Fantasy works best in cinema because film is fantasy - nothing we're seeing is actually real, so why pretend it is? Let's do away with that altogether, and embrace the possibilities of crazy costumes and sets and camera tricks.
I was surprised over and over again that things that appeared to be matte paintings actually had dimension - like the rocket itself. The fun of a certain kind of movie is trying to figure out what's real and what's a camera trick. And a camera trick is just like a magic trick - we should be wondering and guessing, "how did they do that?" Nowadays, there's none of that left. The answer is just "CGI. They did it on a computer." It's all animation. Nobody ever wonders how Bugs Bunny did that.
Movies have stopped being magic shows, and that's a shame.
I was surprised over and over again that things that appeared to be matte paintings actually had dimension - like the rocket itself. The fun of a certain kind of movie is trying to figure out what's real and what's a camera trick. And a camera trick is just like a magic trick - we should be wondering and guessing, "how did they do that?" Nowadays, there's none of that left. The answer is just "CGI. They did it on a computer." It's all animation. Nobody ever wonders how Bugs Bunny did that.
Movies have stopped being magic shows, and that's a shame.
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