Word: visualizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about Whale. Whale talking to Boone about his buddies talking to Boone about Whale. Enough. This is not to say that what Gods and Monsters needs is less talking and more explosions. It just seems that the My Dinner with Andr‚ school of filmmaking, in neglecting the visual and visceral possibilities of the screen, inevitably seems more fit for the stage...
...endlessly repeated by hand (one Pixar program instantly covers a creature's body with pockmarks), computers cut that time dramatically. Such efficiencies haven't yet made animated films much cheaper, of course; actually producing movies for less money would violate the laws of Hollywood physics. "The cost for visual images comes down every year," says Carl Rosendahl, president of Pacific Data Images, which did effects for Antz. "But you'd rarely want to do today the same thing you did yesterday. So the per-shot cost doesn't drop, but your money buys things you couldn't even imagine five...
Breathing life into the new movie's verdant vistas and insect masses presented precisely the sort of complex problems that digital innovators live for--that thrilling "You're kidding!" moment when the boss hands out a visual wish list for the tech guys to make come true. A recent tour of the Pixar studio, hidden in the freeway sprawl east of San Francisco, made clear how projects like A Bug's Life erase the boundaries between technology and art. Model builders sculpt clay facsimiles of the film's characters. Traditional animators act out roles before video cameras to decide just...
...contradiction in terms. Benigni believes in his film's title, and it is this optimism which makes the movie's unlikely concept work. This celebration of the imagination in the face of so much reality--not just in the movie's plot but in its whole visual and emotional style--is a brave choice that will make this film a classic. See this movie for a reminder of the wonderful heights that film can achieve and for the at-long-last American arrival of a major international talent. Erwin R. Rosenberg...
Pleasantville charms, and on the visual level, it dazzles. Half comedy, half fable, it flips the premise of The Truman Show, presenting a TV world made up of potential Trumans who need an outsider to help transform the fake into reality. Brother and sister are transported into the 50s television show "Pleasantville." David tries to keep the show going as scripted while his sister Jennifer immediately rebels. As the semi-robotic citizens gradually come to life, splashes of color begin to permeate the black-and-white world. The process is best represented in the paintings of Jeff Daniels' inarticulate soda...