googles anymore. by Zseni: Warrior-Poet 03/23/2005, 11:14am PST NEW
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                                                                            Don't forget to add that manga is Chinese too. by Fussbett 03/23/2005, 3:38pm PST NEW
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                            Re: Sad Sorry Star Wars Story by laudablepuss 03/21/2005, 12:03pm PST NEW
                                Maybe if you laced the radio in his car with dutrium. NT by The Elusive Robert Denby 03/21/2005, 1:37pm PST NEW
                                    THERE WASN'T A GRAM OF DUTRIUM IN THAT JET NT by Brian Doyle-Murray, Pharmacist 03/21/2005, 1:37pm PST NEW
                                        It was sabotage. That means Bob Denby. NT by Leonard 03/21/2005, 2:13pm PST NEW
                                            Rigid grille structure, cargo hold, et cetera (nt) by balistic 03/30/2005, 3:57pm PST NEW
                                Sometimes an oblivious troll is the most effective of all {mysterious music} NT by bink 03/22/2005, 8:14pm PST NEW
                            Re: Sad Sorry Star Wars Story by John Williams 03/21/2005, 1:47pm PST NEW
                            Ah, fuck all that boring boo-hoo bullshit. by Bill Dungsroman 03/21/2005, 3:13pm PST NEW
                                Re: Ah, fuck all that boring boo-hoo bullshit. by John Gulp 01/05/2023, 8:09pm PST NEW
                why doesn't he just make "star wars" in space? NT by Anime Scholar 03/30/2005, 9:33am PST NEW
                    I wonder who this dude is talking too or about. NT by Fussbett 03/30/2005, 2:11pm PST NEW
                        He's saying "star wars in space" would trump my "titanic in space". AS IF NT by CGI George Lucas 03/30/2005, 2:15pm PST NEW
                a brief moment of light by bombMexico 04/02/2005, 4:54pm PST NEW
                    Re: a brief moment of light by Bill Dungsroman 04/02/2005, 7:44pm PST NEW
                        Re: a brief moment of light by Mischief Maker 04/02/2005, 8:25pm PST NEW
                        Lucas dyslexia - a disease for dorks by bombMexico 04/02/2005, 10:02pm PST NEW
                            Re: Lucas dyslexia - a disease for dorks by JW 04/09/2005, 2:35am PDT NEW
                                You'll notice nobody actually said they weren't going to see it. by Bill Dungsroman 04/09/2005, 11:58am PDT NEW
                                    I'm not going to see it. NT by Creexul :( 04/09/2005, 1:28pm PDT NEW
                                        Those chairs aren't going to paint themselves!!! NT by Moom 04/09/2005, 1:32pm PDT NEW
                                            I could paint a million chairs to see a million movies and still not see SW3. NT by Creexul :( 04/12/2005, 8:45pm PDT NEW
                                Re: Lucas dyslexia - a disease for dorks by Fussbett 04/09/2005, 12:28pm PDT NEW
                                Lucas apologists i liken to Nazi apologists by bombMexico 04/10/2005, 1:58am PDT NEW
                                prequels are what happens when ideas run out NT by FABIO 04/10/2005, 2:48am PDT NEW
                                    =( NT by God of War 2 04/12/2005, 8:19pm PDT NEW
 
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