Tag: film
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How Casino Royale's Ending Turns Bond Into Bond
“The whole point of Casino Royale is to get Bond to the last 20 minutes and then shatter him.”
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George Lucas's Bitter Legacy
“His entire career has been milking Star Wars and Indy, both gifts to him from his wife.”
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How Hollywood is Screwing Visual Effects Professionals
The forces of globalization (and greed) bankrupt Hollywood’s visual effects studios.
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A Glorious 'Benjamin Button' Takedown
A thorough skewering: “Written by Eric Roth, writer of Forrest Gump, the thing read as though a studio executive had come to Roth with the conceit – a man ages backwards – and the assignment to turn that conceit into Forrest Gump 2. Mission sort of accomplished. Consider: a southern boy born into a body […]
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How 'O Brother, Where Art Thou' Changed Filmmaking
A little film history: “Basically, they were Photoshopping every frame of the movie. That had never been done. Until O Brother. Of course, at that time, editing your movie on the computer wasn’t the absolute-given it is today. Hell, these days, major-ass movies are shot, edited, processed, and projected without ever involving film at all, […]