It’s fascinating to see box-office domination by Hollywood spectacles that satisfy visual effects as a recent phenomenon. And in fact, there was a period when it wasn’t. For example, the “New Hollywood” that began in the late 1960s, when the old studio system handed the reins to inventive young guns like Peter Bogdanovic, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scozes. But as we don’t forget, the move met its end in the face of competition for blockbusters in the late 1970s jaw and Star Warsa new kind of huge hit that marks the return to the simple thrills of silent films.
Even a century ago, many film fans expected two experiences more than anything else. It’s about surprise and making you laugh. It’s no wonder that the times saw visual comedians like Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. He has become a part of the world’s most famous actors as well as the world’s most famous people.
Staying at the top requires not only serious performance skills, but equally serious technical creativity, as explained. new It was lost in time The above video. It disrupts the way Lloyd, Keaton and Chaplin have retracted some of the career-defined stunts on the film, and places the actual clips along the CGI reconstruction of the set as they saw while filming.
When Lloyd hangs from his watch’s wrist above downtown Los Angeles Finally, it’s safe! (1923), he really hangs above downtown Los Angeles. However, although the set was built on top of a building, photographed from carefully selected angles. When the entire facade of the house falls around Keaton Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), leaving him standing in an unharmed standing with the window frame, the facade actually fell around him – in a precisely choreographed way. When a blindfolded Chaplin skates at risk of a multistory drop present day (1936), he is completely safe, and the edge of the floor is merely a matte painting. One of the film’s magical analog technologies is that no matter how expensive CGI is, it doesn’t thrill or thrill the same thrill or amuse at all.
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