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@anishmoonka The decision not to shoot Collateral on film has nothing to do with technicalities. There were other reasons why Mann had to decide on digital, especially with a digital camera that was in its infancy that time. Even ahead of its time it became obsolete today.

Michael Mann couldn't shoot Collateral on film. The cameras couldn't see Los Angeles at night the way he wanted. So he picked a digital camera no other major Hollywood movie had used. The crew was still building parts for it during the shoot. Mann was chasing a specific look. Around 10 or 11pm in LA winters, a low cloud bank drifts in off the ocean and settles about 1,200 feet up. The orange sodium streetlamps below light up the bottom of those clouds and turn the whole sky into a soft, hazy glow. Mann said it looked like winter in England. Movie film couldn't see that. To shoot a single downtown block clearly, the crew would have had to bring in massive lights and brighten up entire streets just to make the buildings visible. Even with the lens open as wide as it goes to pull in any available light, almost nothing outside the foreground would stay in focus. The camera Mann picked was the Thomson Viper, brand new and not really ready for production. There was no memory card or storage inside the body. It had to be plugged into a separate hard drive with a cable. About 80% of Collateral was shot digital. The other 20% on regular film was mostly the Korean nightclub shootout, where the bright club lighting gave the crew plenty to work with. The coyote scene only exists because of the digital camera. Mann didn't plan it. A small pack of coyotes wandered across an empty street between takes, and because the camera could see in near-darkness, the crew just rolled. On film, that shot would have required lighting up the whole intersection first. The helicopter shots over the city work the same way. Palm trees against the night sky, the downtown skyline lit only by the city's own light. On 35mm film, none of that would have shown up. The movie cost $65 million to make and earned $220 million worldwide. It won Best Cinematography at the BAFTAs, the British version of the Oscars, and helped push Hollywood toward digital cameras for night shoots. One catch. That orange light Mann chased is mostly gone now. Starting in 2009, LA began replacing its sodium vapor streetlamps with white LEDs. By 2013 the city had swapped out 141,000 of them. Today the lighting system is 98% LED. The Los Angeles you see in Collateral doesn't exist anymore.

@KhaosodEnglish Don’t blame the train driver! This accident would have never happened if the bus driver, for that matter, most Thai motorist obey basic traffic rules

The black box findings from the train-bus crash shows the train driver applied the emergency brake 100 metres before impact, but it was far too late to stop in time. Authorities said a full stop requires up to 2 kilometres of braking distance. #Thailand #Bangkok

@dana916 So , people are walking in the snow. What does this video prove about the shooting down of an F-16?! Subject missed go back to your place…

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 It is reported about the shooting down of an F-16 fighter jet of the Ukrainian Armed Forces using the Russian S-300 air defense system. "We planned this operation for a very long time. We tracked and waited. Our opponent highly praises these aircraft ad indestructible but it's not the case: they also fall down," said the commander of the anti-aircraft missile system division with the call sign "Sever". FRWL

@KimDotcom x.com/4554Steevy/sta…

Let me summarize: Refuses to release Epstein files Alienates Greene and Massie Bombs 7 nations. Wants peace prize Kidnapped leader of sovereign country Wants Greenland from NATO member Gives Ukraine $800B “prosperity” Lies about ICE shooting (hospital) MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN?

Remember that moment when George Yeo,former foreign minister of Singapore, was demonstrating a far deeper grasp of European history and its conflicts than most Western politicians will ever have?

The President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has declared that his country’s time under the Soviet Union was a period of KGB occupation. In response, Russia released an archived ID of the chief 'occupier' from that era — the president’s own father Gaydar Aliyev:

"He knew it was a hoax and I knew it was a hoax" — Trump and Putin Meet in Alaska for Peace Summit

@mtmalinen @ZelenskyyUa

@TheCinesthetic Man called Adam

What is the best movie you've ever seen that is about musicians?

@TheCinesthetic Le Samourai

Name the best French movie you've ever seen.

Alexey Navalny's right-hand man, Vladimir Ashurkov, directly asking a British MI6 officer for Tens of Millions of Dollars to deliver a "Color Revolution" in Russia. The "blameless" Navalny was also CIA asset. Reality hurts

@Cynthia95001250 @Alex_Oloyede2 Kiev

@Alex_Oloyede2 Learn to spell. It's Kyiv, not Kiev. Also everything said:

‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainians/Russians in Odessa are celebrating as the Russian army is striking bases and military installments across the city. A symbol to Kiev that Odessa is Russian.

@BTindemark @WarHunter2222 This was not a random attack. All foreign thugs who came to Ukr. will be hit and hit hard. You thought you will concur Russia? Learn history first before you make such an unqualified comment

@WarHunter2222 The military-Orcs must be the absolutely worst and most incompetent military in the history. It is all about brain-less destruction in other territories. No strategy or tactics with stupid demolition of private infrastructure that creates more hatred for everything Russian! Why?

🚨🇷🇺🚨Wonderful views of Odessa's Hotel Bristol, where Norwegian "diplomats" were staying. I hope the bartender managed to escape🚨🇷🇺🚨

@TheMonologist The Hawk ( El Gavian ) song performed by Marian Faithful

Out of the 80K MAGA 🇺🇲 accounts following me, I often wonder how many of you actually exist. Give me a Thumps-Up👍, if you see this!!!

@MatCMeier Ungarn erhält durch Turkstream NGL.

Dass die Ukraine während 3 Kriegsjahren immer noch russisches Gas durchgeleitet hat und damit ihre vertraglichen Verpflichtungen erfüllte, bleibt für mich einer der bizarrsten Aspekte dieses Kriegs. Per heute 01.01.2025 ist jetzt aber Schluss damit. Dies wird die Slowakei und Ungarn zwingen, sich neu zu orientieren und bewirkt durch die erzwungene Unabhängigkeit von russischem Erdgas auch politische Neuorientierung. Für Fico und Orban ist durch Putin Support noch weniger zu gewinnen als bereits bis jetzt.

@TheCinesthetic Le Samourai

what is the best French film?

@TheCinesthetic Le Samourai by Jean-Pierre Melville

RT @ricwe123: "Moderate rebels" winning the hearts and minds of Syrian minorities in villages near Latakia...... x.com/ricwe123/statu…

@Honsdakritische @ozzy1871ozzy Aufnahmen aus dem Jahr 1982 belichtet auf großformatigen Analog Film, haben bessere Auflösung, Kontrast als jede Digital in HD aufgenommene Bild

@ozzy1871ozzy Sorry, aber ich glaub nicht, dass es 1982 schon HD-Aufnahmen gab 😜