 Originally Posted by fulci fan
I don't see what point you are trying to make. Do you work on movies or are you just a fan? Have you ever worked on fx for movies?
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Better than the most elaborate prosthetics? He was a god but his makeups were surpassed. I can tell you are an idiot based on that one comment. Don't talk about shit you don't know about......son
How to answer this question to best address the issue, not the flamer.
I'm 50 plus years old, and yes I have an Art School education (mainly in illustration ) and over the years have occasionally drawn a paycheck for my work. As for my love of film, for almost as long as I've been alive, while I am a fan (which isn't an insult )I've been one immersed in all aspects of the craft (from cinematography to scripting, matwork and makeup and music composition ) and I'm not afraid of new technology nor scornful of the older techniques either.
Again, if you look to people like Peter Jackson or Spielberg, or FXs experts like Stan Winston (we'll miss him )they all have/had great regard for those who came before, and respect as well.
The idiocy comes from the lack of understanding ( or so it seems )that often simplicity can achieve the same ends as elaboration. only because it's not the details that matter but the naturalness of the relationship between the subject and it's environment. In Jurassic Park, for example, I mention the lake scene only because it allowed the animals to truly be animals, and when the one hadrosaur turns its head to look back -Whoa.
I had a similiar attitude( which was damn stupid and arrogant )when I was younger, ridiculing painted movie backdrops, both sky and cityscapes, until one day I actually bothered to take a good long look at real life. On many days, the horizon can appear quite flat and artifical. That was a wakeup call for me about presumption.
As for my comments about Lon Chaney, I stand by it, for the basic reason that if he'd had the available material we have today, the man of a thousand faces would happily use them, just like Jack Pierce would with the current prosthetics. The fact that they didn't, makes the end product all that more amazing.
Oh, and Michael Crichton had an interesting notion in the novel Jurassic Park about those who build upon Previous Technology, Biotechnology or even, in this instance, Movie Special Effects. The certain arrogance of some, they miss a huge chunk of the history, both the people and the building of a process - in which the current trends will someday be as antiquated as folks seem to think the older techniques are.
But still, the most innovative minds in the film business mix and match the best from all generations.
That's what progress is.
Wayne Z
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