tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433006.post110150017182514443..comments2024-01-05T17:25:30.703+00:00Comments on Blah blah blah: more opinionspaulhdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07927319711682494407noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433006.post-1101822217636532702004-11-30T13:43:00.000+00:002004-11-30T13:43:00.000+00:00Deakin's work on Barton Fink is amazing, didn't kn...Deakin's work on Barton Fink is amazing, didn't know he did anything for the Muppets, that's really cool.<br />Geoffrey Unsworth was a great DP, his work on Superman was brilliant, he also did a film I was a big fan of as a kid, 'The Assassination Bureau'. Dean Cundy did pheonominal work with John Carpenter but recently seems to be working on some seriously lame films, mind you Carpenter's not exactly at the top of his game either. I've become quite interested in DP's recently, I never really paid attention to them but was always impressed by the 'look' of films, I just credited the directors and left it at that. With DVD extras directors seem to spend a lot of time honouring their DP's, the Amreican Beauty DVD is a perfect example.paulhdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07927319711682494407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433006.post-1101765187301023602004-11-29T21:53:00.000+00:002004-11-29T21:53:00.000+00:00Deakins is a genius, in so far as I can tell anywa...Deakins is a genius, in so far as I can tell anyway. It was rather heartening to see that he once did a documentary on the Muppet Show back in the 70's. It's one of the extras on the first set of DVD's...Dannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783924982506695153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433006.post-1101674809956606912004-11-28T20:46:00.000+00:002004-11-28T20:46:00.000+00:00And if anyone knows what they're talking about it'...And if anyone knows what they're talking about it's Deakins. It would be nice to see CGI used to a more abstract or impressionistic effect, maybe when some small enterprising indie director does it some big budget blockbuster'll copy it.<br />I guess I'm hoping Simian will be the focus for the kid's who might read his adventure, fingers crossed!paulhdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07927319711682494407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7433006.post-1101666130125043912004-11-28T18:22:00.000+00:002004-11-28T18:22:00.000+00:00CGI should look 'unreal', that's the beauty of it....CGI should look 'unreal', that's the beauty of it. Trying to ape a naturalistic look seems kind of futile to me, when you can doing someting more imaginiative with it, and more of the imagination. Roger Deakins made a really interesting point about digital stuff to the effectv tht it will mean that coinematographers will get to the same point as painters did in terms of depicting a realistic world. Once painting got sophisticated enough to be able to depict the world as we see it, they went the other way, and pursued more abstratcted images. Digital and CGI technology offers much the same opportunity to the medium of film. <br /><br />Re: your concerns about the dificulty of selling Simian. True, it doesn't feature a central child character, but it does feature an animal which is the next best thing. I always thought it'd be easier for a child to relate to an animal character than a human one. Anyway, I reckon it might not be as difficult as you might fear.Dannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783924982506695153noreply@blogger.com