
So why are so many filmmakers keeping the lights low? The simple answer is: because they can. It’s been a decade since digital video overtook the use of celluloid, and by 2016 more than 90% of films were shot digitally. One change wrought by this technology is that directors now have video monitors on set to show them exactly what the cameras are capturing. They can see immediately whether all of the details they need are there on screen, so they can experiment with lower lighting.
This is a nonsense cop-out. Of course they’re going to tell you it’s for “realism,” “tone,” and “experimentation.” That makes them sound like serious auteurs. They’d never tell you that it’s because they’re shooting on a greenscreen, and the effects won’t be finished until a month before the movie releases, so they have only the faintest idea what the backgrounds will look like, and it’s easier for everyone involved to simply not light the set and let everything get brightened or darkened in post. They won’t tell you that because it’s embarrassing. It’s embarrassing they’re making these goofy cash-grab movies for megacompanies and paying their VFX artists barely anything. It’s embarrassing they’re working under these conditions, selling out. So they tell the people at the BBC they’re making art.
P.S. I’m annoyed The Batman got added to this list when it was a good looking movie. “Dark” is not the same as “flat and bland”.
trying to gauge how common this is — have you ever been to the cinema by yourself?
no
yes, a couple of times
yes, regularly
I never go the cinema/see results
Sorry I’m late, I got added to the Wild Hunt last night and ran and reveled with them for what felt like 100 years plus a day until I landed the killing blow on a stag with bronze antlers then suddenly woke in my bed, willow leaves in my hair, a nameless song echoing in my ears, and my hands still bloody, so yeah, totally missed my alarm and stuff.
am i insane or should masks be mandated for hospitals as a permanent installation. a forever institution. always. covid is an irrelevant factor when hospitals are always full of both very sick and very immunocompromised people..?
never beating the only capable of doing one task a day allegations
Throwback to when I put my name as Dante Alighieri on Academia.edu and received this email
Meme news: The Brazilian actress Renata Sorrah came out as bisexual at the age of 76
That’s her, btw
She’s an icon and also very talented. We Stan.
I always am about to go to sleep at a beautiful 11pm and then something happens to me