Oh, and while the French Dispatch wasn't my favourite, this 70-second scene is really a piece of art and science. Jeffrey Wright always knocks it out of the park and had to nail this.
The problem with aiming for perfection is if it is just a tiny bit off, it's all the more noticeable. And for me, from the second I hit play all I could see was the slight tilt of the camera(tiny clockwise rotation) that is noticeable in every room with straight lines near the top.
Could have fixed it in post.
It also looks to maybe have a very slight amount of barrel lens distortion.
The problem with aiming for perfection is if it is just a tiny bit off, it's all the more noticeable. And for me, from the second I hit play all I could see was the slight tilt of the camera(tiny clockwise rotation) that is noticeable in every room with straight lines near the top.
I love most of his stuff. This is his thing. If you don't nail it, it looks off. What's weird about critique?
Because it’s not real critique, it’s film school fart sniffer stuff.
Without sounding equally fart sniffing, I think that if you think perfection is the intent then you’re missing the point, which is fine to miss the point because it’s just a movie so who cares, but then critiquing it based on that gets silly.
Because it’s not real critique, it’s film school fart sniffer stuff.
Without sounding equally fart sniffing, I think that if you think perfection is the intent then you’re missing the point, which is fine to miss the point because it’s just a movie so who cares, but then critiquing it based on that gets silly.
Is perfection not the intent of these shots?
I'm a hobby photographer, and pay a lot of attention to level horizons because they can ruin a great photo if you get it a little wrong. There are countless blogs about unlevel horizons, so this isn't just a me thing. Never been to art school. Just something that immediately caught my eye, because technique is such a big part of what he does. Maybe my eyes are just too perfect.
I'm a hobby photographer, and pay a lot of attention to level horizons because they can ruin a great photo if you get it a little wrong. There are countless blogs about unlevel horizons, so this isn't just a me thing. Never been to art school. Just something that immediately caught my eye, because technique is such a big part of what he does. Maybe my eyes are just too perfect.
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I'm a hobby photographer, and pay a lot of attention to level horizons because they can ruin a great photo if you get it a little wrong. There are countless blogs about unlevel horizons, so this isn't just a me thing. Never been to art school. Just something that immediately caught my eye, because technique is such a big part of what he does. Maybe my eyes are just too perfect.
Lambs to the cosmic slaughter!
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Saw Tron: Ares last night, was actually much better than I expected it to be. Saw it on the ScreenX theatre (which is the three-sided screens), which made the experience that much more fun for a graphic-heavy movie like this.
As a fan of the Tron franchise, I still wish they ran with Gerret Hedlund (protagonist) and Cillian Murphy (antagonist) for the third movie, but whatevs. Jared Leto wasn't terrible, and while I thought the writing as a bit overdone (it didn't have to be this complicated with AI) and there were some obvious plotholes (uh, Quorra got out just fine in #2...), but the action was fun. Wish they spent a bit more time exploring the grid though, like #1 and #2 did. Loved the tribute to #1 in this movie though!
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I'm a hobby photographer, and pay a lot of attention to level horizons because they can ruin a great photo if you get it a little wrong. There are countless blogs about unlevel horizons, so this isn't just a me thing. Never been to art school. Just something that immediately caught my eye, because technique is such a big part of what he does. Maybe my eyes are just too perfect.
From my own education about movies and really good filmmakers, along with countless interviews I've read about their decisions in key scenes, the good ones have intent behind every choice. I can think of few other directors who are more intentional than Anderson in their choices in a scene. Everything he does is with purpose. You can assume that if there's a "flaw" in the shot, it's done on purpose to create an effect in the audience.
And no, filmmaking is almost never about being perfect, it's about evoking a unconscious response in the audience.
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From my own education about movies and really good filmmakers, along with countless interviews I've read about their decisions in key scenes, the good ones have intent behind every choice. I can think of few other directors who are more intentional than Anderson in their choices in a scene. Everything he does is with purpose. You can assume that if there's a "flaw" in the shot, it's done on purpose to create an effect in the audience.
And no, filmmaking is almost never about being perfect, it's about evoking a unconscious response in the audience.
Yes, I'm sure he intended for the shot to be just a hair off of his usually perfect framing. What was I thinking.
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Yes, I'm sure he intended for the shot to be just a hair off of his usually perfect framing. What was I thinking.
It was the DP who set up the shot, which was extremely complicated to pull off. Either they didn't notice the tilt or they decided it wasn't worth another take because only one nerd out of a million would notice it.
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Considering the typical fart sniffer that enjoys Wes Anderson films it's funny to see people busting someone's chops for being overly critical of a fart sniffing portion of one of his films. I'd think that was exactly the point.
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