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This is one of the best examples of misunderstanding a shot. Look at abyssal difference between these two. In Chung's original animation the scene builds up towards the eye that is setup to function like a venus flytrap. It's insidious, it meets your expectation even though it makes no sense. The shot is so simple and controlled, you arw drawn to the trap (the curving lock of hair guides us). Look atbthe movie, it just looks like a fly flew accidentlaly into her eye out of nowhere, just randomly.

@AndrewZ24597481 i know actually as a concept it would make for a great alternative timeline movie

@vikare06 lol probably not but also that would be sick

If Mel Gibson directed The Odyssey

@Dav66352635859 it's not the same, facial structure is different

This is Athena, goddess of wisdom and war. AI reconstruction based on the "Athena of Velletri" a Roman copy of a lost Greek bronze from 430 BC. #Athena #AncientGreece #AIArt #GreekMythology #AncientHistory

Third entry in my counter-examples to Nolan's Odyssey. Fellini's Satyricon (1969). An adaptation of a Roman novel written by Petronius, 1st century AD, fragmentary and unfinished, written under Nero, describing Roman society like a fever dream: corrupt, delirious, fleshy, utterly decadent. Nolan would have found a dozen clever ways to finish it, logically writing the narrative's missing pieces, packaging the chaos into something contemporary audiences could follow, while treating historical accuracy as something he can use or not. The result I bet would have been an ambitious big film that completely domesticates everything wild about the source. Fellini did the opposite. He took everything specific about the book and turned it to eleven. More delirium, more excess, more obscenity, more beauty, more absurdity, more, more, more and more of everything. And the film ends mid-sentence, like the book. Only this time, the unfinishedness is an authorial gesture that makes it even more startling. Fellini said he treated it like science fiction. By doing so, he freed himself from any obligation of historical fidelity before anyone could ask. He took the Satyricon completely into his own hands to make it what it needed to be. The choice was obviously not innocent. Fellini thought with good reason that this novel of the first century had something to say to audiences in 1969, and it did. Nolan did the opposite with the Odyssey: he chose to treat cinema as a reliable translator to bring the story from the past to today's audiences and tell them: these people were just like us, just humans, and you can be a hero in your own life too, and I'm going to make ancient Greece look like a Los Angeles Starbucks to hammer that point. But the ancients didn't think that way. Not everybody could become a hero. They were excessive, alien, often monstrous, operating by codes we no longer share and can barely imagine. Fellini was Italian and this Roman story was his cultural inheritance, his to claim, his to make familiar if he wanted to. He chose instead to film it as a violently foreign world, alien in the science fiction sense, and that choice is precisely what lets us in. We recognize ourselves just enough to step inside, stay disoriented enough to actually see them, and we discover people at once so much like us and so little like us. Anyway, enough about Nolan. Don't miss the opportunity to watch the masterpiece that is Fellini's Satyricon. I can only give you so many screenshots. Experience its madness for real with the beautiful restorations available today. Fair warning though, it's a wild ride, made on purpose to make people uncomfortable on many different levels. You've been warned. But it's worth it!

@OutofGalaxyy put the ass in assistance

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@jtimsuggs i don't think he had even thought of Geonosians at the time though, no?

The fact that there are no guardrails in this area because the Death Star was designed by Geonosians that could just fly away in case of an emergency is honestly such a great detail.

Can be elevated further

@AngusTPaterson well I am definitely convinced now

@vikare06 It's some of the best Star Wars ever, and for me it really zeroed in on a bunch of them themes that had resonated with me in the original trilogy. Gave me a new appreciation of George Lucas's worldbuilding. Definitely watch it!

I enjoyed Rogue One but hated everything else Disney made so far, but I haven't watched any of the series. Do you think I would enjoy Andor, should I give it a try? The screengrabs I have seen so far are mixed, some shots look really good, other shots praised as good look very mediocre.

@juksaren ok then I will give it a go

@vikare06 One of the best series ive seen independent og the universe it is set in

@Exysay_Eastbay ah damn I hate that

@vikare06 Andor is good but could be compressed to half it's length if every character didn't have to rephrase what they had to say 4 times. Maybe it's part of the "writing TV for people who are also on their phones" thing?

@GigoloIncognito Is it easy to draw such comparison or is it a stretch?

@vikare06 I loved it but I understand that a right wing viewer might find it insufferable if they make too much parallels to the Trump administration in their mind while watching it. I think the Empire resembles totalitarian socialist societies almost as much as right wing ones.

@DanDavisWrites interesting, then I will give it a go

@vikare06 Andor season 1 was very well structured and written. The sets and acting were good for a TV show too, generally. Haven't seen the second one.

@DoctorRedoric they are, simplest and most effective tools

@vikare06 Reflectors and bounces are your friends when it comes to lighting

Lighting setup vs Final shot From "The Thin Red Line" (1998) directed by Terrence Malick. The film praised for its naturalistic look, still required active work on set by cinematographer John Toll to shape the light as needed to achieve Malick's vision.

John Toll's work here is tasteful and subtle when trying to shape the light on Colonel Gaff's face

You'd find someone like this in a Miyazaki anime

I said it's not a simple monster, it is supposed to represent uncivilized people. Yes he eats humans and has 1 eye, but he cares about his sheep and even considers the rules of hospitality. A monster is not something you try to reason with, like Hydra or Cerberos. But why even try to understand what I write, I am just a retard.

@FireFriendd @mehughes124 my original post

@vikare06 @mehughes124 Overcast? You can literally see a light patch behind him.

Yuji Ohno, the Legendary Japanese Jazz composer known for many works such as 'LUPIN III', has regrettably passed away at age 84