I think that the European style of movies is just what they are used to seeing. We have had music in fight scenes since sound in film here. I think that there's too much dependence on special effects and over compensating of movement. A lot of the stuff we see now is after 15 years of overcompensation that no one under 35 know how to shoot a film without it.
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Keith Johnson <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > > > Some of it may have been the time and money, but I think more of it was > director's aesthetic tastes. In watching "The Book of Eli" a couple of weeks > ago, I was impressed at how the Hughes brothers had more of an old school > take on cinematography. The fight scenes were brief but brutal, and I could > see everything very well. They used wide shots, pan-and-zoom, to let me take > everything in, without all the crazy quick cuts and multiple angles a lot of > other directors use. I really think directors like Scorsese, Redford, Spike > Lee, etc., just think it's a better way to tell a story. note that in > Britain, Mexico, France, and other countries, there's a lot less of this > music video type direction than in American film. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mr. Worf" <hellomahog...@gmail.com> > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Sunday, February 7, 2010 2:30:01 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight > > > > I think that they had to stick to stagnant angles in older movies because > they usually only had one or two cameras running at once, because they > couldn't afford more than that. If they wanted multiple angles they would > reset the scene then reshoot it. > > Now they can afford to rent 10 or 20 cameras and set them up at 50 angles > and record them all in one take. > > The thing with big actors is that they don't want to take direction from > the director. So some of them believe whatever their point of view is, is > more valid than the director's vision. Which I believe is wrong! > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Keith Johnson > <keithbjohn...@comcast.net>wrote: > >> >> >> Watching it now. I was just telling my wife jubilantly, "they just don't >> film movies like this anymore!" Nowadays director would have twenty >> thousand camera angles, and you'd never be able to follow the action. This >> thing is fast-paced and exciting as hell, but I can take it all in. >> >> Speaking of great car chase scenes, another all-time one is from "Ronin", >> one of my fav films. And I also love the classic pursuit of Batman's car in >> "Batman Begins". >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> >> To: "SciFiNoir2" <scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com> >> Sent: Saturday, February 6, 2010 9:01:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern >> Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight >> >> >> >> I'm there right now, waiting for that chase scene, Keith. "Bonnie and >> Clyde" I'll be passing on, as it aired just last month. "The French >> Connection", though, is a must, particularly since I picked up a bit of >> trivia about Gene Hackman's performance in it. In the scene where he roughs >> up the suspect, Hackman nearly quit the movie. An ardent liberal, he almost >> couldn't bring himself to do the scene. >> >> "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in >> bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com >> From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net >> Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 01:57:57 +0000 >> Subject: [scifinoir2] Great Action Flicks on TCM Tonight >> >> >> >> http://www.tcm.com/2010/31Days/index.jsp >> >> You know what? Forget SyFy Originals. Forget the eleventy-millionth airing >> of "Caprica". Blow off Lifetime Movies. Turner Classic Movies is airing a >> great block of films tonight. Starting at 8 pm EST, we have Steve McQueen >> in "Bullitt", with the man-of-few-words McQueen, and one of the great car >> chases of all time. That's followed at 10 pm by "The French Connection", >> with a typically intense Gene Hackman in one of the other great car chases >> of all time. And then, at midnight, it's "Bonnie and Clyde", Warren Beatty's >> violent New Hollywood tale of the famous robbers. >> >> The movies are part of TCM's "31 Days of Oscar", a month long airing of >> Oscar-wnning and -nominated films done every year. This is a great time to >> catch up on some of the best films of all time, from "Casablanca" to >> "Citizen Kane", from "Some Like it Hot", to "Cabin in the Sky". The good >> thing about TCM is that in addition to showing Oscar-nominated films, this >> being Black History Month, they also show a lot of classic Black film dating >> back to the '20s. Ethel Waters in "Cabin in the Sky" is just one example. >> It's about the only place I've seen this and many other of those films from >> that time. >> >> Gonna be a long fun night! >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up >> now. <http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > > > > -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
