the need for "realism" in films

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In Reply to: Clark, very nice review. (disclaimer, i was the makeup department head so I am highly biased) a few notes... posted by Analog Scott on April 1, 2007 at 11:48:00:

While I understand that CGI is used for a huge amount of what is NOT what we outsiders used to call special effects, and that this is both quicker/cheaper/easier than, for example, finding areas of a city you could blow up at will... and repeatedly... there is not, to my mind, a need for cinema to copy the real world.
If I want real I can watch Big Brother... sorry, couldn't resist! If I want real I can go out on the street.
From Cinema I want MORE.
I want a "reality" that pulls me in and that I can believe in for the length of the film.
Children will watch a Punch And Judy show and laugh and get scared (by a hand held crocodile sock puppet!!) without a thought for if it is "real".
I hope I can still do that myself.
Over the last couple of years I have seen any number of films where there is no attempt to make them real, but a lot of time and effort put into creating a reality. Sin City. A Scanner Darkly.
I think the artificiality is no handicap to the believability of a film.
Opera isn't "real".
Reading isn't real, but has the advantage of letting us fill in our own pictures fired directly our imaginations.
Music isn't real.
But they are very real when in the presence of talented performance (I hesitate to say genius as having been in the music business I am aware of the repetition and grind of repeated performance).
A film is more something akin to an acid trip where its reality is based in "real" reality, but is transformed into a big dipper of a ride for 2 hours and which takes you somewhere, somewhere you couldn't imagine yourself.

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Topic - That movie, 300? Saw it yesterday. And ya know what? It ain't half bad! - clarkjohnsen 11:19:20 04/01/07 (7)

That limited pallete is what fooled me into thinking my - Duilawyer 20:26:24 04/01/07 (1)

Not really - Analog Scott 02:40:47 04/02/07 (0)

Clark, very nice review. (disclaimer, i was the makeup department head so I am highly biased) a few notes... - Analog Scott 11:48:00 04/01/07 (4)

My "fag" description was drawn from audience comments overheard afterwards. nt - clarkjohnsen 08:27:33 04/02/07 (0)

Any CGI on the characters themselves? - mr grits 19:49:36 04/01/07 (1)

They were all practical makeups. The only CGI on any character was... - Analog Scott 02:45:11 04/02/07 (0)

the need for "realism" in films - dave c 13:39:17 04/01/07 (0)

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