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In Reply to: That movie, 300? Saw it yesterday. And ya know what? It ain't half bad! posted by clarkjohnsen on April 1, 2007 at 11:19:20:
"First: Often have I put myself on record as detesting CGI, but here we have a situation where the original work *was* drawn, so CGI -- as an elaborate form of pen-and-ink -- fits in commendably. At least I was never disturbed by that aspect, just as I do not demand filmic realism in my comix."while there is extensive CGI in this movie I think i should point out that it was indeed filmed with real actors on actual sets with, gasp, real film. The deep back grounds were all CGI as well as a few other things like the elephants and the rhino. But this was filmed. And though the process (we called it the crush) was done digitally it was in many was more like an old school film process where the dynamic range was literally crushed to black out the darks and blow out the highlights.The crush also reduced the over all color saturation and skewed the color spectrum towards yellow for day and blue for night. they even added film grain to make it look more film like.
"A word about the men's brief costumes. They work very much in the spirit of comic books, and the actors move in them most masculinely. The Persians, however -- led by a King Xerxes channeling Jaye Davidson's Ra from Stargate -- in other words, a big fag (if I may), and in this case a *really* big fag -- are completely and conventionally clothed, possibly because they don't want to give Xerxes any ideas.'While the Persians were more covered than the Spartans I wouldn't call their costumes conventional. As for Xerxes, he was not intended to be a "big fag." Our intentions were to make him androgenous and overtly narcissistic. More a decadent omnisexual rather than homosexual. I'm not sure if we just failed or were simply the victims of certain subtle prejudices in this case.
But I really do like your review. I think you nailed the movie and the intentions of the movie makers.
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Leonidas looked particularly ripped more so than the rest. Also, he showed heroic amounts of lower teeth when speaking as some other Spartans did occasionally.And, if this was an "American" film were there no "American" actors to speak of?
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"Doris, I have always loved you." Click, buzzzzzz.
Ephialtes enlarged eye. It was animated in post. The ripped bodies were the result of hard training , extensive airbrushed makeup and soft overhead lighting. As for the teeth, they did tend to blow out in the crush. Gerry was often trying to mimic the expressions of Leonidas in the graphic novel. I did everything I could short of prosthetics to make him look exactly like Miller's drawings.
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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