Today in Movie Culture: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' VFX Reel, Hologram Versions of Classic Movies
Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture: Visual Effects Reel of the Day: See why Star Wars: The Force Awakens was nominated for a visual effects Oscar today in this reel showing the making of practical and computer-generated spectacle: Cosplay of the Day: This is part of a great photo shoot of Rey cosplay from Star Wars: the Force Awakens. See more images at KamiKame. The Future of Movies? Watch a couple of guys make hologram re-creations of scenes from The Big Lebowski, Apocalypse Now and more (via Devour): Film History Lesson of the Day: Today is the 120th anniversary of the premiere of Birt Acres's Rough Sea at Dover, the first film publicly screened in England. Watch...
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- 1/15/2016
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Watching Chasing Mavericks, the silent-era smash hit Rough Sea at Dover springs strangely to mind, with those sweet stories of early movie goers looking for somewhere to run, as the incoming waves crash perilously close to the edges of their screen. Maybe we haven’t changed so much in the last hundred years, as we watch wide-eyed as the full colour, full sound immensity of the ocean dominates the screen for much of this movie.
The filmmakers boast “some of the most mind-blowing wave footage ever captured on film”, and co-directors Michael Apted and Curtis Hanson do not disappoint. The unbounded power of the ocean depicted here brings tremendous drama to the surfing scenes, and at times it seems the unpredictability of this force, so much greater than the tiny bodies tiptoeing on their boards, might actually snap in-two, bringing the story to an unexpected end.
But when the surf...
The filmmakers boast “some of the most mind-blowing wave footage ever captured on film”, and co-directors Michael Apted and Curtis Hanson do not disappoint. The unbounded power of the ocean depicted here brings tremendous drama to the surfing scenes, and at times it seems the unpredictability of this force, so much greater than the tiny bodies tiptoeing on their boards, might actually snap in-two, bringing the story to an unexpected end.
But when the surf...
- 7/4/2013
- by Georgia Fleury Reynolds
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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