Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by jamesgarvin (A) on December 28, 2005 at 17:08:34

In Reply to: Re: "So good you never know there was any digital effect done." Now we're cooking with gas! posted by Analog Scott on December 28, 2005 at 10:03:57:

Your point is well taken. While not CGI, the same point can be made with the recent Cinderalla Man. I learn during the final fight scene that most of the people in the crowd were not people, but were dummies. They could not afford to fill an arena full of extra actors. During the film, with some camera and lighting tricks, those dummies were not noticeable as such. After learning they are dummies, and watching those scenes again, they are dummies. I suspect that we watch scenes in films of real objects not knowing they are CGI, because we do not question their reality. They look real, because they are real, somewhere. Our brains never take over. On the other hand, in LOTR and Jurassic Park, there are no special effects that can fool us to believe there are really dinosaurs on the screen because we know there are no dinosaurs, whether they look real or not, we know they are fake. Our brains know better, and instruct our eyes.